This episode is about the surprises suspended in cool archival materials, and the allure of that. It is also about the wave of luxury design magazines from the turn of the millennium, from Purple magazine to the Williams Sonoma catalogue, and especially the bizarre and beautiful Nest magazine.

Visiting poet Lisa Robertson's archive revealed to me what historian Arlette Farge called "The Allure of the Archives." I encountered something nostalgic, Farge found something beautiful. We both encountered surprises. A gallery of this images and a transcript are at robinmitchellcranfield.com