Jack Boulton Roe

Oct 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Alec Scott |Jack Boulton Roe

Dominic Riley said he was stressed out. Some of his eight students at the San Francisco Center for the Book had discovered that the fireproof boxes they were constructing were too snug, making it difficult to slide the boxes on and off books from their own libraries. Between the classes this past summer, Mr. Riley had come up with an idea that he hoped would solve the problem: steaming the boxes over an electric kettle, so the moisture would expand them just a bit.

Sep 23, 2024 | nytimes.com | Rory Smith |Jack Boulton Roe

The temperature drops perceptibly as Doug Bierton discreetly sweeps the bracelet on his left wrist over a wall-mounted sensor and enters the vault. Like access to this locked room, the climate inside it is strictly controlled. To the uninitiated, this might seem excessive. Its contents are not jewels, or watches, or the treasures of some lost civilization. They are, instead, soccer jerseys: roughly 6,500 of them, hanging from great metal racks.