"Notre-Dame’s medieval artisans . . . represented a savoir-faire, or expertise, that has all but died out in the age of Ikea."
For GQ, Joshua Hammer tells the story of how an army of artisans turned back centuries to restore Notre-Dame by hand: https://www.gq.com/story/the-miraculous-resurrection-of-notre-dame
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