Authors
The writers and thinkers the wiki reads closely — the voices behind its five domains, and what it takes from each.
Daisy Fancourt
beauty · cross-domain
The epidemiologist whose Art Cure makes the empirical case that engagement with the arts is a pillar of health.
Elaine Scarry
beauty
Author of On Beauty and Being Just, who argues that beauty is an apprenticeship in justice.
Geneviève Antoine Dariaux
dress
The directrice of Nina Ricci whose Guide to Elegance gives the wiki its six principles of dress.
Mark Dooley
philosophy
Scruton's biographer and interlocutor, author of Conversations with Roger Scruton.
Roger Scruton
1944–2020
beauty · music · philosophy
The wiki's central philosopher of beauty, music, and the cultivated life.
Francis-Noël Thomas & Mark Turner
philosophy
Authors of Clear and Simple as the Truth, who treat classic prose style as a discipline of selection.
Edith Wharton & Ogden Codman Jr.
interiors
Authors of The Decoration of Houses, who argued that a room is a problem in proportion before it is a problem in decoration.