The workshop
Cold grey light, wood shavings, a dog asleep by the drawers
A cabinetmaker's workshop on an overcast afternoon: a plane and a drift of curled shavings across a scarred bench, an open notebook of chair drawings weighted flat, chisels ranked on the wall behind. The old retriever has given up on the day and gone to sleep under the card-index cabinet, and nothing here is in a hurry.
Workshop, Day, Overcast, Focused, Making, Cold light, Bright, Mid-century
In this room
- A journal: what you write stays in the room, and only the people you choose can read it.
- A sound of its own — rain, a fire, a radio station to leave playing.
- A clock that keeps your time.
- A window with the real weather where you are.
- A note for the day, where you will see it.
- Frames for your own photographs.
- An assistant that knows the room and what you keep in it.
- A lamp that turns the room from light to dark.
- The lamps give a soft glow.
- After dark the same room has a night of its own, with its own light.