The Story
Ten drawers,
nothing tidied
A cabinet of curiosities works because the objects have nothing to do with each other and everything to do with the person who kept them. This set is built on the same principle and held together by a single rule: one material may repeat, but never at the same size. The gold appears three times — torn as leaf, drawn as a lead line, crushed as dust — and never twice at the same scale. Break that rule and ten drawers become wallpaper.
The leaded panel is the piece the atelier is proudest of. It is drawn first, in a gold liner held almost vertical so the line stands proud, and then each cell is flooded separately with an amber tinted a shade apart from its neighbours and left to level on its own. It has to dry flat without the colours meeting, which is why it lives on two tips and not on ten. The shards elsewhere are set on their edges rather than laid on their backs, so the fire arrives from the side of the nail as the hand turns instead of flashing straight up at the ceiling.
One material may repeat. Never at the same size.