What a 1908 Croix-Rousse ceiling taught us about storage.
The canut builders hid a full winter’s silk storage above a false cornice, and their trick still beats a fitted wardrobe.
The Journal · Published, not scheduled
Notes from the site, written between coats of primer.
What we learn in Lyon’s buildings, room by room. No release schedule, no filler; some months the site teaches nothing printable.
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The case against the open plan, in three Lyon apartments.
Three clients asked us to remove every wall; we talked two of them out of it, and the third thanked us in February when the heating bill came.
Limewash, and other finishes that forgive.
A wall that can be touched up with a brush ages better than a wall that must be repainted corner to corner.