The Shelf / Volume II
The next wing · this autumn

Gardens of Knowledge

84 patterns from botanical archives, natural-history plates and the history of science - Haeckel's sea creatures, a blue found in 2009, the anatomy of a seed. The Knowledge wing of the library, cited to the paper and the plate.

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Reserve - we'll write when it opens Read a story from it

No pre-charge - a reservation is just a letter, held. Back to the shelf.

What it will hold

Planned: eighty-four, and mostly Knowledge.

The composition is chosen but the plates are still being redrawn and reviewed. This is the shape it's taking.

Patterns
84
planned
Wing
Knowledge
nature & science
Cited to
The plate
e.g. Haeckel, 1904
Opens
This autumn
a letter, not a charge
Reader placeYour number
After sign-inHeld
assigned when your studio existsNo. 214 carries over
Pigment
YInMn
the modern-wing blue
What the 84 will be - the Knowledge wing, with a few commissioned hands
Knowledge · 64 - archives & plates Artists · 12 - commissioned Civilizations · 8 - the botanical old world
Three ways into the same library
The Library
Read every pattern's story, free.
The Shelf
Own the volumes, wing by wing.
The Workshop
Hold the materials behind them.