Detailing for thesecond decade
Specifying for how a space will age, not only for how it will photograph on the day it completes.
Most interiors are judged in their first month. The decisions that matter are the ones that only reveal themselves later — where water sits, where a hand lands, which edge takes the wear.
Edges and junctions
A junction is the point at which two decisions have to agree. We draw them early, because a detail left to be resolved on site is a detail resolved by whoever is holding the tool that day.
“Permanence is a specification decision long before it is an aesthetic one.”
Choosing materials for how they age means accepting that some will change. Stone dulls, metal softens, timber moves. The question is whether the change reads as wear or as failure.
Designing for the second decade tends to produce calmer rooms in the first. The two are not in tension.
