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Plate 2 · Around the desk

The office

The room around the desk: where I sit, what prints, and the air in between.

8 slots · 5 picked · 3 open · The key ↓

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Plate 2 · The office, in plan
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1 of 3 · Where I sit

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

William Morris · The Beauty of Life · 1880

The furniture of the working day: sat at, sat on, lit and shelved.

Desk

Compel Standing Desk

Picked · ★★★★☆ · $1,500 / one-time · Catalog ↳

A Compel sit-stand desk from an office liquidation. The model is no longer made, and any standing desk would do the same job.

Chair

Embody Chair Herman Miller

Picked · ★★★★★ · $2,255 / one-time · Catalog ↳

A true beauty with great back and lumbar support and a strong copper-infused cooling foam seat built for life's long haul.

Desk lamp

Open.

Nothing has earned this job yet

Nothing has earned this job yet. The slot stays empty until something does.

Shelving

Open.

Nothing has earned this job yet

Nothing has earned this job yet. The slot stays empty until something does.

2 of 3 · What prints

…printing, gunpowder, and the compass. For these three have changed the appearance and state of the whole world.

Francis Bacon · Novum Organum · 1620

Paper for the record; prints for the wall.

Printer

Brother HL-L2360D

Picked · ★★★★★ · $200 / decade+ · Catalog ↳

Ol' reliable printer that simply prints without software updates or fuss.

Photo printer

SELPHY CP1500 Wireless Compact Photo Printer Canon

Picked · ★★★★☆ · Baby Printer · Catalog ↳

The paper isn't cheap, but that's to be expected with this quick-print, polaroid-novelty type device.

3 of 3 · The air in between

The very first canon of nursing … is this: TO KEEP THE AIR HE BREATHES AS PURE AS THE EXTERNAL AIR, WITHOUT CHILLING HIM.

Florence Nightingale · Notes on Nursing · 1859

The quiet infrastructure: clean air, and power that doesn’t blink.

Air purifier

Dyson Purifier HP02

Picked · ★★★★★ · $450 / one-time · Catalog ↳

Dyson's three-in-one — HEPA air purifier, heater, and bladeless cooling fan, with app and remote control (Hot+Cool Link HP02).

Power backup

Open.

Nothing has earned this job yet

Nothing has earned this job yet. The slot stays empty until something does.

Lights out

Eight slots in the office: five held, three open.

The open ones wait for something worth buying once.

Plate 2 · The office, in plan

Key to the plate

Every job in the office, in the order the walk takes them. The number is the one on the plate.

Where I sit

  1. No. 01 Desk Compel Standing Desk ★★★★☆ · $1,500 / one-time
  2. No. 02 Chair Embody Chair Herman Miller ★★★★★ · $2,255 / one-time
  3. No. 03 Desk lamp Open.
  4. No. 04 Shelving Open.

What prints

  1. No. 05 Printer Brother HL-L2360D ★★★★★ · $200 / decade+
  2. No. 06 Photo printer SELPHY CP1500 Wireless Compact Photo Printer Canon ★★★★☆ · Baby Printer

The air in between

  1. No. 07 Air purifier Dyson Purifier HP02 ★★★★★ · $450 / one-time
  2. No. 08 Power backup Open.

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