CITIES
Street plans and park systems, seen from above and cut into satin brass.
Rome, Manhattan and London, at the scale of things you keep on a desk.
Bookmarks. Manhattan is Central Park, held in the grid that surrounds it. London is Green Park, St James's and Hyde Park read as one green run. Roma centres on the Vatican.
Pen trays take the same drawings at 20 by 8 centimetres, in solid satin brass with softened edges — Manhattan's grid and Roma's older, less obedient one.
Coasters put the two cities under a cup, sold in pairs.
The brass is precision-milled in Italy, then formed and finished in Berlin in a workshop that employs people with disabilities. Satin brass dulls as it is handled; that is the material behaving normally.
