01
Timber
CutPaintTest-assemble
The set
Elevations drawn at eye level, cut in our own workshop, test-assembled in the yard and finished before it travels. Joints nobody will ever see are still square.




Chapter VII · Craftsmanship
01
Timber
CutPaintTest-assemble
Elevations drawn at eye level, cut in our own workshop, test-assembled in the yard and finished before it travels. Joints nobody will ever see are still square.

02
Stem
SourceConditionInstall
Sourced at dawn, conditioned in a cold room, installed from the top of the set downwards. No stem is cut more than eighteen hours before a guest sees it, and the bench returns at first light to replace whatever the heat argued with.

03
Light
PlotFocusGrade
Faces first, set second. A gaffer walks every room with a meter, aiming fixtures at standing height and grading colour temperature to the hour the ceremony actually begins.

04
Salt
TasteRehearseServe
Menus cooked, eaten, argued over and re-cooked before they are offered. Service rehearsed to the written order of service so hot food arrives hot, together, at the right moment in the evening.

05
Cloth
LevelDressPolish
Linen pressed on site, tables shimmed level on grass, cutlery polished twice, candle heights set so nobody is looking through a flame at the person opposite them.

06
Sound
CoverBalanceCue
Coverage measured seat by seat rather than pointed at a crowd. A nikah should be audible in the last row without the first row flinching, and a dhol should arrive as a feeling rather than a volume.

07
Welcome
RouteGreetSeat
The route from car door to chair is designed as carefully as the stage: lit, level, shaded or warmed, staffed with people briefed by name on who needs helping.


Commission
Tell us what you are imagining. We will tell you which of these seven your evening will lean on.