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The rooms and the record

Eight photographs of rooms, surfaces and instruments. They show the setting the work happens in. None of them is work completed by Alder Crown Advisory, and none shows a client or a client's holdings.

I Place

One photograph, because the building is one arrival and not a tour.

  • Polished brass lift doors set into a marble lobby wall, lit from above.
    01 The lobby of the building the practice keeps its rooms in. It is the last public space a visitor passes through, and the only part of the walk that is not quiet.

II Materials

What the rooms are made of, at the distance you would actually notice it.

  • A slab of dark green marble with pale veining running across it.
    02 Green marble in the entrance hall, photographed close enough to lose the wall it belongs to. The building was finished long before the practice took rooms in it.
  • Deeply carved oak panelling showing heraldic animals in relief.
    03 Carved oak in the older half of the building, left as it was found rather than restored. The panels are not on public display; they are simply what the corridor is made of.
  • The corner of a dark navy leather book cover with a thin gold line tooled around its edge.
    04 Dark morocco with a gold fillet run around the board, from a binding about two hundred years old. It is the same restraint the practice uses on the paper it sends out.

III Conversation

The two rooms a first meeting happens in, and the door between them.

  • A gilded interior door with leaded coloured glass panels, photographed against dark panelling.
    05 Coloured glass on the door between the hall and the meeting room. It is closed for the length of a conversation, which is the only privacy measure a visitor actually sees.
  • A bare room with dark painted walls, a wooden floor, two tall windows and one long bench.
    06 A room kept for first meetings, with two windows, a bench and nothing else in it. Whatever is discussed here is discussed before any paperwork exists to put on a table.

IV Detail

Paper, which this practice still keeps more of than most.

  • Shelves of matched leather-bound volumes with gold tooling on their spines.
    07 A reference shelf, kept because paper does not go out of date quietly. Tax tables and rulebooks change, and a printed edition makes the year it belongs to obvious at a glance.
  • The spine of a cream and red bound letter book, stacked between other volumes.
    08 Bound letter books and ledgers, of the kind an estate file is still kept in. Most of the record is digital now, but an inventory two firms have to share is easier on paper.

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