The pieces in this collection are not displayed. One is shown here as an example of what the collection contains. The rest are known only to those who have been told about them.
The objects in The Archive are significant enough that displaying them publicly would be inappropriate. They carry stories that belong to specific families, specific institutions, specific moments in history. They are not for general consumption.
The Archive is for people who already know they need a piece before they have seen it. For collectors. For institutions. For families who want to commission something of a scale and significance that does not belong on a public website.
Write to us. Tell us who you are and what you are looking for. If The Archive contains something appropriate for you, we will describe it. If it does not, we will tell you that too. The conversation is the access.
"The first entry in a company's original accounts book. The day the number went from zero to something. The day the institution formally began."
Before the company had a board. Before it had offices or employees or a product that anyone had heard of. Before it had any of the things that companies accumulate as they grow into institutions. It had a ledger. A book of accounts. And on a specific day, someone opened that book and made the first entry. A number. A date. A name. The beginning of a financial record that would eventually run to thousands of pages and measure the growth of something significant.
That first page is the most important page in the ledger. Not because the number was large. It was not. The first entry in almost every company that became an institution was small. It is important because it is the moment the company went from an idea to a fact. The moment someone began keeping score.
The painting shows what the founders saw when they looked out of the window on the day that entry was made. The city, the street, the view from the office or the room or the borrowed space where the first book was opened. The ledger page is embedded at the centre of the composition. The handwriting visible through the resin. The first number, on the first line, on the first day, permanently sealed inside the painting of everything that followed from it.
The first page of a company's original handwritten accounts ledger. The page that contains the founding entry. Supplied by the commissioner or sourced from the company's archive with their authorisation.
The number of pieces in The Archive is not disclosed. Some of what exists here has not been described to anyone outside of a direct conversation with the maker. Write to us if you believe something in The Archive belongs with you.
There is no form. There is no checklist. There is no process beyond writing to us honestly about what you are looking for and why. The Archive contains what it contains. Some of it will be right for you. Some of it will not. We will tell you which is which.
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"The most significant pieces we have ever made are not on this website. They are known only to the people who own them, and to us. That is how it should be."