An air-conditioned agency, Great Portland Street.
An airy workshop, Leyton.
An ex-sorting office, New Oxford Street.
An email, a phone call.
Warm handshakes and mugs of tea.

Talk of ideas and inspiration.
Sharing sketches, picking through prototypes.
Seeing the Plan Desk hard at work.
And on pristine display.

Hand-made for hatching plans.
Chamfered edges, carefully shaped hand-holes.
Shallow drawers connected by crafty routing.
Walnut, oak, birch and Formica.

English white and Festival of Britain blue.
Tri-legged trestles and a tractor-seat stool.
Ready to receive laptops and layout pads.
Illuminated by an Anglepoise, perhaps.

Or warm sunlight, casting shadows just so.

Click here to view the design that inspired this piece of writing.

Writer: @snoxishere
Designer: jamestat.com
Illustrator: Assa Ariyoshi