LES MATIÈRES

Ce qui est donné. Ce qui peut être trouvé. Ce qui peut prendre forme.

MATIÈRE — gold, silver, porcelain, stone, timber
FORME — crown, vessel, gate, column, sphere
LIEU — mountain, harbor, court, garden, road
HÉRITAGE — inherited forms, stories, customs, monuments
MERVEILLES — the Seven Wonders as civilization-scale compositions
TROUVER — the Atelier's operation: finding the form latent among available things

Availability is broader than physical inventory. Gold and porcelain are materials, but so are a crown's form, a city's position, the geometry of a garden, the memory of a vanished monument, the inherited idea of a court,