Patina is just Time made Visible
There’s something I keep coming back to when I think about the rooms that have stayed with me over the years. The ones that felt genuinely soothing rather than simply well put together. The ones where something in you just… exhaled. Those are always the rooms I remember. And they almost always had materials with a past. Not always obviously. Not always dramatically reclaimed or salvaged in any conspicuous way. But there was usually something — a floor that had been walk
