La Maison de Fêtes A · After-Dark Botany
After-Dark Botany — the painting this suite's approved direction was drawn from.
The Delivered Suite · 2026
VA
A · After-Dark Botany

VESPERAfter-Dark Botany

Thirteen pieces · Two carry a name

OccasionBrand Launch
Date15 October 2026
VenueThe Palm House
PiecesThirteen
The finished suite

Thirteen pieces. And then one for every guest.

Every piece below is the delivered artwork, not a mock-up of it. The panel is live: put a name in it and watch each piece that carries a name take it, exactly as it does in a real print run.

The pieces that read the same for the whole room carry no name at all — and we say so.

The palette

Six colours. One world.

Ground#101812
Ground Deep#0B120E
Ground Raised#17211A
Ink#EFE9DC
Ink Dim#8A9188
Amber#E8962E

Not decoration — every one of these has a job, and they are the same inks the pieces below are printed in.

The voices

Two voices. One suite.

Aa

MarcellusThe voice that names

Aa

JostThe voice that explains
The pieces are listening.

Envelope Sp. No. 01

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What the platform sets

First contact. One gesture only — the gilded edge — and printed addressing. The liner delivers what this promises.

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones. The platform simply sets each guest's own.

{{GUEST_NAME}}

Each guest's own code — live, and it scans. No piece in this suite carries a zone for it, so it reaches the guest through their personal link.

Format133 × 184 mm

Envelope Liner Sp. No. 02

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A shared piece

The room the window opens onto. No text at all — this one is felt, not read.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format133 × 184 mm

Save the Date Sp. No. 03

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A shared piece

The hour, announced early. The mark and the date only; the venue detail is held back for the invitation.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format127 × 178 mm

The Evening Sp. No. 04

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A shared piece

Four hours and no more, on the invitation's own trim so it travels in the same envelope. The copy states each hour and never sells it — nothing here invites, thanks or explains.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format127 × 178 mm

The Composition Sp. No. 05

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A shared piece

The one piece that says what the product is: top, heart and base, one note to a line. It is read slowest, so it is decorated least — the mark at 12 mm, one gilded edge, one hairline.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format127 × 178 mm

Drinks Sp. No. 06

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A shared piece

Read at the bar over a whole evening, so the field is left clear. The house's own cocktail leads; the mark stays at the header and never enters the reading zone.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format102 × 178 mm

Supper Sp. No. 07

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A shared piece

The drinks card's twin, on the same tall narrow trim. Its sections are hours rather than courses — the evening is what a guest is following, and this world contains no course markers.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format102 × 229 mm

Place Card Sp. No. 08

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What the platform sets

One name, the mark, and the same gilded edge as everything else — at 0.8 mm it cannot crowd the name.

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones. The platform simply sets each guest's own.

{{GUEST_NAME}}

Format102 × 229 mm

Table Number Sp. No. 09

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A shared piece

Read from across the room. The numeral is the whole design; the mark is set aside entirely.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format89 × 51 mm

The Tables Sp. No. 10

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A shared piece

Forty-eight guests over eight tables, at A1 rather than the signage's board because it is read at arm's length by one guest looking for one name. The tables are numbered and not named, so a guest looks for the same numeral the table itself carries.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format102 × 127 mm

Thank You Sp. No. 11

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A shared piece

The window after the light has gone out — the one piece with no amber anywhere, on a warmer ground, with room left to write.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format594 × 841 mm

Welcome Signage Sp. No. 12

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A shared piece

The invitation scaled up rather than a small piece blown up. The bloom is debossed into the panel at 266 mm.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format127 × 127 mm

Launch Page Sp. No. 13

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A shared piece

The card at screen scale: the page absorbs the light and the single amber event is the reply.

It reads the same for the whole room, so it prints once.

no placeholders

Format610 × 914 mm
The gang sheet

One approved design. One impression per guest.

Every impression below is the same delivered file — Place Card — with a different guest's name set into it, exactly as it comes off a real run. Not a mock-up: it is the piece shown above, personalised by the same code. The names are examples.

12 guests shown across 12 sheets. A real list simply continues — one run, one file per guest.

What that is worth on the day

The part you cannot see from a photograph

13

Print files, not templates

The thirteen designs above are delivered as print-ready files — at the true trim size, with the backgrounds and the fonts the printer expects. The two that carry a name become a personalised file for every guest on the list.

02

Only what should carry a name

Two of the thirteen pieces carry a name. The rest read the same for the whole room, so they print once — and each one says so.

1:2

One code, two jobs

Each guest's own code opens their own page. The same code, read at the door, marks them arrived — so the host knows who is in the room without a clipboard.

1:∞

A chart that redraws itself

The table numbers above are generated from the event's own list, not typeset one at a time. The seating chart is drawn in the portal from that same list, so moving a guest between tables is a change of one field — not a new piece of artwork.

The invitation is also a page

The same card, at the same guest’s link, with a reply panel drawn into it. Not a separate digital version in a different style — the design itself, continued.