A
few weeks ago, a client asked me to organize a few pieces of
furniture used for storage purposes in her bookbinding studio.
Apart
from many other materials, my client mainly uses paper and wood, but
of course, daily use creates disorder, almost involuntary in nature,
and that is exactly the problem she faced. She told me that the
disorder makes her lose a great deal of time since it means she can
not find the materials she needs easily.
I
arrived at the luminous studio, an attic on Alcala Street
and
the client explained how she and her students worked on a daily basis
so that I could better understand the use of the furniture I would be
organizing. Following that, she showed me the first piece of
furniture: a metallic chest of drawers, five in total. Each drawer
had thousands of painted pieces of paper of different size and shape.
Many seemed delicate but especially, what I found in this first
drawer was a lot of variety. I felt it would be difficult to
categorize them in the most efficient manner. The only thing the
client specified was that these papers needed to remain in that
drawer- to my surprise this would make my job easier.
How
could I organize each drawer? My objective was to optimize
the space,
and to do so I began by tidying the contents. I
decided that the first step should be to
take
everything out of the drawer. As I took everything out, I categorized
the paper by size, shape and colour, so that they would form a
pyramid in the drawer.
Below
the first drawer before organizing it:
After
taking everything out and leaving the drawer empty I passed a sponge
over it so that it would be ready to be organized. I did this with
every drawer until the end.
Here
are the organized drawers:
The
next day I went back to complete the second phase of the project:
organizing two pieces of furniture. Shortly you will have the second
entry
recounting
the last part of the project.
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