Cross Sections

From the shade. Letters on shelter, stone, and the rooms we live in.The next one comes to the crate first.

Woodcut of Ferrante Imperato’s cabinet in Naples, 1599, its ceiling covered in specimens and its walls in cabinets

NewNo. 05 · October 2026

junk drawer or wonder cabinet?

What a 1600s room of wonder can teach the rooms you live in.

Read the letter

Every letter

5 so far

No. 04Letter who styled your home: the catalog or you? Read → No. 03Letter don't track the day in. Read → No. 02Letter you learned shelter before you had a word for it. Read → No. 01Letter shade needs sun. Read →