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Almost always it says \"people in a hurry live here.\" The entryway is the one wall you see every single day from the door, and — oddly enough — the one almost nobody ever gets around to deciding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBay laurel has been working entrances for thousands of years\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name of the series isn't decoration. \u003cem\u003eThreshold Herbarium\u003c\/em\u003e is \u003cstrong\u003eumbel\u003c\/strong\u003e plants for the \u003cstrong\u003ethreshold\u003c\/strong\u003e of a home: the entry, the hall, the wall you pass through rather than stay in. Umbel and threshold share a root and share a job — both of them open. Bay leads the trio because it has been opening doors far longer than we have: it's the leaf of the crown, the one hung at the entrance for whoever came home. \u003cem\u003eLaurus nobilis\u003c\/em\u003e. The \u003cem\u003enobilis\u003c\/em\u003e isn't decoration either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere it isn't painted — it's measured. The leaf in eucalyptus green carries its two dimensions (38 where it narrows, 112 where it opens) and, to the right, a scale bar from 0 to 10 cm in case you want to check. The volume isn't flat fill: it's stippling, dot by dot, thousands of dots that crowd where the leaf curves and loosen where it turns. From the door you see a branch. From sixteen inches away you see the work. An entryway gets looked at in exactly those two ways: in passing on the way in, and standing still while you hunt for your keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in — $39\u003c\/strong\u003e: for a narrow wall, the gap between doors, or above a low console.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e20 × 28 in — $89\u003c\/strong\u003e: when the entry can carry a piece that leads, and is visible from the living room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format. For the wall you look at from the sofa and that has nothing on it today. At this size the dimensions and figures read standing up, from across the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoose print, unframed.\u003c\/strong\u003e You choose the frame — you're the one who knows that wall. We don't decide it for you, and we don't charge you for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e No sheen, and here it matters: the stippling stays readable. Under a satin finish, the reflection of the hall light would swallow it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, one at a time. There's no box with your print gathering dust in a warehouse. On your wall in 6-8 business days.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt eye level, facing the door. The first week you'll see it every time you come in; within a month you'll stop noticing it, and that's exactly the sign it's hung right. All three of the \u003cem\u003eThreshold Herbarium\u003c\/em\u003e are $99, made for that same walk-through wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"gpsr\"\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eProduct safety and care\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003ePrinted paper art print. \u003cstrong\u003eNot suitable for children under 3\u003c\/strong\u003e — sharp edges, and the packaging is a suffocation hazard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSold \u003cstrong\u003eunframed and without glass\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eKeep away from moisture and direct sunlight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eSold by VEXA, S.C. · Carrer Cronista Pareja 10, floor 1, door 2, 46650 Canals (Valencia), Spain · \u003ca href=\"mailto:vexaprojectcj@gmail.com\"\u003evexaprojectcj@gmail.com\u003c\/a\u003e. 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And still, you walk past it more times than any other wall in the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you cross forty times a day has to survive the fortieth\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRosemary is the plant of the edge: it grows where the path narrows, on the verge, on the margin, in the place you pass through. Which is why it's piece II of the \u003cem\u003eThreshold Herbarium\u003c\/em\u003e, the series made for the threshold of a home — that pass-through wall nobody claims. And it has been, since Shakespeare at least, the herb of memory: \u003cem\u003e\"there's rosemary, that's for remembrance,\"\u003c\/em\u003e says Ophelia. Hang it in the place you walk through and it keeps doing what it has done for centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe print doesn't draw it as a flower but as a structure: three needle-leaf stems — needle, not leaf — combed vertically, the middle one in eucalyptus green. To the right, a window hatched at 34° where a single 0.7 in leaf appears magnified three times, so you can see what you miss in passing. That's the deal this piece makes: it reads whole from the far end of the hallway and keeps a detail back for the day you stop. The first time you see three stems. The fortieth you see a 0.7 in needle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in — $39\u003c\/strong\u003e: hallway size. It reads up close and in motion, which is how a hallway gets looked at.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e20 × 28 in — $89\u003c\/strong\u003e: for a wide hallway, or so the piece carries into the room at the end.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format. For the wall you look at from the sofa and that has nothing on it today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLoose print, unframed.\u003c\/strong\u003e Frame it your way or hang it as it comes. You don't pay for a frame you may not have wanted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUncoated matte paper, 80 lb (200 gsm).\u003c\/strong\u003e A hallway usually has the light fixture right above it: matte doesn't hand you the bulb back every time you walk by.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/strong\u003e, one at a time. No dead stock. On your wall in 6-8 business days, so the hallway stops being pending right now.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo or three pieces at regular intervals create rhythm in a long hallway; a single one, centered, puts a full stop on a short one. 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And those five feet wait another year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eUmbel and threshold share a root, and share a job: opening\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFennel is the umbel par excellence: the flower that opens like a fan from a single node. That's where the name of the whole series comes from — \u003cem\u003eThreshold Herbarium\u003c\/em\u003e, umbel plants for the threshold of a home — and that's why fennel closes it. It does most literally what the piece is asked to do: open a narrow spot. It doesn't fill it; it opens it, which isn't the same thing and you feel the difference walking in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's drawn as a diagram, not a botanical plate: \u003cstrong\u003e21 rays\u003c\/strong\u003e counted from a single node, each one ending in its own umbellet — a small umbel with rays of its own — all inside a reference circle labeled \u003cem\u003er = 300\u003c\/em\u003e. Below, a density sample of the umbel: the hatching that explains how the dots are distributed across the rest of the sheet. The eucalyptus green lands on just a few umbellets, and that's where the eye enters. It's the airiest of the three, and on a pass-through wall air is worth more than detail: it reads whole at a glance, from the door, without stopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e12 × 16 in — $39\u003c\/strong\u003e: it fits a narrow gap without eating it, which is exactly an entryway's problem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e20 × 28 in — $89\u003c\/strong\u003e: here the umbel really opens. For the stretch of wall that can take a large piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e28 × 40 in — $139\u003c\/strong\u003e: the large format. 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