Chesa Studio/Journal
Journal
Working notes on materials, regions, restoration practice, and the decisions made before a drawing is started.
Research Note
Curatorial Restoration
Where contemporary art intelligence meets restoration practice.
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Research Note
Material Memory
What limewash, brass, copper, timber, stone, and textile can carry.
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Research Note
Project Narratives and Precedents
How Chesa turns evidence into direction.
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Field Note / Arrival Sequence
The Boot Room before the Foyer
Reschio's working answer, carried to a Connecticut hillside.
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Field Note / Heat And Mass
The Kachelofen in Connecticut
Specifying a floor-to-ceiling ceramic stove for a Litchfield County house.
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Field note / For the newly liquid
The Second Act House
After the windfall, the better instrument is a house that lowers your resting heart rate.
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Field Note / Materials
Why Lime
The case for hand-troweled lime in a Connecticut new build.
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