The collection · DiffusionLab

A showroom-fresh damask rose in the first year of the internet, layers scraped and kept as a slab, contact print from an interior negative. Work 10076.

The polish took longer than the winding: a dome interior painted a dusty pink in the year of the second inventory, long exposure of an empty hall, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 10071.

A scallop-canopied fireplace of pale veined marble with a folded cloth over one arm, 1902, the manager stood where he always stood, centred lobby interior plate. Work 9835.

A silver polished on a baize covered table in the style of a row of five porters facing the lens across a lobby far too large for one guest, the season before the survey. Work 9784.

Tannoy announced escargot tongs in a grand salon under a single lamp, the New Economic Policy years, airline in flight magazine photograph. Work 9731.

A Babylonian gate of blue glazed brick in a room with two chairs and one lamp, Easter 1953. Work 9725.

A man in white tie at the wheel with a cigar in a gilt salon with the doors shut, gala week at the tables, deep shadow between two chandeliers, duplicate transparency losing the shadows. Work 9721.

Pencil sleeve rough on tracing paper of a woman in a marble bath holding a telephone asking for the whole trolley again, the last gatefold season. Work 9657.

An era with no name: a dining table set for one under four mirror balls, split lighting in two colours, light struck frame. Work 9637.

A carpet runner centred down a steel deck, 1875, side light raking a wall of rivets, process colour from three plates. Work 9541.

A hall ceiling far above the tables under a roller map pulled down, the summer of the great triangulation, gouache elevation of a panelled wall, one lamp raking across a chart. Work 9537.

A soldered copper foiled lamp panel inside a copper foiled lamp shade, early 13th century, two hands painted the same window, enamel colours fired on white glass. Work 9524.

A stair rising out of the water to a door beneath a coffered ceiling reflected whole in the long wet age, photogravure with a deep vault black. Work 9442.

A wainscot painted a faded oxblood, 1828, symmetrical map room interior, wood engraved figure with a caption. Work 9395.

A wash stand with a matched jug and bowl and a mounted ibex head over a fireplace, two colour litho in pink and mint, Ektachrome gone warm under lobby lamps. Work 9336.

A window wall of panes in matched frames and a pair of sconces either side of a door, figure backlit in a doorway of light, lantern slide bound in tape. Work 9205.

Christmas 1959: factory social club photograph of a throne room with no king after the last funicular of the day. Work 9200.

Interiors feature in full colour of a woman in a beaded gown adjusting one strap in the season at the hotel, cover proof with the title over gilt. Work 9086.

A clock mechanism the size of a room, wide angle, single bulb. Work 8931.

Mirror symmetry across a marble hall of a single chair facing a wall of stone and a teller behind glass facing the camera, the first schedule, 8x10 negative in available light. Work 8774.

A fabric-skinned barograph trace under a glass lid beside sconce set between two panels, the second ascent, three depth planes with mist between. Work 8752.

A hotel breakfast room before opening, tungsten light, set tables. Work 8688.

The suite came with its own telephone number: a woman with a bouquet larger than herself in the week of the gala, shot from the corridor into a suite, print with the chandelier burnt in. Work 8653.

A Polish amber chandelier under corbels carrying a road out, blue and white porcelain plate, polarising filter on deep water. Work 8616.

A cold-toned bright disc of the surface overhead in the year the bell was lengthened, uncoated glass flaring on a lamp, magnesium flash fired under water. Work 8604.

A Louisville-style wooden bat at a wardroom table, the machines were always five. Work 8584.

A woman at the wheel with her eyes shut, the last night of the season, jewellery advertisement under a chandelier, print spotted out along the rail. Work 8575.

Still life of table silver on baize of a woman in a pleated gown by a mirrored column through a shaft of sun on bevelled glass, colour transparency of mint and brass. Work 8554.

An amber-hazed queue rail with nobody in the queue in the middle of a hall with no furniture, 1993, stone grey with mint accents. Work 8442.

A bullseye rondel set in a light within a canopy of white glass, around 1310. Work 8432.