We had gotten some free laminate samples. Those we used when furnishing the space. We created a shelving system out of DIN A4-sized samples by laminating the whole 2003 colour range onto pieces of beech plywood. The plywood pieces were laminated on both sides. Thus the 96 different colour samples were transformed into 16 shelves, as three pieces of plywood in different ways would be attached to each other. As the laminated plywood pieces were identical in size, there would be an emphasis on the grammar of their combinations. The shelves would be mounted in a way that corresponded to the corner of the room they occupied. The colour corner could be seen as a playfully updated version of the white cube.

Apart from the shelves, we made furniture out thrown-out materials which we found in the vicinity. The most sophisticated tool we had was an electric drill. The top for the bar came from a fake biedermeirer style table in oak. It took us five hours to saw it out. The legs of the biedermeirer table were used to make a hifi-table. We found two kitchen cupboards which we turned into tables by using the door as a tabletop. When visiting Lone to borrow her digital camera, we got her old bookshelf and turned it into stools. Both the table and stools had practical shelves under them, which also had the function of stabilizing the construction. We made some benches that were so elegantly slender in their design that we continuously had to repair them. Smaller laminate samples, of the size 60 x 90 mm, were used to create a font to write signs in Esperanto.

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