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Invoice — Records Wall, Floor 14

A theatre scenery company billed Kokushi for a painted wall of filing drawers, with one hinged section, delivered to a floor that doesn't exist.

CaseF-044StatusDOCUMENT IN HAND
PeriodJul 1986Received viaAnonymous drop
Added04 Jul 2019Updated-
FilesTXT 3K, JPG 94K | Download as plain text (.txt)
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A hand pressed flat against the painted wall of identical drawers; light leaks around one section.
JPG 94K

The invoice

Issued by a Tokyo stage-scenery workshop that built sets for television and theatre between 1979 and 1993. Addressed to Kokushi Facilities, delivery 14F, service lift only.

ItemDescriptionQty
1Trompe-l’oeil flat, “records cabinet wall”, 8 × 6 drawer units, painted, aged1
2Concealed hinged section, 2 × 3 units, flush, no visible handle1
3Edge lighting, cold white, perimeter1 set
4Labels: blank, to match48

Paid in full, July 1986.

Why it matters

A hand pressed flat against the painted wall of identical drawers; light leaks around one section.
WORKSHOP ARCHIVE · "DURABILITY TEST, FINISHED FLAT"

Sources describe Floor 14’s records room as one wall of identical drawers. Every label blank. Nobody remembers opening one.

They couldn’t have. They were painted.

The hinged section is a door. I don’t know where it led. The workshop’s former owner told me only that the client asked for the paint to “stand up to a hand pressed flat against it, many times.”

The workshop’s ledger has a second order from the same client, for an identical flat, in 1998. Same dimensions, same hinged section, same blank labels. You don’t rebuild a door unless someone wore the first one out.


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