A football occupies the cabinet with the ease of a decorative object. Nearby are photography books, a small bust and a game board. A flowering branch reaches into the empty space above. The arrangement gives the room a character before anyone enters it.
Across the studio, the garment rail changes the scale. Black jackets and pale shirts hang beside scarves in club colours. Shoes sit close to the floor. The room allows these pieces to be considered together, at the distance at which they might actually be worn.
The photographs record several views of the same working world. On one table, flowers soften the hard edge of marble. On the wall, the name of The Proper Label appears above clothes still waiting for attention. There is room between the objects, and that space makes their relationships easier to see.
For the House, football belongs in this everyday setting. It can sit beside a book on photography or enter a conversation about the fall of a jacket. These are ordinary studio arrangements, photographed as part of the life around the collections.
From the House archive · The Proper Label®
