Merdia Workshop’s Four-Bench Curio Shop

Field notes

The catalog is organized as four “benches,” separating brooches and hair flowers, jewelry, keyboards and numpads, and cases and utility. It lists 21 pieces in the first category, 13 in jewelry, seven in keyboards, and six in cases, with visible prices ranging from $4.98 to $94.99. Material terminology is unusually explicit: cards distinguish natural stone, created crystal, simulated pearl, silk and satin, and convoluted foam rather than presenting them as interchangeable luxury materials.