Two chairs, one honest grade.
Gavelo began because the renders coming back to local firms looked like plastic. Flat skies, grass that tiled, chrome where glass should be. Clients couldn’t picture the real thing, and juries could tell. So we started doing it the slow way — reading the drawings, matching the light to the latitude, and checking the parts nobody notices until they’re wrong.
Ten years on, the setup hasn’t changed much. Two people, a wall of monitors, and a short client list we can give full attention. We’d rather turn away a job than hand it to a stranger overseas and hope.
Most of our work is competition and presentation sets for residential and mixed-use projects — the images a firm leans on to get the room to say yes. We treat them like that matters, because for the architect, it does.
— the frame is only as honest as the light.
