Links to the sea

“A long time ago, Pete Bossley and I used to laugh about Palladio, whose books wrote [the letter] S as an F,” says Auckland architect Pip Cheshire of the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio and the typographical quirk so common in manuscripts of that era. “So, we would joke about what Palladio would call the ‘neceffary’ rooms. You would have, for example, the Villa Rotonda … which would have all these beautiful salons, and there were kind of interstitial spaces that were ‘neceffary’ — one presumes there would be kitchens or toilets in there — instead of ‘capital’ rooms.

“I was interested in what would happen if