Decor

The store is the largest in a close-built row of other stores, formerly an indoor market. An overhang casts a shadow on the sidewalk, and from this overhang is hung a carved sign proclaiming simply, 'Ardel's'. Most of this storefront is occupied by a display window, showcasing recent or much-loved works. The door itself is wood-framed glass, and a small bell on the inside speaks of everyone to come and go. 

The floors are of polished red mahogany, with red and gold area rugs set beneath all furniture to protect the wood's finish. The walls are paneled similarly until reaching average chest height, whereupon they give way to porous gray stone, against which the paintings are displayed.

At night, lanterns in this style hung around the store are lit:

The artist's workspace is walled to the average waistline in a paneled manner similar to the regular walls. Above that, it is clean and transparent glass, that a customer might watch him at work. Simple double doors lead into the workspace and private areas of the store, presumably so as to more easily move stock between these areas and the show floor.

A large, standing clock of similar design to the lanterns, constructed chiefly of glass and ebony, sits in one corner of the room (#15 on the layout page), giving interested parties the correct time.

The paintings seem hung not in the interest of space, but with attention to perspective: to the left, paintings of darker themes; straight ahead, paintings of hope; to the right, paintings of his most positive, satisfied sort. Perhaps unfortunately, it is the left wall which is most crowded, the forward most empty, and the right smallest.