I love my portable drawing cabinet, built by H. Gerstner & Sons in Dayton, Ohio about fifty years ago. It has developed into something of a Shop Shrine, a catch-all for small, meaningful, or valuable things- my treasures. I did not intend for this to happen, but now that I think of it I realize that most shops have some kind of unintended shrine, some place reserved for non-shop-related things, usually with kind of a feminine feel. I suppose the cliche of this is the ubiquitous pin-up. I think I will begin to collect images of these Shop Shrines. Please send one along if you know of any.
