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Issue 07  ·  Autumn 2026

Feature, pages 24 to 41. On thresholds, and the three steps after them.

Nine houses, nine front doors. A slow walk through the one wall a stranger is asked to pass, and what it tells you before a single room is seen.

Words by Odile Marchetti, photographs by Ren Asada

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“A door is the only wall you are invited to walk through.”

Halvard Ness, architect

Plate I

A walnut pivot door in a concrete box, left open at dusk.

Photograph: Ren Asada for Portico