How much of everything a party actually needs
Forty guests, four hours, and the six numbers that decide whether the evening runs smoothly or somebody is rinsing cups at nine.
13 min read
Patelai journal
Three long pieces about the things this catalogue is actually about: how much of anything a party needs, what a pack of a hundred is really worth against a pack of ten, and how much material a making project eats before it is finished. Written in house, with the arithmetic left in.
What a pack of a hundred is actually worth
The price on the shelf is the wrong number to compare. Here is the right one, where the saving really comes from, and the three cases where buying a hundred is a mistake.
12 min read
How much material a making project actually eats
The mould says it holds sixty grams. The pour needs ninety. This is where the difference goes, and how to buy for the project rather than for the piece.
12 min readEach piece links to the products it is written around, and every one of those pages carries the same pack size and per piece figures. The whole catalogue is on Patelai.