The edit
Edited, not endless.
There is no algorithm here and no infinite catalogue. What is in the shop is what we would put in our own rooms, at prices that make sense for an apartment or a first house rather than a showroom.
You are looking at the whole thing, not the first page of it. That is the point of an edit: if it is here, somebody decided it should be.
How products enter and leave the store
In. Something is added when it does one job well at a price that is defensible. We look at what it is made of, what it costs to get to you, and whether it survives being used rather than photographed.
Out. Products leave when they stop selling, when the supplier stops being reliable, or when we find a better version of the same idea. Nothing stays in the shop to make the catalogue look bigger.
Never. We do not run a permanent sale, we do not invent a countdown, and we do not mark something a bestseller before anyone has bought it.
Who ships it. Most pieces come direct from the brand or the workshop that makes them, so they leave one warehouse instead of being handled twice. The prints are made to order by our print partner. A few pieces travel further, and the ones that do say so on their own page with the longer window on them, rather than in an email after you have paid.
What we will not claim. Every product page says what the piece is good for and what it is not. If we do not know a dimension, a material or a lead time, the page says so rather than guessing, because a spec invented to fill a gap is the one you find out about after it arrives.
What arrives
It depends on the piece, and the product page says which.
Sourced pieces. Lighting, textiles, rugs, objects and furniture arrive in the maker's own packaging, direct from the brand. Flat-packed lighting says so on its page. Anything that needs assembly says that too, along with how much.
Prints. A sheet, rolled, unframed. No frame, no glass, no mount. The print is made when you order it, checked, rolled and posted in a rigid tube.
Delivery windows and returns are on one page rather than scattered through the small print.
OVREL Editions
Two editions of the art, and we say which is which.
Studio Edition is OVREL's own work. Eight originals, printed at two sizes, both cut to the artwork's own 4:5 proportion so nothing is cropped to fit a frame. They are not reproductions of anything, they are not public domain, and the copyright stays with OVREL.
Archive Edition is the opposite arrangement, stated just as plainly. Eighteen Japanese woodblock prints held by the Metropolitan Museum, which photographed the impressions and released the files under Open Access — meaning they are free for anyone to use, including you.
So it is worth being straight about what you pay for there, because it is not access to the image. It is the selection: eighteen sheets pulled out of tens of thousands. It is the printing: giclée pigment on 200gsm enhanced matte art paper, at a size and crop chosen for the work rather than for a frame you already own. And it is not having to do any of it yourself. Every archive plate names the artist and links to the museum's record for the exact object we printed from. If you would rather download the file and print it locally, that link is how you start. We would still rather you bought the sheet.
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OVREL is run by one person. The work is chosen and the messages are answered by the same person, so if something is wrong with an order you are writing to whoever can actually fix it.
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