Place · The showroom and the back of the shop
The showroom
“Everything’s on display. Nothing’s in stock.”
In Always On the showroom is through a door from the workshop: a pale floor, coloured sofas, Ottoline on the sales floor, and a staff door. Today’s offer is “a sofa that is mostly corners.”
In Backrooms the showroom has no end: an office furniture showroom after closing, mono-yellow wallpaper, damp carpet, buzzing panels, price stands drifting into nonsense, and the Assistant. The Slopwright’s history puts it “behind the wall”.
Whether the two are the same shop is not on record. They do agree on what comes next: the stockroom.
The facts
- Kind
- Place
- World
- The showroom and the back of the shop
- Also called
- Showroom
- Appears in
- Always On, Backrooms
- People here
- Ottoline
- Ways out
- The workshop, The stockroom
- Level
- 1 of 3, then round again
- Ceiling
- 2.75 m
- Departments
- office, living, bedroom, kitchen, conference, reception, cafeteria, checkout, kids, lighting, warehouse, bathroom, doors, rugs
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Connections
- through a door from The workshop
- leads to The stockroom
- above The store basement
- Backrooms level one this
- Ottoline sells in this
- Staff door in this
- Poolrooms leads round to this
- The Assistant works in this
- Model 7 would fit in this
- The shop window faces the street in front of, perhaps this
- The wall has behind it this