# AXIS DECK: era (time layer). 15 cards, ERA01-ERA15. All original writing.
# deck-description: Era or time layer. When the place sits in time, and which layers of time remain legible.

## ERA01 | Centuries of Use
short: Deep Time
essence: centuries of accumulated use
text: Set the place deep in time: centuries of use, each generation adding a layer and removing nothing, so that the newest thing is already a decade old and the oldest has become indistinguishable from the ground.
excludes: OCC01, OCC02, MAT04, MAT14, MAT16, LGT10

## ERA02 | Imperial Dusk
short: Imperial Dusk
essence: the evening of an old empire's confidence
text: Set it in the evening of an old empire's confidence: ornament still lavish, ceremony still practised, and a faint awareness that the music cannot continue at this volume for long.
registers: luxury, civic, devotional, dignified
excludes: MAT04, MAT14, MAT16, LGT10, LGT14

## ERA03 | Interwar Optimism
short: Between the Wars
essence: the bright speed of the 1920s and 1930s
text: Set it between the wars, in the bright speed of the 1920s and 1930s: new materials, new dances, wireless voices, streamlined hope, and the dark edge that always travels with it.

## ERA04 | Austerity Glamour
short: Austerity Glamour
essence: style as an act of will in the first lean years after upheaval
text: Set it in the first lean years after a great upheaval, when little is available and style is therefore an act of will: remade clothes, carefully rationed beauty and a ferocious appetite for evenings out.
registers: dignified, lived-in, playful, craft

## ERA05 | Midcentury Confidence
short: Midcentury
essence: the confident middle of the twentieth century
text: Set it in the confident middle of the twentieth century: new houses, big picture windows, optimism in curved plywood and glossy colour, and manners still performing.

## ERA06 | Long Seventies
short: Long Seventies
essence: the loosened warmth of the long 1970s
text: Set it in the long 1970s: warm earth colours, soft light, long hair and longer evenings, low furniture and lower voices, a loosening of rules that has not yet become a hangover.

## ERA07 | Eighties Gloss
short: Eighties Gloss
essence: the glass, chrome and lacquer of the 1980s
text: Set it in the 1980s: glass, chrome and lacquer, shoulders and power, money newly visible and neon on every wet street.

## ERA08 | Nineties Threshold
short: Nineties
essence: the beige machines and held breath of the 1990s
text: Set it in the 1990s: beige machines, cool tube-light, the first mobile telephones, minimalism arriving as a new religion and a sense that something enormous is about to start.

## ERA09 | Early Millennium Sheen
short: Millennium Sheen
essence: the frosted glass and brushed steel of the early 2000s
text: Set it in the early 2000s: frosted glass, brushed steel, low-slung everything, lounge music and the confidence of a decade that has not yet been disappointed.

## ERA10 | Unmarked Present
short: Present Day
essence: an unmarked present
text: Set it in an unmarked present: no period flourishes beyond the ones people actually keep, tools within reach of any hand, and style carried by choices rather than by a decade's costume.

## ERA11 | Near Future, Patched In
short: Near Future
essence: a near future fitted gently into old rooms
text: Set it a few years ahead of now, where new systems have been fitted gently into old rooms: faint glows, quiet automatic courtesies and a stubborn preference for what hands can mend.

## ERA12 | Palimpsest
short: Palimpsest
essence: every decade left legible
text: Let every decade stay legible: a ceiling from one century, a floor from another, wiring from a third, so that the place reads as a conversation among its owners across time.
excludes: OCC01, OCC02

## ERA13 | Undated
short: Undated
essence: a place with no clock the eye can read
text: Leave the place undated: no clock the eye can read, no costume an era can claim, only the old permanence of fire, water, cloth and a table.
excludes: MAT04, MAT14, MAT16, LGT10, LGT14

## ERA14 | The Year It Ends
short: Last Season
essence: the last season of something
text: Set it in the last season of something, the final year of a shop, a line, a family's tenure, so that every ordinary act carries the faint ceremony of being among the last.
registers: dignified, lived-in, craft, civic, playful
excludes: OCC01, OCC02, OCC12

## ERA15 | Long-Settled Future
short: Settled Future
essence: a far future so long settled that custom has grown back
text: Set it in a far future so long settled that custom has grown back: ceremony, dress and manners have returned, and technology is lived with as lightly as weather.
fantastical: yes
registers: luxury, civic, playful
