The ring of hands round the table — the drawing's empty middle holds the words.
B · Elbows In

Nessa & RubenThe Hundredth Sunday

Ten pieces, in the order a guest meets them.

OccasionSunday dinner — the hundredth
DateSunday 8 November 2026
VenueRua da Bica de Duarte Belo 47, 3.º · Lisbon
Guests26 — at a table that seats fourteen
PiecesTen
Before the guests

B · Elbows In

The finished suite

Ten pieces. And then one for every guest.

Every piece below is the delivered artwork, not a mock-up of it. The panel is live: put a name in it and watch each piece that carries a name take it, exactly as it does in a real print run.

The pieces that read the same for the whole room carry no name at all — and we say so.

The pieces are listening.
It arrives

Envelope

One design here

no placeholders

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In the hand

Invitation

Delivered here as one design.

One design here

Delivered here as one design. It is a piece the platform personalises per guest wherever a suite ships its platform edition.

no placeholders

Each guest's own code — live, and it scans. No piece in this suite carries a zone for it, so it reaches the guest through their personal link.

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That evening, at home

Their own link

The same card. And also a page.

At the guest's own link the platform renders Invitation — this file, not a separate digital version — and adds a reply panel to it. On the left, as it prints, with no trace of the panel. On the right, as it opens.

As it prints
As it opens at their link

The panel is injected by the platform, not drawn by the design, and the printed card carries no trace of it. The right-hand state shows how it reads; for the platform to compose it into this piece, the file declares the empty container the Living Invitation expects.

The reply

RSVP Card

One design here

no placeholders

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At the door

Door Card

A shared piece

no placeholders

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At the table

Place Cards

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones.

What the platform sets

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones. The platform simply sets each guest's own.

{{GUEST_NAME}}

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Across the room

Table Markers

Not every piece should be personalised.

A shared piece

Not every piece should be personalised. This one reads the same for the whole room, so it carries no placeholders — one design, one print run.

no placeholders

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The first drink

Bar & Drink Menu

A shared piece

no placeholders

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Once seated

Menu Card

One design here

no placeholders

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Once seated

Leftovers Tags

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones.

What the platform sets

This piece already carried a guest's name — it shipped showing real ones. The platform simply sets each guest's own.

{{GUEST_NAME}}

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Once seated

Thank You Card

One design here

no placeholders

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The inks the evening is printed in

Three colours. One world.

Navy#1C2A52
Orange#EE7B33
Paper#F5F0E7

Not decoration — every one of these has a job, and they are the same inks the pieces below are printed in.

The gang sheet

One approved design. One impression per guest.

Every impression below is the same delivered file — Place Cards — with a different guest's name set into it, exactly as it comes off a real run. Not a mock-up: it is the piece shown above, personalised by the same code. The names are examples.

12 guests shown across 12 sheets. A real list simply continues — one run, one file per guest.

The voices

Three voices. One suite.

Aa

Caveat BrushThe voice that names

Aa

Architects DaughterThe voice that explains

Aa

CaveatThe voice that signs
What the direction refused

Five things that are not here.

A direction is as much what it turns down. This list was written when Elbows In was chosen, and every piece below holds to it.

The animated edition

The same card. And it moves.

A table drawn from directly above, running off all four edges because it always does. The envelope opens the way a real one opens and the card comes out whole — this is the piece the whole room receives identically, and the opening does not pretend otherwise.

Delivered alongside the printed piece, from the same approved design. Silent, by house rule.

What that is worth on the day

The part you cannot see from a photograph

10

Print files, not templates

The ten designs above are delivered as print-ready files — at the true trim size, with the backgrounds and the fonts the printer expects. The two that carry a name become a personalised file for every guest on the list.

02

Only what should carry a name

Two of the ten pieces carry a name. The rest read the same for the whole room, so they print once — and each one says so.

1:2

One code, two jobs

Each guest's own code opens their own page. The same code, read at the door, marks them arrived — so the host knows who is in the room without a clipboard.

The invitation is also a page

The same card, at the same guest’s link, with a reply panel drawn into it. Not a separate digital version in a different style — the design itself, continued. It is further down this page, in both of its states.

Before any of this, there were two worlds.

Two worlds were built in full. You chose Elbows In. Ementa do Dia is still there, whole.

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