What Happens to a House After the Founder?
Which decisions, relationships, and keys disappear with one person?
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What survives absence, sale, succession, or death?
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Who Is Allowed to Interpret a Dead Designer’s Codes?
What gives a successor legitimacy?
Enter dossierThe Last Collection Is an Operational Event
What should happen to orders, staff, IP, files, samples, and promises after incapacity or death?
Enter dossierThe Personal Archive as Succession Infrastructure
Why begin preservation while the founder can still describe decisions?
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Which steward can preserve, interpret, teach, and fund a legacy?
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How does a house evolve without copying visual signatures?
Enter dossierThe Oral History Is a Succession Document
Which knowledge can only be captured in voice?
Enter dossierA Garment Can Outlive Its File
What must be preserved physically and digitally together?
Enter dossierPhilanthropy as Continuation
Can resources reproduce conditions for future creators rather than reproduce a founder’s style?
Enter dossierThe House After the House
What survives when the operating company closes?
Enter dossierProvenance Is Future Memory
What chain of evidence lets later audiences trust an object and its story?
Enter dossierThe Institutional Will
What should a founder decide now about name, archive, creative authority, and public interpretation?
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