An older woman with short grey curls buffs the wooden seat of a stool with a folded cloth in a furniture workshop, steadying the seat with her other hand.

The Final Buff

A furniture maker polishes an ash-wood stool with a cotton cloth at a worn workbench, lit softly from a nearby window.

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Observational documentary photograph, 3:2 landscape. In a modest furniture workshop, a woman in her early sixties with short grey curls buffs a thin beeswax finish on the seat of a completed ash-wood stool resting securely on a low workbench.

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