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      "state": "resolved",
      "text": "Rustic, as an interior register, is furnishing and decoration built from unfinished or barely worked natural material — unpeeled logs and branches, bark, twigs, burls, rough stone — with rough cloths and deeper, richer colours, deliberately avoiding straight lines and symmetry; its best-documented form is Adirondack camp rustic (from the 1870s), and hand-painted signage is Aesthetary's reading."
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      "text": "Rustic names several things: NPS park architecture, rustication, and an interior style contrasted with shabby chic. This record covers that interior register: unfinished wood, rough cloth, deeper colours; signage is Aesthetary's reading.",
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    "ruling": "D0-5 MD-3 (2026-09-28)"
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      "id": "hierarchy-13",
      "text": "CURATORIAL: rank by material weight — heavier, rougher surfaces read as more structural.",
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      "id": "surface-8.surface",
      "text": "Surface is the record — the sole cross_library entry and the whole discriminator against the parent.",
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      "text": "Material over pattern: the surface is identified by what it is made of, not by what is printed on it.",
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      "text": "No floral or gingham pattern.",
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      "text": "No pastel.",
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      "id": "failure-3",
      "text": "No typeset signage.",
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      "id": "failure-4",
      "text": "No smooth or polished finish.",
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      "text": "Not open: pattern-as-ground.",
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      "text": "Wooden and sturdy where the parent is floral and delicate",
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      "text": "Cross-library: Surface: wood and paper texture",
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    {
      "id": "freedom-imagery",
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      "id": "kcc:form-1",
      "text": "Some rustic furniture retains an obvious connection to the tree: makers use sticks, unpeeled wood, bark, split twigs and burls.",
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      "text": "Adirondack great lodges used notched-log construction or half-log sheathing; documented camp interiors show crossed logs and log beams in ceilings, stick railings and stone fireplaces.",
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      "id": "kcc:form-3",
      "text": "Rigid straight lines and symmetry are avoided in both the furniture tradition and NPS rustic architecture.",
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      "id": "kcc:form-4",
      "text": "Durant's later camps used chunkier, peeled poles, a look folded into the expanding regional stylebook.",
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      "text": "Documented rustic interiors display the trophies and gear of woods life: animal pelts, taxidermy, snowshoes.",
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        "practice": "photographs of Adirondack camps (Stoddard, 1873–1917) as described by the NYS Library"
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    },
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      "id": "kcc:imagery-2",
      "text": "Victorian Great Camps showed a partiality to wicker and a strong appetite for all things Asian, so imagery was not confined to local nature.",
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      "id": "kcc:layout-1",
      "text": "Rustic is described (Gilborn) as abhorring 'the straight line and symmetry'; NPS rustic rejected the regularity and symmetry of the industrial world.",
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        "practice": "Gilborn (former Adirondack Museum director) as quoted by NYS Library; NPS architecture"
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      "id": "kcc:motif-1",
      "text": "The recurring ornament is made from the material itself: twig mosaics, applied bark, and stick-against-bark geometric figures such as stars and diamonds.",
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          "kcc-rustic-S5",
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          "kcc-rustic-S6"
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:motif-2",
      "text": "An earlier European strand of rustic furniture, inspired by Chinese garden aesthetics, echoed the organic forms of trees, vines and leaves.",
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          "kcc-rustic-S8"
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        "kind": "documented",
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        "practice": "late 1700s Europe; exhibition announcement"
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-1",
      "text": "Rustic furniture is made by hand from materials at hand, often unpeeled or salvaged wood, with bark, split twigs and burls applied as embellishment.",
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          "kcc-rustic-S6"
        ],
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        "contested": false
      },
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        "practice": "Adirondack Experience collection"
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-2",
      "text": "Rustic architecture depends on intensive hand labour and the appearance of pioneer craft with limited hand tools.",
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        "practice": "NPS rustic, 1916–1942"
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:technique-3",
      "text": "Roughness can be manufactured: rusticated masonry is carefully worked to look coarse, and rustic work is described as 'cunning' play.",
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        "contested": false
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        "practice": "rustication is Renaissance masonry, a neighbour sense of the word"
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    },
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      "id": "kcc:interface-1",
      "text": "The documented subjects are furniture, interiors and park buildings; no opened source addresses screen elevation, radius, borders or controls. The refusal of straight lines is recorded under form and layout, not converted into an interface rule.",
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          "kcc-rustic-S6",
          "kcc-rustic-S4"
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      },
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    },
    {
      "id": "kcc:definition",
      "text": "Rustic, as an interior register, is furnishing and decoration built from unfinished or barely worked natural material — unpeeled logs and branches, bark, twigs, burls, rough stone — with rough cloths and deeper, richer colours, deliberately avoiding straight lines and symmetry; its best-documented form is Adirondack camp rustic (from the 1870s), and hand-painted signage is Aesthetary's reading.",
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            "padding": "1.5rem",
            "tilt": "-0.6deg",
            "shadow": "0 8px 18px rgba(20, 15, 10, 0.35)"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Board on the wall, slightly off level.",
            "hover": "The board straightens by half a degree.",
            "focus": "3px outline in the paint colour."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Body text sits on the board in light paint or on paper in ink, never on the grain streaks at small size.",
            "The tilt is removed under 48rem so lines stay level for reading."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Rank cards by material: the heaviest, darkest board carries the most important content, paper carries asides.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:hierarchy-13",
                "token_rule:ru-r1"
              ],
              "because": "Heavier, rougher surfaces read as more structural."
            },
            {
              "rule": "Hang each card a degree off level; never centre a row of them on a symmetric axis.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:form-3",
                "claim:kcc:layout-1"
              ],
              "because": "Rigid straight lines and symmetry are avoided in the furniture and the architecture."
            }
          ]
        },
        "input": {
          "name": "Input",
          "becomes": "A slip of paper pinned to the board, its label painted above.",
          "anatomy": [
            "paper field with tooth",
            "ink text",
            "label in slab serif above",
            "a pin at the top"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "background": "#EAE3D1",
            "text": "#33302A",
            "border": "2px solid #33302A",
            "radius": "2px"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Paper with a thin ink edge.",
            "focus": "The edge thickens to 3px and an outline sits outside it.",
            "error": "A written message beneath, beginning \"Error:\", on paper.",
            "disabled": "Label struck through."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "Ink on paper is 10.27:1.",
            "A visible label on every field.",
            "Errors are written, not only coloured."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Draw the field as paper, the room's writing surface, with a thin ink edge.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:ru-r1",
                "token_rule:hierarchy-13"
              ],
              "because": "Paper is the second working surface on the record; entry is writing."
            }
          ]
        },
        "navigation": {
          "name": "Navigation",
          "becomes": "A row of small signs hung from nails, each painted by hand.",
          "anatomy": [
            "small boards, each a link",
            "painted labels",
            "nails at the top corners",
            "uneven spacing and tilt"
          ],
          "tokens": {
            "gap": "0.9rem",
            "tilt": "±1deg",
            "marker": "current sign is paper with ink paint"
          },
          "states": {
            "default": "Dark boards, light paint, underlined.",
            "hover": "Underline thickens.",
            "focus": "3px outline in the paint colour.",
            "current": "The sign is paper with ink paint; no link."
          },
          "accessibility": [
            "aria-current on the current page.",
            "Tilt is decoration; the order of links reads left to right."
          ],
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "Hang each link as its own painted sign; mark the current page by changing the material, not by a colour tint.",
              "basis": "translation",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:ru-r1",
                "token_rule:hierarchy-13",
                "token_rule:typography-4"
              ],
              "because": "The surface carries the meaning (material over pattern), and the ranking is by material."
            }
          ]
        }
      },
      "motion": {
        "spec": null,
        "rules": [
          {
            "rule": "Material does not animate.",
            "basis": "translation",
            "cites": [
              "claim:motion-reason"
            ],
            "because": "The cited rule belongs to the Aesthetic's own medium; applying it to a screen component or motion is our translation."
          },
          {
            "rule": "The sources do not specify motion.",
            "basis": "not_recorded",
            "cites": [],
            "guidance": "State changes are instant; nothing enters, drifts or reveals on scroll.",
            "silence": "source"
          }
        ]
      },
      "dimensions": [
        {
          "key": "material",
          "label": "Material weight",
          "summary": "The one ranking this register has: what a surface is made of says how much it carries.",
          "values": [
            {
              "rule": "The surface is identified by what it is made of, not by what is printed on it.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "token_rule:ru-r1"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Made by hand from materials at hand, with bark, split twigs and burls applied as embellishment.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-1"
              ]
            },
            {
              "rule": "Roughness can be manufactured: rustic work is described as cunning play.",
              "basis": "record",
              "cites": [
                "claim:kcc:technique-3"
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "notRecorded": [
        {
          "category": "components",
          "what": "Interface conventions",
          "why": "No opened source addresses screen elevation, radius, borders or controls; the four components are translations of documented rules."
        },
        {
          "category": "gridLayout",
          "what": "Density and a column system",
          "why": "Density is not specified by the source."
        },
        {
          "category": "motion",
          "what": "Any motion",
          "why": "The record says material does not animate, and no source specifies motion."
        }
      ],
      "silence": {
        "color": "source",
        "typography": "source",
        "gridLayout": "source",
        "shapeGeometry": "source",
        "imagery": "source",
        "components": "source",
        "motion": "source"
      }
    }
  }
}