Ninety minutes before the first guest: how the house wakes up.
Kenji opens at 8:30 and waters the propagation wall first. Every glass tube holds a cutting a guest brought in; some are four years old now.
Rui arrives with pastéis from the bakery on the corner. Inês checks the day's colour plans against the log. Marta chooses the music.
The colour bar
By 9:45 the bowls are laid out, the first formulas are weighed, and the kettle has boiled twice.