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Colonnade Proof Section

Results and press in mirrored columns like a colonnade: a principal quotation on the axis, a figure either side, a notice at each end, one rule between each pair, rising from a gold architrave.

ProNeoclassicaleditorialminimal
Category
Sections
Added
2026-09-26
Deps
none
Updated
2026-09-26

This is a viberdy Pro component

The live preview, the props panel and the write-up are open to everyone. The full source, the AI prompt and CLI install are part of Pro.

Preview

The Record

What the room has said

An autumn season in figures, and in the words of those who were there.

They catalogue as scholars and sell as if every lot were the only one. It is the rarest pairing in the trade.
A private collectorGeneva, after the October sale

Autumn season

£41.2m

Hammer total, three sales

Sold by value

96%

Across 312 lots

“Quietly, the most exacting catalogue in London.”
The Vellum Review
“A room that still knows how to be patient.”
Salon & Saleroom

Figures include buyer's premium. Placeholder content for a fictional house.

Props

No runtime dependencies
"use client";

import { useEffect, useId, useRef, useState } from "react";

/**
 * ColonnadeProofSection — results and press set in mirrored columns, like a
 * colonnade: one principal quotation on the axis, a figure either side of
 * it, a shorter notice at each end, and a single hairline between each pair
 * of columns.
 *
 * The composition is symmetric about the centre: the left columns align
 * toward the axis, the right columns mirror them. When the section comes
 * into view the architrave (the one gold line) draws out from the centre,
 * the column rules rise from it, the inner pair first, and the text arrives
 * from the axis outward. One rule per division, no fluting, no ornament.
 * On a phone the colonnade stacks: the principal quotation, the two figures
 * side by side, then the notices, divided by single rules.
 *

  // ---------------------------------------------------------------
  // Full source available with a viberdy Pro subscription.
  // https://viberdy.dev/pricing
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}
Notes

About this section

Heritage houses prove themselves with a few figures and a few sentences from people who were in the room, and they set them with ceremony. This section arranges them like a colonnade: the principal quotation on the axis, a figure either side of it, a shorter notice at each end, and a single hairline between each pair of columns, so the composition mirrors about its centre. The left columns lean toward the axis and the right ones answer them. When it comes into view the architrave, the one gold line, draws out from the centre, the column rules rise from it, the inner pair first, and the words arrive from the axis outward. There is one rule per division and no ornament. On a phone it stacks: the quotation, the two figures side by side, then the notices. Every figure, quotation and source comes from one typed content object, and the demo is marked as placeholder so none of it can be published by accident.

Curator’s note

Part of the Neoclassical kit, drop 3, phase 9: the proof section. Pro because it composes a symmetric five-part section with a mirrored layout, a stacked phone layout and a staged entrance. Its content is one typed object, PROOF_DEMO, marked as placeholder.

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