5th floor, Capwell Hotel, Santa Barbara |
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At the beginning of year 1989, Julia Wainwright and Mason Capwell decide to join on the professional level by opening their own law firm, Capwell & Capwell. It is Mason who locates and shows to Julia the premises he found to settle their offices. They are situated in the 5th floor of a building based in a busy district of the city.
We reach the offices of Capwell & Capwell by an elevator, doors of which open directly on the reception hall. As often in Santa Barbara, the elevator is liable to break down by locking together paradoxical characters, or is voluntarily blocked by its occupants for a loving party without anyone's knowing (it will be the case here with Julia and Mason).
The reception hall is very bright, with its walls painted in pale grey and its clear wooden doors. The sign of the firm is fixed to the left wall by going out of the elevator. Some chairs allow to make the customers wait.
In front of the hall, in a recess on the right by coming from the entrance, is the secretary's desk. It is Lisa DiNapoli who occupies this post from the opening of the firm. She will be of a big help to Mason by covering him regularly after his alcoholic excesses, before turning out to be a spy for Robert Barr.
In front of Lisa's desk, a door gives access to Mason's office, in a separate room. It is enlightened by a big picture window which overhangs a part of the city. Filled with furniture and comfortable armchairs, it demonstrates the financial ease that the firm would like to show, in spite of its real money troubles. Law books occupy the top of some cupboards, as well as a bar near the front door… supposed to offer only soft drinks.
Julia's office is, as for it, just to the right by going out of the elevator, before arriving at the reception desk. All the affairs are handled in Mason's office, and it is this office that Julia will occupy permanently during Mason's absence at summer 1989.