transom, over the transom. Studio That Floats Among the Trees

 

Culture and Lifestyle

Angela Hau

On Long Island, an Artist’s Studio That Floats Among the Trees

The space, with its panoramic windows, allows the painter Patrick McDonough and the florist Michael Burst to immerse themselves in the environment.

Only the choir has three windows, two of them - the north and the south - are broken and one has three transoms and flamboyant latticework.

But the message from mammon is different. "When I started out running PARC, I thought 99% of the work was creating the innovation, and then throwing it over the transom for dumb marketers to figure out how to market it," says Mr Brown. "And now I realise that there is at least as much creativity in finding ways to take the idea to market as coming up with the idea in the first place. I would have spent my time differently had I figured this out early on."

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transom

noun

1. the flat surface forming the stern of a boat.

   • a horizontal beam reinforcing the stern of a boat.
   • a strengthening crossbar, in particular one set above a window or door.

   
   

over the transom

phrase of transom

1. INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN

   offered or sent without prior agreement; unsolicited.

   "the editors receive about ten manuscripts a week over the transom"