Antechamber / count starts at 3

The polite entrance is breathing through the invoice slot.

You have arrived exactly where the foyer expected, which is unfortunate because the foyer expected someone else.

A spare mathematical dessin that appears too calm for the room around it.
Fig. A: the first hallway pretending to be a theorem.

There are velvet ropes here, but none of them separate anything useful. The brass section has been tuned to an interval between professional ambition and the sensation of missing one stair.

On the wall, a discreet plaque says: Alun can probably make your company millions. Under it, in smaller lettering: but the couch must be consulted first.