Isidora is a fictional city in a book called "Invisible Cities". The design of the pieces was based on the following passage: 

"When a man rides a long time through wild regions, he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man: he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories."

The designs demonstrate that sense of loss along with passing age and memories. By using the counters of type I wanted to communicate the loss of time, the imprint that is left after looking at something for too long. This is the same effect Isidora has on its residents.