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Where chaos gets a ceiling and brilliance gets cornered into existence
means A room or building where an artist, photographer, musician, broadcaster, or filmmaker works — or a small one-room apartment that's basically all room.
from From Italian 'studio,' meaning 'study' or 'a room for study,' which descends from Latin 'studium' — zeal, eagerness, painstaking application. The same root gives us 'study' itself. The word arrived in English in the 19th century, first for the working spaces of painters and sculptors, then spreading to photography, film, radio, and eventually any cramped flat an estate agent wanted to flatter.
- origin
- From Latin studium, meaning zeal or eagerness
- size
- Apartment listings shrunk it to one room
- hollywood
- Studios once owned actors like livestock contracts
- abbey road
- Built in 1931, still recording legends today
- motown
- Began in a tiny Detroit house called Hitsville
abbey road studios — london recording studio where the beatles recorded 'abbey road' in 1969
sun studio — memphis studio where elvis presley, johnny cash, and jerry lee lewis recorded in the 1950s
electric lady studios — new york studio founded by jimi hendrix in 1970, still operating today