Chapter 01
Stage the room
Miami Vice energy is a time of day and a lack of clutter. Noon light, one pastel plane, one cube. The rest of the outlaw story is what you refuse to put in frame.

01
Give the color one surface
Pink and aqua belong on a column or a single wall, not on the sofa, the art, and the lamp. In this frame the architecture does the Vice work. The furniture stays white so the cube can be the loud object.

02
Seat the camera
Stand and you shoot a product. Sit and you shoot a room someone lives in. Keep the skyline in the glass behind the subject. The cube stays low, slightly off center, close enough to touch.

03
Use the cube as the bar
Same 18-inch cube, new job. Two people, two glasses, pastel behind them. Do not add a backbar, bottles, or a second table. If the cube is the bar, it is not also the coffee table in that shot.

04
Put glass over one stack
A single brick under glass is the whole story. Hands stay on the near side. More than one stack turns the table into inventory. This is the synthwave version of a centerpiece: reflective, small, obvious.

05
Clear the floor
The white curve of the sofa is the frame. The cube sits in the pocket it makes. No rug graphic, no side piles, no plant trying to be tasteful. Empty floor is what makes a money cube look chosen.
Watch the loft move
Same cube, same pastel column, now with someone actually in the room. The edit is the rule: the furniture does not change between cuts.