Over the past 12 years, while still working on her own pieces back home, Ms. Slemmon has returned to Oaxaca for a few weeks each year to refine and elaborate the designs, working alongside craftspeople in the refurbished hydroelectric plant that houses the workshop.
I had also seen many pictures - mostly showing the vast glass curtain wall on one side of the wing that used to house the workshops and led locals to refer to the building as the "Aquarium".
There was space in the design district in a Victorian that housed the Blackman Cruz Workshop, but he wasn't sure he wanted to go the traditional showroom route.
(It's currently housed at the workshop). Ms. Edwards, then 23, took the plunge.
That's the area in downtown Sheffield which houses the atmospheric workshop run by that sage of sock, Brendan Ingle, which has become as prolific a production line of champions here as as Freddie Roach's Wild Card gym, the current campus of Pacquiao and Amir Khan, in Los Angeles.
The former workers' cottages and buildings that housed the dairy, stables and workshops now have Grade II listings from the English Heritage organization, meaning that they are of more than special historic interest.
The baileys, which were separated by rock-cut ditches, housed the castle's stables, workshops, and storage facilities.
That success, however, masked rather than solved the problem, which exploded with brutal horror in Paris, when militants, many of them Belgians, killed 130 people with guns and with bombs made in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek, the same area that would later house the bomb-making workshop on Max Roos Street.
"Some people are telling us that the exhibition is offensive, that it is in poor taste to have human hair on display like this," Smrek told me recently in his office, which is in a former barrack that houses the offices and workshops of the museum's conservation department.
