I The Room
001  ·  Oil on linen  ·  2023
Est. MMXIX · By invitation

A private room for serious collectors.

Curated contemporary acquisitions — placed quietly, held privately, valued generationally.

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I. The ChapterProvenance

Every work revealed, never speculated.

Drag the handle across to see what lies beneath — condition, provenance, and a documented life of ownership. This is the scrutiny every piece in the Room has already passed.

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Vesper, No. IV — Isabela Moreno, 2023. Acquired directly from the artist's Serra do Cipó studio. Exhibited Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2023. Condition: pristine. Full provenance dossier available on request.

II. The ChapterRepresented Voices

Artists we have chosen to live with.

Swipe through a selection. Each one represented over decades, never single seasons.

№ 01

Isabela Moreno

b. 1971 · São Paulo

Sculptor of cast bronze and raw pigment. Permanent collections: Tate, MASP, Kunsthaus Zürich.

№ 02

Henrik Vollmer

b. 1964 · Copenhagen

Painter of restrained interiors. Venice Biennale, 2015 and 2022.

№ 03

Yūko Arakawa

b. 1978 · Kyoto

Sumi ink, gold leaf, handmade kōzo. Bridges seventh-century tradition with contemporary formalism.

№ 04

Ettore Lanzi

b. 1956 · Milano

Heir to post-war Milanese abstraction. Secondary-market valuation doubled over the last decade.

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III. The ChapterAn Asset Class

The quietest form of generational wealth.

Twenty-five years of data. Blue-chip contemporary art has outperformed the S&P 500 by an average of 2.9 points per annum — with materially lower volatility.

Indexed return · 2000–2025  ·  Base 100
Contemporary Art · +412% S&P 500 · +287% 2000 2025
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Tangible, finite, uncorrelated.

Supply sealed by the death of the artist. Value set by connoisseurship, not quarterly earnings.

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Discretion and portability.

A significant painting crosses borders quietly. For many families, it is the quietest line on the balance sheet.

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Inheritance of culture.

Not merely an asset — a statement of values, structured to endure for at least a century.

IV. The ChapterThe Collectors

Those who have entered the Room.

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They brought me the Lanzi before it ever saw a gallery wall. Five years later, that single placement anchors the entire collection.
F. H. Delacroix Private Client · Geneva
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Discretion, scholarship, and an uncanny eye for what will matter in twenty years. There is no institution quite like it.
Margaux Oertli Interior Architect · Paris
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They treat the art, the artist, and the collector with equal gravity. It is the only way we now acquire.
J. & L. Arvidsson Private Clients · Stockholm
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