A Slow Studio offering
Atlas Patrimonia
Bespoke estate atlases for properties worth listening to. Built with the family who lives it.
A Slow Studio offering
Bespoke estate atlases for properties worth listening to. Built with the family who lives it.
An exploration of the true spirit of a Place. Atlas Patrimonia is a bespoke illustrated record of an estate, made slowly, curated, in plates and bespoke pieces.
This is a deep inquiry. It is a portrait of the place, and a portrait of the people who live there.
It gets made the slow way, walking the land, tracing what the trees and the water already know, gathering what the family remembers before it's forgotten. What comes out the other end is a portrait. Of the place. Of the people who belong to it.
There was a long time when serious properties had books and plates made of them. Watercolours of the gardens, drawings of the elevations, surveys of the woods, bound volumes of all of it kept in the library. The habit lapsed. What replaced it, mostly, was estate-agent photography and Google Maps.
What we make holds more than a building and its grounds. The plants and what they've seen. The river and the legend attached to it. The family that's walked this land for however many generations, written back into the place they belong to. Some of what goes in is technical. Almost none of what people keep is.
The pleasure of holding a beautiful illustrated record of a place you love has not gone anywhere. Some properties still ask for it. We make these for the people who still want to give it.
Three scales of work, each suited to a different relationship with the property. Pricing shared on inquiry.
A single illustrated plate. The estate map, or a detail of it. The plan of the main building. Made to be framed and hung.
A working set of pieces for a property in active use including a botanical portrait of the grounds and circulation layout plans. Plates, framed wall editions for principal rooms, and small bound booklets for guests.
The full custom design set. Drawn from any combination of plates, framed editions, booklets, and written text. Made to be passed with the property.
Four movements, taken slowly. Three weeks to several months, depending on scale.
A first phase of the conversation about the Place and its family. We tend to the relationship with Place first. We listen.
We capture the place in all its detail. Drone capture of the estate, ground photography, study of existing plans and historical material. We walk the land and rekindle relationship. For properties at distance, we coordinate local capture.
Specified deliverables are carefully composed and rendered in studio. Drafts shared with the client at key stages.
Print, presentation, and binding. The final objects are delivered in person wherever the property allows.
Who's behind this
Jo was born and raised an architect. But more and more the relationship to Place became her focus. Atlas Patrimonia grew out of Listen to Your Land, the methodology she uses with estate owners to read a place properly before anyone touches it: the water, the ecology, the family history sitting quietly underneath the deed.
Slow Studio is where that same reading becomes a gorgeous object. And a story worth telling.
- Listen to Your Land - Jo Petroni's websiteEvery Atlas Patrimonia begins with a Place and a conversation. Tell me about yours.
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