— I / sculpt
We listen, then we draw the silhouette.
Two weeks in the same room as your team. We take notes on butcher paper, sketch in pencil, never in Figma. The deliverable is a shape — a north star with edges, not a deck.
— a design house for digital matter
we sculpt weightless objects, in code, in light, in the small hours.
Atrium is a small studio of five — building interfaces, products and rituals for brands that prefer the specific over the obvious. Twelve commissions a year, no exceptions. Read on, or write to us — both work.
68+
Commissions delivered
5
People in the room
12/yr
Hard limit, on purpose
'18
Quietly, since
Open · accepting briefs for Q3 2026
Latitude 47.3769 · Longitude 8.5417
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— index № 01 / selected works
recent commissions, in chronological retreat.
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01
Atelier Hollow — fragrance house identity
Hollow Cosmetics, Paris 2026 / Identity → -
02
Vesper Glass — banking app, redrawn
Vesper AG, Zürich 2026 / Product → -
03
Saorsa Distillery — bottle & web
Saorsa Spirits, Skye 2025 / Brand → -
04
Field Notes — a journal for architects
Field Press, Berlin 2025 / Editorial → -
05
Mire & Stone — gallery, online
Mire Foundation 2024 / Web → -
06
Hagane Knives — workshop e-commerce
Hagane, Sakai 2024 / Commerce → -
07
Praxis Atlas — research interface
ETH Praxis Lab 2024 / Tooling → -
08
Verse Hotel — booking experience
Verse Hospitality 2023 / Product →
Hollow / 2026
— index № 02 / how we work
three movements; one object.
Every commission moves through the same three rooms. We resist the start-up choreography of sprints and ceremonies. Instead, we work like a small workshop: slowly, in private, until the thing has a weight of its own.
— II / forge
We make one version, well, before another.
Six to twelve weeks at the bench. Code, type, motion, copy — built in the right order, by the same small team. No handoff. Each iteration ships into a private staging room you can visit any morning.
— III / polish
We refuse to ship until it feels still.
Two weeks of nothing but small things — kerning, easing curves, copy weights, the loading screen, the empty states. The work either has a quiet hum to it or it doesn't. We wait for the hum.
a website should feel like a room you are willing to come back to, twice.— Atrium From a letter, written in pencil, 2024
— index № 03 / cabinet
specimens, in no particular order.
Hollow Cosmetics
Vesper Glass
Saorsa Distillery
Field Notes
Chrome 04
Hagane Knives
Mire & Stone
Praxis Atlas
Verse Hotel
— index № 04 / letters
kind words, mostly unprompted.
Letters from the people we worked with — kept on the studio wall, dog-eared and mostly handwritten. We trade them for chocolate.
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They worked on our identity for fourteen weeks and never sent a single status report. We received one box, in March, full of paper. It was the most useful thing we'd ever paid for.
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Atrium are slow in the way that good orchestras are slow. You hear it in the finished thing. We tested the new Vesper app with five customers; four of them said it felt 'expensive' before they were told the price.
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I had three other studios pitch us first. Atrium didn't pitch — they sent a letter. Two pages, no slides. We hired them on the strength of the second paragraph.
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They built our research tool the way an old craftsman builds a chair — quietly, in pieces, until one morning it was just there, doing exactly what we needed it to do.
let's begin a small thing,
and finish it well.
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- 8005 Zürich
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- Linienstrasse 142
- 10115 Berlin
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- +49 30 000 000 ↗
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