ARCHIVE OF BEAUTY

A new kind of institution. Seeing differently, making connections, creating new forms.

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Archive of Beauty is a research institution & studio shaping how places, organisations and brands understand communication and sensory experience.

Based on how experience, objects, materials, messaging and ideas interact with each other,

and how people feel when they move within,

we shine light on new ways of seeing and perceiving.

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APPLIED WORK

Sensory Diagnostics · Place Readings

RESEARCH

The Quarterly · Field Studies · Features · Vocabulary

ARTEFACTS

ORIGIN · Objects · Editions

FIELDWORK

Gatherings · Conversations · Site-based Research

How To Work With Us

  • Person's hand and part of their beige pants are visible in the foreground, with a mountain landscape and clear sky in the background.

    PLACE READING

    An independent reading of a place.

    A focused visit and conversation that gives you another perspective on the place and the experience it creates.

  • Close-up of a human eye with a brown iris, reflecting light.

    SENSORY DIAGNOSTICS

    For a place, material, product or experience.

    An independent outside assessment of how a place, material, product or brand encounter is experienced through the senses. It identifies gaps, inconsistencies and missed opportunities across the experience.

    Available as a Material Diagnostic or a Place Diagnostic.

  • Two children touching an ancient, carved stone bas-relief with shell and decorative motifs on a historical structure.

    AOB PARTNERSHIP

    For the ongoing evolution of a project, place or brand.

    A long-term relationship with Archive of Beauty, bringing an independent perspective to the evolution of your project through strategic conversations, experience reviews, research, creative direction and access to the AOB network.

    More information on request.

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The Quarterly

The Quarterly is our publication, published March 01, June 15, September 15 and December 01.

It explores a single core subject through multiple, distinct disciplinary perspectives.

Out Now Issue 03: On Origin.

Cover of The Quarterly Issue 03: On Origin. Form, Place, Heritage, by Archive of Beauty Studio & Research Institute

Issue 01‍ ‍On Coherence. Structures, Decisions, Environments

Issue 02‍ ‍On Desire. Senses, Spaces, Algorithms

Issue 03 On Origin. Form, Place, Heritage

Issue 04‍ ‍On Thresholds. Tension, Light, Sanctuary (coming December 01, 2026)

More here

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A woman with short brown hair, wearing hoop earrings, a beige satin top, and beige pants, leans against a tree branch. Two clouds of white spherical lights are hanging from the ceiling, casting soft shadows on the wall. A cup of coffee sits on a white table, and a person in a floral dress and high heels is walking away in the background. There is also a black structure resembling a bicycle wheel and two large open umbrellas on the floor.
A woman with short brown hair, wearing hoop earrings, a beige satin top, and beige pants, leans against a tree branch. Two clouds of white spherical lights are hanging from the ceiling, casting soft shadows on the wall. A cup of coffee sits on a white table, and a person in a floral dress and high heels is walking away in the background. There is also a black structure resembling a bicycle wheel and two large open umbrellas on the floor.

Selected Features

A man with glasses and a red sweater holding a wooden bowl filled with walnuts in a garden.
A man in a white shirt opening a bottle of wine outdoors during sunset, with a scenic landscape and mountains in the background.
A man with dark hair and a stubble beard wearing a black jacket holding a yellow and black remote control, speaking in front of a presentation screen.

Africa-Arabia Edition

Two people standing outdoors near a large flowering tree under a cloudy sky.
Two people sitting on a bench watching a large digital landscape display with desert and mountains at sunset.
A view of an outdoor patio with a round table and two chairs with black and white geometric patterns, a bowl of lemons, a large green potted plant, and a striped umbrella.
A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing a navy blazer with a gold pin on the lapel, smiling, standing in front of a dark background with a model ship on a shelf.
A woman with short curly red hair wearing a dark green dress, smiling, standing against a dark background.

Shane Griffin and the Art of Elevating Reality

The measure of a moment: Roger Saul

Witnessing generations: Manfredi Rizzuto on reversible design and the land

An Ocean Address: Coherence at Sea with Anna Nash

Orchestrating Light and Space: Paola Cattarin at Zaha Hadid Architects

Designing for Wildness: James McBride

Creative Confidence: How the Gulf is Rewriting the Rules

The Story Keepers: Experience as Care in Morocco

Grown, Not Sourced: Beauty from Origin in Tanzania

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