VISIT.
SLOANEHOME is a studio, archive, and evolving atelier devoted to the study of contemporary domestic life through the lens of production design, preservation, and place. Based in Skaneateles, New York, the practice begins from a central revolving tableau; where objects, materials, textiles, books, vessels, lighting, and architectural fragments are assembled into highly directed compositions that reveal the character of a room before it fully exists.
These environments are informed by historical research, regional memory, and the quiet stylization of daily ritual, then extend outward into collected objects, interior commissions, archival publications, collectible editions, window installations, consultations, and fully realized environments for both private clients and public life. Each study is treated not as decoration, but as evidence of how memory, craft, and atmosphere accumulate within the home over time.
The Skaneateles emporium will serve as the physical stage for this work, where archive, studio, and storefront converge as storytelling at the hands of cinema-level styling; allowing visitors to encounter the home not simply as a designed space, but as a living tableau through which culture, authorship, and domestic life continue to unfold.
Modernity is antiquity.
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Modernity becomes antiquity the instant it is preserved. What appears contemporary in one moment will, with time, assume the quiet authority of an artifact. The work of SLOANEHOME begins from this recognition: that the objects, materials, and interiors of the present are already the inheritance of the future. By studying and arranging them with care, the studio seeks to reveal the enduring character of domestic life before it fades into memory.
In this way, the practice returns to an older idea—that beauty emerges from the attentive relationship between place, craft, and the passage of time. Interiors are not treated as fleeting compositions but as environments shaped slowly through observation and restraint. Each study becomes an attempt to honor the atmosphere of a place, allowing the present to settle into form with the patience and clarity of something meant to last.
'ATELES
'ATELES
‘Ateles’ is the mythic shortening and reimagining of Skaneateles, NY: a name that preserves the cadence and memory of the village while allowing it to function as a symbolic place beyond geography alone. Within the archive, Ateles refers not only to the village itself, but to the broader cultural landscape surrounding it: the lake, the historic houses, the workshops, the gardens, the old storefronts, the hidden studios, and the accumulated histories that continue to shape the work. The name also quietly honors the village’s Indigenous origins, preserving something of the sound and inheritance of the original Haudenosaunee place name rather than replacing it entirely. It allows the region to operate as both a real place and a myth of place; a local ‘Arcadia’ where memory, authorship, architecture, and community are still capable of producing meaning.
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Skaneateles sits within the historic “Burned-Over District” of central and western New York: a region shaped in the nineteenth century by religious revivals, utopian experiments, abolitionism, women’s rights movements, spiritualism, and new ideas about communal life. The village itself participated in that history through abolitionist activity, the Underground Railroad, and the short-lived but influential Skaneateles Community, a Fourierist social experiment founded in 1843. That legacy still gives the region a particular creative charge. It is a place where people repeatedly arrived to test new systems of living, believing, building, and making.
The result is a landscape that feels unusually layered: part village, part archive, part stage set, and part spiritual territory. For artists, writers, and designers, the pull of Skaneateles comes from that feeling that beneath its quiet surface, the village has always been a place of reinvention, hidden histories, and imaginative possibility.
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