Private Client
One-of-a-Kind Objects, Events & Experiences

Clients: Confidential

Type: Various

Services: Creative Direction / Creative Strategy / VIP Account Management / Event Planning / Interior Design / Video & Audio Production / Graphic Design / Manuscript Writing & Editing / Speech-Writing / Fine Art Management / Industrial Design & Fabrication

Some of my most rewarding and demanding work cannot be shared publicly.

Beneville Studios was founded as a confidential art studio with an exceptional brief: commissioned gifts, heirlooms, and experiences, imagined, designed, and fabricated for private families from the Forbes Billionaires List. What do you give the person who has everything? You come to Beneville Studios. Michael Beneville and his team come up with an idea, and they deliver it with absolute discretion.

There is no brief for this kind of work, only a relationship, absolute discretion, and an outcome that has to be extraordinary because it will only ever be seen by one family.

Projects have included hand-bound books, branding for a private estate, immersive dinner parties, a gentleman's study filled with hidden compartments, speech-writing, and a brass-and-aluminum grandfather clock, over six feet tall, with hundreds of personalized, programmable chimes. Every commission was an edition of one, built to be lived with for a lifetime, or several. Budgets range from six- to seven-figures.

I can say only that I am proud of this work. If you need someone who already knows how to operate at this level of discretion, I’d be happy to discuss my experiences.

Read more about the work in Graydon Carter’s Air Mail.