Large-scale shared art studios,
built inside your city's empty floors.
A studio in NYC costs $900–$3,500 a month.
The artist's income can't keep up.
of income spent on rent by artists earning under $50K
Blakehouse, 2023fixed monthly lease against income that swings between three sales and zero
Brooklyn painterartists named affordability + isolation as their top two pain points
Customer discovery
Cities have empty rooms.
Artists have nowhere to work.
Post-pandemic vacancy, a sharing-economy playbook, and AI-lean operations make this the first time the math actually works.
~25% NYC office vacancy
Property owners are actively seeking revenue from empty floors. One floor seats hundreds of artists.
Taking the wins of Airbnb and WeWork to empower artists
A platform that matches underused space with people who need it has been validated at massive scale — never for artists.
A buildout in days, not months
Wood-panel partitions and shared sinks. No demolition, no tenant-improvement budget, no long lease.
Buildings that lift their neighborhoods
Activated floors bring open studios, gallery nights, and street-level energy to the buildings hosting them.
One vacant floor. Wood panels. A working studio in days.
Atelier transforms underused commercial floors into large-scale shared art studios. Modular wood-panel partitions, shared sinks, communal gallery wall. No demolition. No long-term lease.
Days, not months
Modular wood partitions. A no-frills space that lets artists work as they please.
Short & flexible
6–18 month activations of dead space.
Cultural infusion
Open studios and gallery nights — quiet life and visibility your other tenants enjoy being near.
Galleries built in
Communal exhibition space puts artists in front of collectors.
Join the waitlist.
We're opening our first floors in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Get on the list and tell us how you work.
Have a vacant floor?
We bring a curated tenant community, revenue from dead square footage, and press your other tenants want to be near.
Pre-seed in motion.
A platform-shaped opportunity in a category that's never had one. Lean ops, repeatable city-by-city, with a real wedge into the art market.
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Sophie Lubrano
Practicing oil painter, founder of GSB Art Club, and a former finance professional working across capital markets, asset management, and private equity. Building Atelier to expand access to studio space for working artists.