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Every public room, every moment, every voice and every question answered here.

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The house
  • Home

    A private celebration house for households that host.

  • About

    The rules of the house, what the voices will never do, and the line we keep.

  • Membership

    The Keepsake, The House and The Heirloom, and how allocation is confirmed.

  • FAQ

    Monthly plans, the AI voices, RSVPs and privacy, answered plainly.

  • The Five Voices

    Evelyn, Clara, Isabel, Margaret and Sylvie, and the boundaries each keeps.

The studio
Legal
  • Privacy

    What the house holds and how to export or purge it.

  • Terms

    The terms on which the house operates.

  • Cookies

    What is stored on your device, and what is not.

The moments
  • New Year's Eve

    31 December The last table of the year, laid for the first hours of the next. Seating, the toast, the countdown, the morning after. Who is at the table when the year turns, and who

  • Valentine's Day

    14 February One table kept for two, or a room kept for many. The letter, the small gift, the private table. Whether the evening is for two or for twenty, decided weeks out rather t

  • Mother's Day

    Mothering Sunday, then Mother’s Day A morning, not a performance — and the person who rarely asks for one. Breakfast in bed, letters from the children, the gift she would not buy h

  • Father's Day

    June, UK and US dates differ A day best spent doing something, rather than giving something. The lunch, the outing, the gift with a use. The lunch or the outing, and who is driving

  • Midsummer Gathering

    Late June, near Midsummer The long table under open sky, with the light staying late for you. The garden, the candles, the first proper supper of the season. The long table, the li

  • Halloween & Masquerade

    31 October The children’s hour, then the grown table — one house, two evenings. Costume, the doorway, the quiet corners, the later seating. The children’s hour, then the grown tabl

  • Thanksgiving

    Fourth Thursday of November The one evening of the year given over to saying the thing out loud. The gratitude round, the room, the table plan for blended families. The gratitude r

  • Christmas

    25 December, and the twelve days after Not a day — a season, with the house at its centre and the year closing behind it. Advent, the tree, the gifts, the guests who stay, the lett

The voices
  • Evelyn Ashcombe

    The Host Event architecture Event architect: run-sheets, guest protocol, seating logic, timings, and etiquette on both sides of the invitation. Unhurried and exact. She asks who is

  • Clara Vance

    The Giftkeeper Gifting intelligence Gifting intelligence: the taste genome, gift allocation, reciprocity, and anti-duplicate memory. Warm, curious, quietly forensic. She remembers

  • Isabel Marchetti

    The Correspondent Letters and toasts Letters, toasts, thank-yous and the Card Studio. She writes in your voice, never in hers. Measured, graceful, faintly Italianate in rhythm. She

  • Margaret Ellsworth

    The Steward Tradition and record The tradition archive, time capsules and heirloom records — keeper of what the house did last year, and ten years ago. Steady, archival, fond witho

  • Sylvie Rousseau

    The Sommelier Table and cellar The table and cellar: menu pairing, wine and spirit suggestions, and the flow of the meal. Direct, sensual, practical. She pairs to the room and the

Membership
  • The Keepsake

    $290 one-time One celebration, planned completely. One moment entered on the Year Wheel Recipient Genome for up to ten people The Gift Ledger, opened One Sentimental Embassy letter

  • The House

    $1,200 per year The full year, held in advance. All eight moments, plus every birthday and anniversary in the circle Unlimited people in the Genome All five voices, without limit T

  • The Heirloom

    $4,500 one-time, for life Everything above, kept permanently. Everything in The House, held in perpetuity Tradition Archive without a year limit An annual review of the archive Pri

Questions
  • What exactly is The Heirloom Hour?

    A private house that keeps a family’s celebrations in one place: the calendar of moments, the people in the circle, the taste of each of them, what was given and received, and the

  • Are the five voices real people?

    No, and we say so everywhere they appear. Each is an AI voice built in the house’s discipline — The Host, The Giftkeeper, The Correspondent, The Steward, The Sommelier — and each i

  • Will they invent a venue, a vintage or a price?

    They are built to refuse. No voice will invent availabilities, prices, venues, vintages, ateliers or provenance, and none will claim an allocation or an investment return. They wor

  • Is there a monthly subscription?

    No. There is no monthly plan anywhere in the house. The Keepsake is a single payment for one celebration, The House is paid once a year, and The Heirloom is paid once for life.

  • Do you send physical cards and gifts?

    We do not manufacture or post anything. The Card Studio produces a printer-ready brief for your own stationer, and the Gift Ledger briefs what to source. Physical goods are yours t

  • Who can see our information?

    Your records are private to your account. We do not sell data, we run no advertising, and there is no marketplace. You can request an export or a purge from account settings at any

  • What happens to the RSVP?

    A guest replies with their name, any dietary needs and a note. Nothing else is collected — no passports, no identification, no signed agreements. The guest list stays with the even

  • Does the house mark faiths other than Christian ones?

    It notes them, respectfully and without assumption. The Year Wheel can hold Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Passover, Easter, Vaisakhi, both Eids, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Diwali and

  • How is a letter written “in my voice”?

    You describe the occasion, the recipient and the tone, and the Correspondent writes against the context the house already holds — past letters, the person’s record, what you have s

  • What if we host for staff, a PA or a household team?

    The Run-Sheet is built for exactly that: timings, responsibilities, contacts and vendors, exportable as a printed briefing. Your PA can work from the sheet without access to anythi