About
A small studio in Dublin, working only with artists, galleries, and photographers.
The Art Room started because the artists I knew had bad websites — not their fault. They were on Squarespace or Cargo or some ten-year-old custom build that nobody had touched in five years. The work was extraordinary. The sites got in the way.
How we work
We design and build between five and twelve sites a year. Every project starts with a long conversation about the work — what it is, who it's for, what a website is actually meant to do for it. Not every artist needs the same thing.
We don't use templates. Every site is designed from scratch around the practice it represents, then built on a modern stack (Next.js, Supabase, Vercel) chosen because it's fast, secure, and still going to work in five years.
Practice and Bespoke clients own everything from day one — the code is in their GitHub, the database is in their Supabase, the hosting is in their Vercel. We're collaborators on those accounts, not gatekeepers. If you want to leave us, you take the whole site with you and nothing breaks.
We do a few things and we try to do them properly. We're not trying to scale. The goal is to make work we're proud of, for people we want to work with.
Who's behind it
The Art Room is run by Maxime Seigne, a French designer and developer based in Dublin. Self-taught, across both sides — design first, then code, both out of need. Years of building portfolio sites for artists and cultural projects on the side eventually made it obvious this should be the main thing.
The studio is the formal version of work that was already happening. The difference is now there's a name on the door, a way of working, and a commitment to a specific kind of client — contemporary artists, galleries, photographers, creative practices that take their work seriously and want a website that does the same.
We started in 2026. Based in Dublin, working mostly with Irish and European clients, open to remote projects anywhere.