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 Max, a French designer and developer based in Dublin. Self-taught across both disciplines — design first, then code, both out of necessity.
After years working in large corporate environments, art became a way to slow down. Weekends were often spent visiting exhibitions, galleries, artist studios, and cultural spaces — places that offered a different pace, a different kind of attention, and a welcome distance from the demands of everyday work.
Over time, it became clear that the work worth building a practice around wasn't for corporations, but for the people creating the art itself.
The Art Room is the formal version of that decision: a studio dedicated to helping contemporary artists, galleries, photographers, and cultural organisations present their work online with the same care they bring to the work itself.
We started in 2026. Based in Dublin, working mostly with Irish and European clients, open to remote projects anywhere.
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