Most interiors happen. A sofa bought because it was on sale, a colour left from the previous tenant, a lamp that fills a corner without anyone having decided it should. The result is a space that functions but says nothing, or worse, says something its owner never intended.
Thesaura exists because I believe spaces deserve more than that.
The name comes from the Greek thesauros : the place where things of value are kept. In ancient Greek sanctuaries, the thesauroi were small stone buildings where cities stored their most precious offerings. That is the spirit: not accumulation, but careful keeping. Selecting what belongs, removing what does not, understanding what a space is trying to say and helping it say it better.
The work sits at the intersection of three things I have spent years learning. Curation, reading objects and artworks as carriers of meaning, not just beauty. Space design (understanding how proportion, material and light shape the way a body feels in a room). Art advisory : knowing where to find work that is genuinely interesting and actually acquirable, outside the usual circuits.
My eye was formed on art history, on art brut and outsider art, on ceramics and textiles and the kinds of objects that museums used to call minor and are now reconsidering. The geographical frame is the Mediterranean — not as an aesthetic mood board, but as a civilisation with a long memory that I find endlessly useful.
I work with private clients and with hospitality projects. The brief, in both cases, is the same: build a space that means something.
If that sounds like what you need, I would like to hear about it.
Baliria, alias:
Valeria Arnèodo founder of Thesaura