Portfolio
From fully original commissions to production instruments reimagined in a finish no one else will own — the work on these pages reflects the full spectrum of what we do. Some began with a blank page and took a year to build. Others started with a fine instrument and a single, decisive choice of colour. All of them belong to their owners in a way that a standard production piano never could.
Selected commissions & instruments
Featured Commission
From a distance, supported by altuglas legs, the piano seems to be suspended in space, as if it were just resting on its lyre. Parallel stripes in matte and glossy lacquer create musical staves on the piano’s belt like a dreamlike score. Up close, the interior of the piano hypnotizes with its vermilion red color, down to the smallest details: the inside of the lid, the frame, the soundboard, the bridges, but also the felts on the string plane and the dampers
Commission
Pleyel
A magnificent pastiche, this piano took inspiration from the Directoire movement. The stylised slender legs add a modern twist to a classic cabinet, whilst all of the art work was painted by hand.
Materials: Spruce, maple, walnut, laquer, oil paint and 24ct gold leaf
Commission
Pleyel
The artist Marco Del Re created the design for this striking graphic grand piano
Materials:Polyester, spruce, maple, walnut
Commission
Pleyel
A bold concept in carbon fibre and other modern materials with a ethereal skyscape on the inner lid
Materials:Carbon fibre, steel, mother of pearl, Corian
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Commission
Pleyel
This brand new Pleyel was fabricated to an authentic design which Ruhlmann originally created for Pleyel in 1925. The carmine laquer modernised the design which remains arresting in the twenty first century.
Commission
Pleyel
“Work-of-art” piano by the artist Aki Kuroda n partnership with Galerie Maeght (France).Aki Kuroda is an artist with a multidisciplinary quality, who gives life to his works in highly elaborate scene designs. This piano is an echo to the artist’s art work “Cosmogarden”, a channel where music and light take place side by side, and a work that rests on the backdrop of the cosmic night, a night that spreads out like a flower, the cosmos where mankind’s silhouette can be perceived.
Materials:Rock maple, beech, spruce, laquer, brass
Commission
Pleyel
Inspired by Pleyel's 1930s design pianos raised on a single plinth, all of of the piano's weight is borne by a central monopod into which the pedals are also integrated
Materials:Glass, carbon fibre, laquer, beech, spruce, maple
Your Piano
Tell us what you are imagining — a material, a mood, a memory — and we will show you what is possible. Every Arpège commission begins with a conversation.