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THE STUDIO
Two people, one workshop, and a habit of building frames.
Wren Aldous Studio designs sets, launches and rooms from a workshop in Lisbon. We build what we draw, and we are there on the night.
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ABOUT
I trained as a theatre designer and spent ten years building other people’s sets before starting my own studio in 2019.
The studio is small on purpose. Every project gets both of us, from the first site visit to the last screw coming out on take-down day.
Most of what we build is temporary. We plan a second home for every piece before we cut any wood, and so far nothing has gone to landfill.
We work anywhere with a road to it. Recent worlds were built on a salt flat, in a palm house, on a beach, in a desert and in the snow.
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HOW WE WORK
Four rules we keep.
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Stand where they stand
Every drawing starts from the audience’s eye height, not a plan view.
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One frame per world
One shape tells people where to enter. We never need signs.
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Build less
If the place already does something well, we leave it alone.
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Plan the second life
Every set has a new home booked before it is built.
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CLIENTS SO FAR
People who let us build in their world.
Halden Audio
Listening pavilion · 2025
Maison Ferre
Runway set · 2025
Norrvik Outerwear
Launch film set · 2024
Casa Ocre
Desert exhibition · 2024
Hotel Lysnes
Winter suite · 2023
Tovah Lune
Touring stage · 2023
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WHAT CLIENTS SAID
In their words.
She found us a building that already looked like the collection. Then she had the nerve to add almost nothing.
Inès Ferré
Maison Ferre
We asked for a film set. We got a frame on a beach and the best two days of weather-watching of my life.
Oskar Lindqvist
Norrvik Outerwear
The pavilion had nothing in it and people stayed for hours. I still don’t fully understand how.
Maja Halden
Halden Audio
Nine minutes of sun, forty pieces, and every one of them sold. Wren planned it to the second.
Luz Ocre
Casa Ocre
Our quietest room is our most booked. Guests write to us about the light for months.
Sigrid Lysnes
Hotel Lysnes
One van, ninety minutes, forty nights. The set made every hall feel like my kitchen.
Tovah Lune
Independent
Let’s build the next one together.
Two lines about the place, the audience and the date is plenty to start.