Eva-Maria Frey
founder of Heredis Atelier digital heritage reconstruction studio in Zug, Switzerland
founder of Heredis Atelier digital heritage reconstruction studio in Zug, Switzerland
My foundation is art history — a discipline that trains the eye to read objects: their construction, their period, the hand and intention behind them. Alongside scholarship, I spent years working across CGI, graphic design, photography, and video, developing a visual sensibility that formal academia rarely provides. These two tracks ran in parallel for a long time. It was the study of 3D — pursued with the rigour of a second degree, through extensive professional training — that finally brought them together. As a 3D Generalist, I found the language that art history alone could not give me: the ability not only to analyse an object, but to rebuild it from within.
For a long time I moved between disciplines without a fixed destination — and I no longer consider that a detour. It was precisely that breadth which made the direction, when it finally appeared, feel inevitable. The question that came to occupy me was not what had survived the centuries — but what had not. Objects documented in inventories, photographed once, then lost to revolution, dispersal, or silence. I came to believe that the absence of an object is not the end of its existence. It is an invitation to reconstruct it — with full scholarly rigour, and with the tools that now, for the first time, make that possible.
Today, Heredis Atelier GmbH operates as a specialist studio headquartered in Zug, Switzerland , working at the intersection of cultural heritage digitisation , high-end jewellery CGI , and institutional research. Alongside the studio, the Verein Legacy Digitalis provides the academic and archival foundation that makes our reconstructions possible. Both structures are family-owned — and built to remain so.
Every reconstruction begins in an archive — not in software.
Material accuracy is not aesthetic — it is ethical.
Digital ownership carries the same weight as physical provenance.
Before a single vertex is placed, we consult period inventories, workshop photographs, technical drawings, and the published findings of scholars who have spent careers on these objects. The 3D model is the last step — and because of everything that precedes it, the most faithful one.
Each reconstruction we issue is a singular object: documented, registered, and unrepeatable. Its value lies not only in what it depicts, but in the rigour of the process that brought it into existence. Provenance does not begin at auction. It begins in the archive.
Guilloché patterns derived from dated workshop records. Enamel opacity calibrated against surviving period examples. Gemstone faceting mapped to the cutting conventions of the era. These are not stylistic decisions. They are obligations to the original makers — and to the collectors and institutions who will hold these objects after us.
Heredis Atelier is built on a two-structure model — an academic foundation and a commercial studio that reinforce each other. The research conducted through the Verein raises the scholarly and cultural value of every object produced by the GmbH. The commercial work funds the depth of research the Verein makes possible.
RESEARCH & FOUNDATION
COMMERCIAL STUDIO
— Archival research & publications
— Grant applications
— Academic & museum partnerships
— AI research infrastructure
— IP documentation & compliance
— Grant applications
— Academic & museum partnerships
— AI research infrastructure
— IP documentation & compliance
— B2B contracts: brands, museums, galleries
— Heritage reconstruction commissions
— High-end jewellery & watch CGI
— Licensing & digital asset sales
— Collector editions & NFT registry
— Heritage reconstruction commissions
— High-end jewellery & watch CGI
— Licensing & digital asset sales
— Collector editions & NFT registry
Both entities are family-owned and intended to remain so.
Heredis Atelier GmbH 2025 ©
Untermüli 11 , 6300 Zug, Switzerland
Untermüli 11 , 6300 Zug, Switzerland
Managing Director: Eva-Maria Frey
Contact: info@heredisatelier.ch
TEL: +41 76 288 28 68
Contact: info@heredisatelier.ch
TEL: +41 76 288 28 68
Eternal mastery. Digital soul.
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Heredis Atelier GmbH 2025 ©
Untermüli 11 , 6300 Zug, Switzerland
Untermüli 11 , 6300 Zug, Switzerland
Managing Director: Eva-Maria Frey
Contact: info@heredisatelier.ch
TEL: +41 76 288 28 68
Contact: info@heredisatelier.ch
TEL: +41 76 288 28 68
Eternal mastery. Digital soul.
