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Eva-Maria Frey
founder of Heredis Atelier digital heritage reconstruction studio in Zug, Switzerland

EVA-MARIA FREY
founder of Heredis Atelier digital heritage reconstruction studio in Zug, Switzerland

We recreate lost masterpieces through digital means and make their ownership possible.

Heredis Atelier GmbH is a privately held Swiss specialist atelier based in Zug. It works across cinematic CGI for high jewellery and fine watchmaking, and the production of evidence-led digital reconstructions for cultural heritage.

Projects are carried out through a specialist team assembled around the demands of each object. Art direction, 3D production, material development, animation and delivery are coordinated as one controlled process. Roles and credits are stated project by project.

Heredis Atelier is founder-led and privately held. Legacy Digitalis is a legally separate Swiss non-profit association. Legacy develops and commissions research-led cultural heritage projects; Heredis acts as the specialist digital production atelier. The organisations collaborate under formal project agreements.

We undertakes commercial commissions for luxury maisons, designers and cultural organisations, alongside selected reconstruction projects commissioned through Legacy Digitalis. Each engagement is accepted for its artistic, technical and institutional relevance.

Eva-Maria Frey

Eva-Maria Frey works at the intersection of art history and digital image-making. Her practice developed across 3D, photography, graphic design and moving image, with a particular focus on the construction, material behaviour and visual interpretation of exceptional objects.

The question at the centre of Heredis is simple: how can an object known only through fragments of evidence regain form without losing the distinction between fact and interpretation?

Founder & managing director of Heredis Atelier

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 works across two directions: photoreal CGI for the high jewellery and watchmaking segment, and digital reconstruction of historical objects. Both draw on the same pipeline — physically accurate materials, directed light, and hand-built assets.

The studio is currently engaged on a reconstruction project commissioned by Verein Legacy Digitalis, an independent Swiss research association.

— B2B contracts: brands, museums, galleries
— Heritage reconstruction commissions
— High-end jewellery & watch CGI
— Licensing & digital asset sales
— Collector editions & Tithonos-registered digital assets

Atelier is family-owned and intended to remain so.

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We accept a limited number of new commissions each year. Every collaboration begins with a conversation.

Managing Director: Eva-Maria Frey
Contact: info@heredisatelier.ch
TEL: +41 76 288 28 68