KICKER
Branding done differently.
Brand strategy for independent hotels, estates, and makers. The rarest luxury is specificity — starting with the land, history, and people already there.
Our Focus
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Strategy & Positioning
Brand Architecture
Visual Archive
Design Systems
Identity Design
Content Development
THE TERROIR ATELIER®
A unique process for creating a brand.
Turning a property’s land, history, and people into a brand no one else can wear. Rooted in seasons, soil, and community.
THE LATEST SUBSTACK
Electric Brutalism in the Wild
On adaptive reuse, brutalism, hydropower, and the daughter who finished her father’s work.
The Work.
Unearth it, grow it, speak it.
WRITING
Explore the ideas shaping our work.
Editorial and storytelling for the properties we work with. Stories about food, land, and the people who tend both. → The Dirt Dispatch on Substack.
THE MAKERS
Love Piles Up in a Place
On flavor, memory, and the slow work of keeping a place alive—a conversation with Fabrizia Lanza of the Anna Tasca Lanza Cooking School.
Or read it one Substack
ART DIRECTION
The process of belonging
to a place.
The Dispatches
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![A peaceful river scene with tall trees and blue sky reflected in the water.]()
de Chinampas & Baldí, Mexico City
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![A woman working at an ice cream shop or gelato stand, serving ice cream into a cone. The shop has a colorful and cozy decor with posters, a clock, and shelves stocked with various supplies.]()
Eisvogel, Zürich
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![Fabrizia Lanza]()
Anna Lanza Cooking School, Sicily
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![La Bagatelle]()
La Bagatelle, Copenhagen
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![Group of people outdoors in a garden or farm setting, listening to a person speaking. They are dressed casually for cool weather, with some wearing jackets, boots, and hats. The area has young plants growing and a backdrop of trees and mountains under cloudy skies.]()
Feeding Earth with Flame, Hudson Valley
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JLD Knives, Hudson Valley
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![From indigenous cuisine to sustainable hospitality — Sean Sherman of Sioux Chef, Jennifer Wagner founder of Field Office, and Magnus Nilsson of Pensionat Furuhem and Food Planet Prize Director united at a food and hospitality event.]()
Food Planet Prize, Stockholm
