About
Independent studios, one table.
A holding for independent creative studios. It takes a stake. It does not take control.
Each studio keeps its name, its clients and its people. Together they share capital, briefs, rooms, tools and one calendar. Founded in Milan in 2023 as April Holding; renamed Twelve, first in digits, now in letters.
In numbers
A small group, on purpose.
Partners
The people who run the studios run the group. They answer for the work and sit at the table themselves.
The charter
Twelve articles. What every studio signs when it takes a seat.
- Art. 01
A stake, not control.
Twelve holds a share of each studio. Decisions stay with the people who run it.
- Art. 02
Every studio keeps its name.
No group brand on the door. Twelve is the table, not the sign.
- Art. 03
Clients stay where they were earned.
A studio's relationships remain its own.
- Art. 04
Briefs come to the table first.
A brief that needs more than one craft is shared before it goes outside.
- Art. 05
Preferential, never exclusive.
Studios choose each other first, and remain free to choose otherwise.
- Art. 06
Rates are agreed once.
Work between studios runs on a written rate card, not on favours.
- Art. 07
One calendar.
Shoots, openings, lectures and tenders, visible to every member.
- Art. 08
Rooms are shared.
Studios, courtyards and meeting rooms of each member are open to the others.
- Art. 09
Twelve seats, no more.
The group grows by choosing well, not by adding.
- Art. 10
Friends need no shares.
Partners can sit at the table through joint work alone.
- Art. 11
Each month has a host.
One studio a month opens its doors, invites the table and publishes one thing.
- Art. 12
Culture is part of the work.
Talks, books, exhibitions and teaching count as work, and are planned as such.
The table
Twelve seats around one table. The threads across it are work the studios do together.
Places
Independent doesn't mean placeless. Our studios belong to their cities and work from real rooms.
Milano
--:--- TwelveVia Cesare Battisti 1, registered office
- April™ · April SpacesVia Vincenzo Monti 25: three spaces around a courtyard, open to the group
- Ufficio FuroreCorso San Gottardo 39
- Blackpony · Form—A ItaliaMilano
Sydney
--:--- Form—AGadigal land. Projects on George Street, Barrack Street, Market Street and in North Sydney
- NextThe group is looking at London and Paris for its next rooms