Independent web studio

We turn the
light on.

A bakery with 762 reviews and no website is a good place that nobody can find. We build the page that makes it findable, out of your own photographs and your own words. Nothing borrowed, nothing generic, nothing you cannot change later.

Nothing genericYour photographs, never stock
You see it firstA live link before any invoice
You own itDomain and files in your name
AnywhereEnglish, French, Arabic

Chiaroscuro is what painters call the meeting of light and dark, the thing that turns a flat surface into a form you can believe.

Your business already has the form. Thirty years of it, in some cases. All it is missing is the light. That is the whole job.

What we make

Three things, done properly.

01

Websites

One page or ten, written and built by hand. No page builder, no template with your logo dropped into it. It loads fast because there is nothing in it that does not belong.

02

Identity

A mark, a palette, a typeface, and the rules for using them. Made to survive a shop sign, a business card and a phone screen without falling apart.

03

Care

Hosting, the domain, and the small changes that come up. New hours, a new photograph, a price that moved. One message and it is done.

Selected work

Six businesses. Six sites that did not exist.

alexine.example
Concept homepage for Alexine

Alexine

Bakery, Paris 18e

A 4.5 star bakery with 762 reviews and no website. Built around their own counter and oven photographs, with the hours and the address a neighbour actually needs.

cabinetfonteneau.example
Concept homepage for Cabinet Fonteneau

Cabinet Fonteneau

Dental practice, Paris 16e

Warm ivory and clay. Every fact on the page came from the practice itself, so nothing on it needed inventing.

souriredenfert.example
Concept homepage for Sourire Denfert

Sourire Denfert

Paediatric dentistry, Paris 14e

A practice that treats children. Softer type, bigger targets, and a form a parent can finish with one hand.

cabinetchemama.example
Concept homepage for Cabinet Chemama

Cabinet Chemama

Dental practice, Le Marais

Deep green and stone. Built to sit beside the shopfronts of the Marais rather than fight them.

cabinetbadal.example
Concept homepage for Cabinet Badal

Cabinet Badal

Dental practice, Paris 16e

Quiet, clinical, unhurried. The kind of page that answers a question instead of selling.

orthadent.example
Concept homepage for Orthadent

Orthadent

Health centre, Paris 11e

Listed online with a domain that no longer resolves. The site was rebuilt from the ground up, on an address they would own.

These are concept builds, not live client sites. Each one was designed unprompted for a real business that had none, using photographs published by that business. Every photograph remains the property of the business shown.

How it goes

You do almost nothing.

01

We look

Your listing, your reviews, your photographs, and what people already say about you. Most of the site is already there before we start.

02

We build

A real page with your real content. Nothing greyed out, nothing marked coming soon, no placeholder text.

03

You look

You see the finished thing on a live link before any money changes hands. If it is wrong, we change it. If you walk away, you owe nothing.

04

You own it

The domain is registered in your name. The files are yours. If you ever leave, you take the whole thing with you.

What it costs

One price, said out loud.

One page
from EUR 490
  • Everything on a single page
  • Your photographs, edited
  • Map, hours, phone, and a working form
  • Domain and first year of hosting
  • Live in about a week
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Full site
from EUR 890
  • Five to eight pages
  • Gallery, team, services, contact
  • Written with you, in your language
  • Booking or enquiry flow
  • Domain and first year of hosting
  • Live in two to three weeks
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Care
EUR 29 / month
  • Hosting and the domain renewed
  • Unlimited small changes
  • Backups and updates
  • Answers within one working day
  • Cancel whenever you like
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Prices are for the build. The domain costs what the registrar charges, and it is registered in your name, not ours.

Get in touch

Send us your address. We will send back a mockup.

Tell us the name of the business and where it is. Within a few days you get a link to a finished page built for it, with your own photographs in it. If you like it we talk. If you do not, keep the link.

hello@chiaroform.com @chiaroform Working from Algeria, building anywhere
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