A single, discreet command layer for the movement of art: carriers, coverage, condition, and customs, held to one standard and one permanent record.
A single painting can cross four hands, three borders, and two policies before it reaches a wall. Today that passage lives in inboxes. Work of consequence deserves an instrument equal to its value.
Arpezio does not move crates. We orchestrate the parties who do: quoting, binding coverage, capturing condition, generating documentation, and holding a permanent, auditable record of every mile. Your handlers keep their craft. You gain the view.
Separate parts, played in sequence, heard as one movement.
Five parties, one passage. Arpezio is the arrangement between them.
The house
Consigns the work and carries the liability.
The carrier
Crates, collects, and moves it across borders.
The insurer
Binds cover for transit, storage, and stand.
The registrar
Records condition at every handoff.
The venue
Receives, installs, and returns what is unsold.
One instrument for the whole passage.
Six disciplines, previously six vendors and a spreadsheet, resolved into a single operating record.
Arpezio sits above Convelio, Crozier, Dietl, and your local handlers — carrier-neutral by design. Compare quotes, book shipments, and track every crate from one dashboard.
Insurance coverage shifts at everyhandoff — gallery, carrier, venue, return. Arpezio maps all five policies onto one timeline and flags gaps before the crate is collected.
Standardised condition reports, timestamped andattributed — produced in minutes, filed against the artwork's permanent record, and linked to the shipment and insurance trail.
Every document a shipment needs — commercial invoice, loan agreement, consignment note, CITES application — compiled from the shipment record, not from a Word template on someone's desktop.
Multiple overlapping exhibitions read as one calendar. Manifest per stand, with consignment status. Return logistics scheduled before the doors open. Deadline alerts to the people who must act.
Every shipment, every condition report, every insurance policy, every customs document — linked to the artwork's permanent record. Export everything at any time. If you leave, you leave with the archive intact.
The record that settles the question.
Photograph, annotate, and issue a standardised condition report in minutes, timestamped, attributed, and immutable. When a claim or a dispute arrives, the answer is already written.
The season, without the war room.
Booth manifests, inbound and outbound windows, courier assignments, and the works that did not sell. Three overlapping exhibitions read as one calendar, planned once, tracked live, closed cleanly.
“The value we hold is not ours. The standard of care has to read that way at every handoff.”
Head Registrar · Blue-chip gallery, New York
Arpezio is built to the working vocabulary of the trade: consignment, CITES, courier, crate list, indemnity. Not to generic software convention. Every account is opened by hand, configured against your existing partners, and supported by a named contact.
Custody is a promise before it is a feature.
We write every record as though it will one day be read aloud: in a claim, at a sale, or across a table where the answer matters more than the software. That is the only standard worth building to, and it is the one we hold ourselves to first.
The record is yours
Export everything, in full, at any time. If you leave, you leave with the archive intact.
We never see the wall
Client identities, prices, and provenance stay with you. Never shared, never sold, never used to train a model.
Written to survive scrutiny
Timestamped, attributed, immutable, and held to the evidentiary standard of an insurance claim.
An invited first cohort.
We are opening a small number of accounts to galleries, private dealers, and advisors who move work of significant value. Setup is done with you, in person where possible.
Thank you.
Your request has been received. We open accounts in small cohorts and will be in touch.