A private Solis wellness sanctuary at rest: a still dark stone plunge pool veiled in steam, lit by a single candle
case study  ·  solis, private members wellness

It needed to feel like a secret.

So we stopped it behaving like a service.

01  ·  in plain terms

Solis is a concept, and we say so.

self-initiated · no claims made

Solis is one of three self-initiated projects, built to show our method in full rather than describe it. There is no studio and no client, so you will find no members counted, no waiting list and no testimonials on this page. What you will find is the work itself: the thinking, the system and the craft, presented exactly as we would build it for you.

02  ·  the problem

A private world, dressed as a high street.

Picture a members studio for people who value discretion above all else. The rooms are quiet, the light is low, the offer is genuinely rare. But the brand met them in sage green with a stock smile, and asked them to book online for twenty percent off.

  • 01A soft lotus mark and a friendly sans: welcoming, and identical to every wellness studio on the high street.
  • 02New year, new you in the window. A discount where there should have been a door policy.
  • 03A grid of stock smiles and green juices: pleasant, and completely interchangeable.
The original Solis studio: a bright sage-green high-street reception with a lotus logo, a discount poster and a price list
the original · exclusivity, sold like a gym membership
03  ·  the thinking

Make it feel like a secret, not a service.

Three moves, all subtraction in spirit.

01

Lower the voice

The rooms are quiet. The brand should be too. Confidence rarely needs volume, and discretion is the entire promise here.

02

Commit to restraint

One mark, drawn once and left alone. A sun meeting the horizon, nothing more. Space does the work a busier identity would only crowd.

03

Let rarity speak

Off-black, warm sand, a single line of bronze. By application only, said plainly. The less it explains itself, the more it is worth.

04  ·  the identity

One mark, held still.

The Solis wordmark: Solis set in Reckless Neue, warm sand on off-black the wordmark · Solis, set in Reckless Neue
The Solis mark: a sun on the horizon, a single line through a circle the mark · a sun on the horizon

The lotus became a single line through a circle, a sun meeting the horizon. The friendly sans became Reckless Neue, quiet and exact. Off-black carries the brand, warm sand lifts it, and one line of bronze is the only ornament it allows itself.

  • wordmark

    Solis, set in Reckless Neue. Restrained and exact, never raised above a murmur.

  • mark

    A sun on the horizon, drawn in one unbroken line. The whole idea in a single gesture.

  • palette

    Off-black, warm sand, deep slate, one line of bronze. Quiet on purpose.

  • voice

    Restrained, restorative, rare. Stillness is the practice.

A hushed private Solis members' lounge at rest: a low bench with a folded robe, a candle and stone in warm low light
05  ·  the applications

A world built on restraint.

Nothing here raises its voice.

Two Solis membership cards on dark slate: the face with the mark, Solis and Alexandra Pemberton, founding member, and the reverse with the mark alone A Solis locker ajar in a dim changing room, a brass key in the lock on a tan leather fob embossed with the mark, folded towels inside A Solis welcome letter on deckle-edged cotton paper: an embossed mark and the line your membership has been approved, a dark stone weight at one corner
06  ·  before and after

The argument, settled side by side.

The rebrand, applied end to end: the new site to scroll, then the same Instagram account a world apart in taste.

The new Solis website, full homepage: dark hero, services and membership by application
the new site · scroll inside the frame
The Solis Instagram feed before: the generic soliswellness grid, green lotus and stock photography
the feed, before · a studio that looked like every other
The Solis Instagram feed after: the dark solislondon grid, bronze mark and quiet imagery
the feed, after · a room you would apply to enter

The grid is where a small brand is judged most often, and where the change is hardest to deny. Same practice, same care: a different idea of who is walking in.

07  ·  the turn

Somewhere, your business is still selling a secret like a service.

This page has been honest about being a concept, so be honest about this: if your customers saw your work the way you see it, your prices would be higher. They aren't yet. That gap has a name, and an audit.