Future antiquities, selected rather than accumulated.
One cabinet, two registers: things already made exceptionally well, and things Hg Atelier imagines should exist.
Instruments that reward the hand. Mechanisms that make time visible. Objects that reveal something usually concealed. Made by their named makers; selected by Hg Atelier. Each entry links directly to the maker or product page.
A 49-Keywave multidimensional MIDI controller whose continuous surface turns pressure, lateral motion, vertical motion, velocity, and release into per-note expression.
Let a chord follow the shape of your hand.
The interface disappears into gesture. Electronic control behaves less like a panel of switches and more like an instrument under the hand.
The current black six-string Plini signature instrument: a headless ergonomic electric guitar with the N2 curved body, Arc TILT tremolo, and Plini-specific Fishman Fluence Open Core Classic pickups.
Pick it up. Let balance, reach, and touch explain the shape.
Ergonomic engineering and visual identity are inseparable from actual use. It is sculptural because the playing problem was taken seriously.
A professional synthesizer played with magnetic bows above a continuous touchless control field. Position, angle, and movement become pitch, volume, and timbral control.
Move through an invisible field and listen for the shape of the gesture.
An invisible physical field becomes a nuanced performance surface without collapsing into a novelty gesture controller.
A semi-modular parallel generative analog synthesizer built around two voice paths, two generative sequencers, a wavefolder, state-variable filtering, and a 32-point patch bay.
Give the machine a set of paths, then follow it into a melody neither of you knew was there.
It makes probability operational. Pattern can mutate, be interrupted, and then be held when something worth keeping appears.
A wide-band receiver for listening to the electromagnetic environment created by electronics, wiring, displays, motors, and other field sources.
Walk through a city with headphones and discover that elevators, lamps, laptops, and walls have secret voices.
Infrastructure that is normally silent becomes a material landscape you can inspect by ear.
A fixed-lens full-frame camera built around a dedicated black-and-white sensor rather than a color sensor converted in software.
Leave colour behind. Give the whole frame to light.
It achieves range by refusing a capability. Light, edge, structure, and tonal depth become the whole instrument.
A compact smart telescope combining automated pointing and image processing with an optical eyepiece designed with Nikon technology.
Carry an observatory into the night. Let the machinery settle, and give your attention back to the sky.
It removes setup friction without removing the act of looking. Automation becomes access to the sky, not a substitute for it.
A satellite communicator for when the journey goes beyond signal: compact, weather-ready, and designed for routes where self-reliance matters.
The beautiful object is not merely luxurious. It remains calm when the map becomes real.
A travel instrument rather than an adventure costume piece: SOS access, location sharing, waypoint navigation, and enough ruggedness to disappear into a black kit without looking theatrical.
A dedicated field recorder for ideas that arrive before the phone has finished becoming a phone.
The phone happens to record. TP–7 exists to remember.
One press begins recording without opening an app. Physical controls let you scrub, mark, edit, layer, and replay by touch; three configurable stereo connections let it enter a real recording setup; and dedicated storage keeps the archive separate from the rest of your digital life.
A portable composition instrument that makes sequencing feel architectural: black, disciplined, tactile, and ready for serious sketching anywhere.
Portable does not mean compromised. Portable means the studio has learned to travel elegantly.
Part sketchbook, part performance machine, the OP–XY earns its place by making pattern, melody, rhythm, and arrangement immediately touchable.
A portable SSD and hub that looks like it belongs in the Cabinet rather than in a plastic accessories drawer.
More storage for the places you go. More continuity for the work that refuses to stay home.
The appeal is not only capacity. It is the way the object makes technical utility feel deliberate: integrated cable, visible architecture, active cooling, and a silhouette that reads like a field instrument.
A small computer for big ideas: compact enough for the bag, powerful enough for experiments, prototypes, services, and elegant mischief.
A laboratory should be able to shrink itself and continue elsewhere.
What earns it Cabinet status is not price or nostalgia, but possibility. The Pi becomes a field brain, a controller, a tiny server, a music utility, or the start of an invention.
A self-heating espresso maker and portable milk frother for the hotel room, road case, observatory, or wherever civilized coffee has failed to arrive.
Wake the machine. Heat the water. Pull the shot. Make the foam. Continue the journey.
The Nano handles the difficult part—heating and extracting espresso away from a kitchen—while LattoGo adds proper microfoam without turning the ritual into a countertop installation. Together they feel less like camping equipment and more like a compact hospitality system.
A handmade English leather backpack that hides a modern field kit inside something quiet enough to age for decades.
Quiet outside. Capable within.
This is the counterweight to the electronics: Tuscan full-grain leather, London-made brass hardware, an interior laptop sleeve, and a rear luggage pass-through without the visual language of a tactical tech bag.
The Cabinet’s closest thing to a sonic screwdriver: a flat pocket instrument that illuminates, inspects, reveals, and points.
Reveal. Inspect. Point. Detect.
It earns its place because the functions are genuinely different rather than decorative: broad white light for the room, a focused spot for distance, 365 nm ultraviolet for what normal light conceals, and a green beam for pointing.
The no-compromise portable workstation: the largest MacBook Pro, the highest M5 Max configuration, and enough memory and storage to make the field kit a genuine studio and laboratory.
Bring the workstation. Leave the workstation behind.
For the Cabinet, the specification is deliberate rather than sensible: Space Black, 16-inch Liquid Retina XDR, M5 Max with the 40-core GPU, 128 GB unified memory, 8 TB SSD, and nano-texture display.
A compact field pen that closes small, posts to full writing length, and uses Fisher’s pressurized PR4 cartridge.
Write anywhere.
This is the operator choice precisely because it is inexpensive, unobtrusive, and proven: powder-coated black brass, a black clip, and no luxury signaling.
A portable high-fidelity stereo instrument for listening, making, and playing the room.
Carry a room with you.
More than a Bluetooth speaker: OB–4 adds FM radio, low-latency line input, disk mode, and a rolling two-hour recording buffer you can rewind and manipulate. The folding handle doubles as a stand, so it can move from studio to hotel room without becoming generic travel gear.
A single compact power block for the field kit: integrated international plug geometry, GaN charging, and enough ports to replace the pouch of loose adapters that usually follows international travel.
One block. Most of the planet.
The Cabinet version is the black 1-World² 5-Port Mini. Its built-in JP/US, CN, TW, UK, EU, and AU plug standards cover more than 180 countries, while two AC outlets, three USB-C ports, and two USB-A ports can serve up to seven devices at once.
What travels together: image, signal, recording, composition, computation, storage, inspection, coffee, and a dependable writing instrument.
The design studies are not merchandise and not claims of completed engineering. They are Hg Atelier proposals for objects that could belong beside this collection without lowering the room.
A moon held in two hands. A table that holds a conversation. A closer look at matter. A field opened by a single stone. A grown refuge for Earth or Moon. Imagined objects, proposed dimensions, material intentions, and engineering studies.
A pair of palm-scale controllers conceived as a carryable moon. Separate, they invite two-handed gesture. Together, they become a single sculptural object at rest.
A shared design surface for exploring three-dimensional models together. A dark glass plane gives the image a place to live, while physical controls keep the act of looking deliberate.
A compact material-observation station imagined for a quiet workbench. An enclosed viewing space, an accessible sample position, and a single deliberate control make inspection feel like an act of attention.
A Go board conceived as an architectural object: black stone, a quiet silver field, and stones with enough presence to make each placement deliberate.
A biodigital dwelling imagined as a grown refuge for Earth or Moon: a softly vaulted shell, ecologically alive, computationally shaped, and printable from organic matter and local mineral substrate.
The selected collection is the calibration field: if a speculative Hg object cannot sit beside the Seaboard, Plini, Leica, Atmos, Moog, and SOMA without looking silly, it is not ready.