The shared salon.
The salon was never merely an event. In the Viennese tradition it was an intimate room where theory, practice and culture met: a conversation among people who had something to say and could listen to one another.
Today the circle follows scholarium's routes: Vienna, Zug, Istria, Madeira, Nova Scotia and small gatherings along the way. A portion of the conversations is kept privately so that good exchanges can be revisited and deepened.
The threshold is deliberate. Candour needs a circle whose members make a visible commitment to reciprocity and discretion.
One decision, not a subscription.
Participation begins with a one-time inscription. It opens one of 144 perpetual Salon Seats and is not renewed annually: twelve by twelve.
After full payment the seat may be freely transferred and resold. This does not promise a buyer, resale price, liquidity, appreciation or buyback. Seminars in the Studium, Privatissima, travel, accommodation and special formats are booked separately when attended.
Each first acquirer receives, when it appears, a signed and hand-numbered copy of the Katallaxie edition of «Win-Win» as a founding gift. The gift is not the purchased right; the Salon Seat is.
About the Katallaxie edition →144 · twelve by twelve · zwölf mal zwölf
Salon Seat 144
CHF 1,440 · once
- A place in the protected circle
- The salon's conversations, to listen again
- The digital library: twenty years of condensed reading
- Privatissima on one's own decisions, questions and ventures: reservations for members
- Access to seminars in the Studium without curricular obligation; attendance is booked separately
- Preferred invitations to gatherings and journeys
- Early access to offers that have proved themselves inside the kontor
Payment acquires the participation and access right described here. It is not a share in scholarium AG and not an investment product.
§What access means
The salon holds seminars and courses, dinners, long conversations and private work on individual questions. It is the social and educational threshold into scholarium, not the institution as a whole.
Privatissima make room for questions that fit no group: an important personal decision, a difficult theoretical problem, an entrepreneurial, scholarly or cultural venture, or orientation in education and the course of a life.
The circle is deliberately small because tested knowledge, lived experience and confidence are not indefinitely scalable. Hence the 144.