Most small businesses are more interesting than their websites. The wine bar with a regulars’ table, the tailor who remembers your shoulders, the pilot who has landed on the harbour thirty thousand times. Each one has something a template flattens out.
Mare Leborgne is a studio of one, in Sydney, building sites the way a good jacket is made. Measured first. Cut by hand. Finished to last.
A conversation before a single line of anything. In person where possible: at the bar, on the boat, in the workshop. What gets built depends entirely on what is actually there.
No templates, no page builders, no theme bought and reskinned. Typography chosen for your name, not for a category. Everything written and built for one business only.
Handed over properly, quick on every device, and simple enough that you can change your own opening hours. A site that ages well rather than one that needs replacing in two years.
Only a small number of sites are taken on at a time, because this is the only way the work stays what it is. That means some enquiries end in a recommendation elsewhere, and it is never about the size of the business or the budget.
It is about whether there is something here worth showing: a room, a craft, a way of doing things that deserves more than a template. If there is, the rest is straightforward.
Not a quote request. The start of a conversation. Answer as briefly or as fully as you like.