A collection that gives its own tour.
Show one code to the room and every work in it will answer. Guests scan any piece with the phone in their pocket, with no app, no account, and nothing taped beside the frames, and the collection speaks: the work, the artist, the story in the voice you chose to tell it.
Curate it once. Guests explore on their own.
Every tour is drawn from the living record Cove already keeps: the same record that holds the values, the provenance, and the stories. A tour is simply the slice of it you choose to open.
How deep the record opens.
The essentials are always shared — artist, title, the story of the work. Provenance, your own reflections, or values open only if you switch them on. Different evenings can tell different stories from the same walls.
Values stay hidden unless you decide otherwise.
A pass, a phone, nothing else.
Create a pass and show the code to the room. From that moment, any guest can scan any piece with the phone already in their pocket — no app, no account, no sign-up. The pass expires on its own: half an hour, the evening, or as long as you say.
The collection introduces itself.
The work, the artist, the movement, the story of how it entered your life. And when a guest wants more, they simply ask — Ask Cove answers questions about any piece you shared.
Where it gets used.
Hosting at home.
Dinner guests wander with their phones and the collection introduces itself, piece by piece, exactly as much as you decided to share this evening.
The visit that matters.
A curator, a fellow collector, an advisor. Open the deeper layer for them: provenance, exhibition history, literature — the record behind the wall.
The next generation.
Children and grandchildren tour the collection with your stories in their ears. The knowledge passes with the objects, not instead of them.
Halls that explain themselves.
A hospital corridor, a corporate lobby, a foundation's gallery. Every work on view can speak for itself to whoever stops in front of it.
They see only what you share.
Access is set by pass, by piece, by evening. The dinner guest sees the works and the stories you picked, and never a value. The curator sees the scholarship. Your family hears everything.
Every pass is yours to give and yours to revoke, and each one expires on its own — after the evening, or on whatever clock you set. When the party ends, so does the access.
See it from a guest's hands.
The demo includes the tour experience: point a phone at a work and watch the collection speak. A member of the Cove team will reach out to schedule it.
Thank you.
A member of the Cove team will be in touch shortly.