Our story

Keeping the voices we don’t want to forget.

During a visitation, people share stories we had never heard. Then the day ends, and those words are gone.

I lost three of my four grandparents. Each time, at the funeral home, people came to tell us stories I had never heard: friends who had known them when they were young, cousins I grew up with and hardly ever see anymore.

Each time, I left with the same regret: I wish I had kept those stories. And those voices.

Maison Alora was born from that regret, and from a simple idea: that those words should stay. A vintage phone, placed discreetly in the room. You pick up, you talk, you hang up. Every message becomes an audio album and a booklet the family can listen to and read for the rest of their lives, in the voices of those who came.