Artists, makers & designers
Teach, exhibit and create in the atelier, or help shape the spaces themselves. Paid properly, with room for your own practice.
The family club for the part of life you don’t want to automate.
A beautiful space that gives you back the time to enjoy meaningful experiences designed by masters of their craft.
Coming soon to San Francisco
Our vision
Having kids is the most human and fulfilling thing we do. Yet it has become lonely, joyless, and unnecessarily hard. We love being parents, but we miss being ourselves.Salotto ends that impossible choice.The people, the culture, the life we set aside come back, and we get to share it all with our kids.
sa·lot·to · noun, Italian — “living room”
A space to inspire the whole family.
The membership offering
For parents who want to make the most of the early years.
The experiences
Quality time for the curious family
- Classes for kids led by masters of their craft
- Pottery with a real ceramicist, pasta making with a local chef, building circuits with an EV engineer
- Time for parents to work, recharge and play
- Spaces to focus, wellness classes to unplug, and spontaneous dinners full of wine and laughter
- Seasonal celebrations for the whole family
- Lunar New Year shows, Christmukkah dinners, the city’s best festivals, and more.
The clubhouse
A second home for the intentional family
- We all have a right to beauty
- From furniture to plates, natural materials chosen for form as much as function
- Spaces that take children seriously and let parents be themselves
- Designed for lingering, serendipity and life’s small pleasures
- Open when the kids are up
- All day, rain or shine, seven days a week, especially on the days schools are closed
Tuesday, March 3
8:12
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Two families who weighed the same kindergartens last year are free for coffee Thursday. Join them?
Yes, pleaseSSalotto Concierge1h ago
Welcome to the neighborhood. Here’s the Saturday class our families nearby swear by.
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School’s closed Friday. Three families are sharing a sitter for the day. Want in?
The concierge
Peace of mind for the busy family
- Everything the locals know, from day one
- Our trusted source for every decision about your children, big and small.
- Less to organize, with a plan B built-in
- Every class and booking in one place, with on-call caregivers even for last-minute plans.
- Support beyond our walls
- From finding a nanny to booking sports classes and planning birthday parties.
Our story
Built by a family like yours.
Salotto was founded by Polina Melamed and Luca Tavazzani. Partners in life and in work.
Two big careers. Two little kids. Zero grandparents on this side of the ocean.
With no village nearby, we went looking for one in the city we’d chosen to call home. Along the way, we met many families just like us: building a life with kids far from where they started, without giving up what made life good before. Beauty, simplicity, community.
We’ve spent our careers building technology, and we believe in a future where it frees us to focus on what truly matters: the time we spend with our kids.
So we’re building what we couldn’t find. A family club for the part of life you don’t want to automate. For our kids, for families like us and for the city we love.
Coming soon to San Francisco
Childhood belongs in the city.
Does raising children have to mean leaving the city? We don’t think so. We grew up in Milan and Moscow, and we believe cities are extraordinary places for children to grow up in. Cities are where colors and sounds play together, where ideas collide and where cultures are created. Few cities do it as well as San Francisco.Salotto won’t be a consumer of the city, but a contributor. We’re building it in collaboration with San Francisco’s artists, makers, and chefs, to be deeply embedded in its cultural and civic community. So our families don’t just live in San Francisco, they belong here.
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