The rooms
Seventeen rooms, and one of them is always yours.
Institut Solène keeps its rooms in one index. The public house is open to anyone; the rooms below open with an account, and the deeper ones with a tier. Nothing here is a course — each room keeps part of the household’s record.
Arrival
1 roomsThe House Today
This week’s practice, the open chapter, the standing rules of the house, what is unresolved.
The standard
4 roomsThe Generational Handbook
The living standard of the house: how we greet, host, write, dress, receive, and what we never do. Versioned and printable.
The Six Strands
Evergreen lessons across the six strands, with reading time and key points.
Family Chapters
Guidance banded by age, written for the guardian to deliver. No accounts for minors.
The Protocol Library
Forms of address, the shape of a formal letter, the running order of a dinner, variation by country.
The rooms
6 roomsThe Table Room
Seating plans, order of service, conversation, host and guest duties, wine courtesy.
The Letter Room
Drafts for invitations, acceptances, regrets, thank-yous and condolences. Drafts only: you send.
The Wardrobe Room
Dress codes decoded, restraint, packing for a house, a season and a room.
The Guest Book
Who came, what they were like, what to serve them next time. Read by the table room and the occasion brief.
The Boardroom
Meeting conduct, introductions round a table, being new on a board, disagreement with composure.
The Travelling House
Being received and receiving abroad, house guests, hotels, yachting and aviation courtesy.
The practice
4 roomsThe Practice Room
Weekly drills with a one-line self-check and a household streak. For the house, not for a score.
The Seven Studios
Table geometry, the invitation decoder, dress codes, gifting and courtesy, and the rest.
The Solène Assessment
A private self-audit across the six strands. Not a qualification, never ranked against others.
Two-Minute Rescues
Forty awkward moments, searchable by situation, each with the exact words to say and the one move that makes it worse.
The house
8 roomsThe Seven Voices
Each of the seven, and each able to write from your household’s own record.
The City Circles
Member-declared circles by city. Members may create their own gathering and invite whom they choose.
The Household Brief
One printable page: the house standard for new staff, a guest, a housesitter, a new partner.
The Family Year
A printable annual record: what was taught, what was practised, what changed, what comes next.
The Handover Letter
What this house believes, what to keep, what to forgive and what was never resolved, versioned like the handbook.
The Remembrance Calendar
The names this house keeps, with an annual prompt for a line of memory. Private, never shared, never ranked.
The House Seal
A monogram for the handbook cover and the letterhead. We invent no heraldry and grant no arms.
What a locked room says
“This room opens with a tier.”
The Threshold account is free and never expires. It opens the arrival room, one sample lesson from the first strand, and a blank handbook you can try. Everything else waits quietly.
In one paragraph, for the record
This is the room index of Institut Solène, listing every room a household may open and the tier that opens it: the Generational Handbook, the six strands, family chapters, the practice room, the table room, the letter room, the wardrobe room, the boardroom, the travelling house, the brief and the year.