121 five-star reviews

The Avalon Letters

A sealed letter every month · by Benjamin Viulet

December edition · ships December 5th

Then €30,95 a month. Leave whenever you wish.

  • Ships worldwide
  • Mailed on the 5th
  • Sealed by hand

what arrives

this is one envelope, opened.

everything inside a single edition,
one thing at a time.

from the ones already inside

some of them wrote back.

"i lost my brother in march. i could not read. i could not write. the manuscript that came in april was the first thing i read all the way through. i don't know how benjamin knew. but he did."
— clara · london · avalon member
"i am a therapist. i read about the human condition all day. these envelopes are the only thing that reads me back. i started bringing the ritual cards into my own practice. my own therapist asked where i learned that one."
— mariana · lisbon · avalon member
"i am not the kind of person who buys things like this. i bought it for one month to prove i would cancel. that was three envelopes ago."
— james · brooklyn · avalon member
"i build software for a living. i spend twelve hours a day staring at screens. the first envelope arrived and i did not know what to do with paper anymore. i sat at my kitchen table for an hour, like a person from another century. i have not missed an opening since."
— henrik · stockholm · avalon member
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+1000 members
42 countries
9 editions sent

how to open it

it was made to be opened slowly.

  1. i.

    find your silence

    when the envelope arrives, do not tear it open. set it down and light a candle, then scan the ritual card and let that month’s song begin.

  2. open slowly
    ii.

    open slowly

    break the seal and take each piece out one at a time, in the order the ritual card gives you. the order is part of the ritual.

  3. let it land
    iii.

    let it land

    when you reach the letter, read it slowly. if something moves in you, stay with it for a while before you get up.

the archive

every edition is a world.

each one was sealed for the members of its month. the whole archive brings every one of them to you.

plainly

what you might be wondering.

is this a subscription?

yes. avalon is €30,95 a month, and every month a new sealed envelope is mailed to you, until you cancel. the whole archive adds every edition to your first order, with that first letter free. after that, it is the same €30,95 a month.

what comes in each envelope?

a signed and numbered fine art print (5.5 × 8 inches), the manuscript of that month’s story, a handwritten letter from benjamin, a book-mark, keepsakes made for that month, and a ritual card with the month’s song. six things, sealed by hand.

when does it ship?

avalon is mailed on the 5th of every month. join before december 5th and your first envelope is the december edition. with the whole archive, the editions ship within 3 business days of your order.

how do i cancel?

anytime, from my avalon in the menu, in one tap. there is nothing to write and nobody to call.

what is the whole archive?

every avalon edition sent so far, 8 sealed envelopes from letters to the subconscious to the winter between us, together with your first monthly letter, free. after that, avalon carries on at €30,95 a month.

do you ship worldwide?

yes. avalon has reached 42 countries. shipping is free in the united states and calculated at checkout everywhere else.

A sealed Avalon envelope, its wax seal unbroken

the december edition

it leaves the atelier on december 5th.

join before then and it is mailed to you.

Avalon, or the whole archive. One tap takes you back to choose.

Every Avalon edition so far, standing together

a letter, before you decide

i see you.

you noticed the flowers on the table before anyone else did. you always do.

you remember birthdays, and you ask the second question, the one that means how are you really.

and when was the last time someone did that for you?

when was the last time someone looked at you, only at you, and said: i see how much this costs you, and how beautiful you are while you carry it.

you have made an art of being the one who notices, and it is a lonely art, because the one who sees everyone slowly learns not to expect to be seen.

these letters exist to break that habit.

once a month, an envelope arrives with your name on it. inside there is an artwork, and a letter written to the part of you that no one asks about.

you do not have to earn it or be useful to it.

it only wants to look at you the way you have spent your whole life looking at everyone else.

i love you.
— bv

Two Avalon editions beside a sealed card for next month's artwork, three wax-sealed envelopes below
The Avalon Letters December Edition · Ships December 5th
€30,95 EUR