About cultefact
cultefact was created to exist at the intersection of culture, storytelling, nostalgia, design, and preservation.
Our team curates rare and iconic cultural artefacts — objects that carry emotional weight, collective memory, and historical significance — transforming them into immersive artistic installations and collectable experiences.
From legendary film and television props to music memorabilia, sporting history, and culturally defining objects, every piece we source is chosen not simply for rarity, but for the emotion it evokes: nostalgia, wonder, joy, identity, and connection.
Our philosophy is simple: culture deserves to be preserved beautifully.
Founder Tom Salvat is a serial creative entrepreneur, musician, AI business leader, published Forbes contributor, and lifelong collector whose career has taken him across the world’s auctions, private collections, studios, and cultural circles. Alongside building and scaling technology businesses internationally, Tom has spent decades sourcing and preserving iconic pieces of entertainment, music, sport, and cinematic history.
Before entrepreneurship, Tom was a published musician, with music released commercially through major retailers including HMV, Virgin & more during the early 2000s. His lifelong relationship with music, media, and popular culture continues to shape the emotional core of the brand. Today, his network, collector relationships, and passion for preserving culturally significant objects form the foundation of our curation process.
cultefact has a team of award-winning stage, set, prop and costume designers whose work spans TV, film, music, theatre, live performance, and visual storytelling. The team has worked across acclaimed productions and institutions including Shakespeare’s Globe, The Royal Opera House and multiple TV & films productions, developing a reputation for creating emotionally resonant spaces, atmospheric worlds, and visually striking narrative environments.
The cultefact team combines two complementary disciplines:
The preservation of cultural history and the art of immersive storytelling.
The result is a unique creative studio that transforms collectable artefacts into curated visual experiences and scenes — installations that feel cinematic, emotional, and timeless.
Every composition we create is designed to honour the story behind the object while elevating it into something sculptural, experiential, and museum-worthy.
This is more than collecting.
It is cultural preservation through art and design.
For collectors, enthusiasts, brands, and storytellers alike, we create pieces that reconnect people with the moments, characters, music, films, and memories that shaped them.
Because the objects we remember most are never just objects.
They are part of who we are.
