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tapis rouge catalogue 2024

tapis rouge catalogue 2024
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tapis rouge catalogue 2024

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Introduction
Atelier Tapis Rouge is a luxury rug company based in Milan, renowned for its heritage in rug-making with roots in ancient Persia. The company focuses on sustainability and craftsmanship, producing rugs in Nepal using hand-knotting techniques and sustainably sourced materials.
Design and Production
The company draws inspiration from nature, architecture, and cultural heritage to create intricate designs. The production process involves hand-knotting, hand-weaving, and carving, supporting a community of skilled artisans. Each rug is designed to last a lifetime, combining traditional techniques with modern innovations.
Techniques
Key techniques include hand-knotting and hand-tufting. Hand-knotting involves tying individual knots by hand, allowing for various finishes and the use of different fibers like wool, silk, and bamboo silk. Hand-tufting uses specialized tools to create distinctive textures and patterns, with knot density playing a crucial role in the design's intricacy.
Showroom and Expansion
The Milan showroom is located in the historic Brera district, reflecting the company's commitment to creativity and design. CEO Aaron Meilech discusses the company's future strategies, emphasizing the importance of staying aligned with market demand and expanding globally.
Interview with Aaron Meilech
Aaron Meilech shares his family's long history in the carpet business and his journey into the industry. He discusses the challenges and successes of creating contemporary rugs and the company's plans for expansion, particularly in Milan, the design capital of Italy.
Conclusion
Atelier Tapis Rouge continues to innovate while preserving traditional rug-making techniques. The company aims to create rugs that are both artistic and functional, catering to diverse markets worldwide.
Design Philosophy
Natalia Enze, Head of Design at Tapis Rouge, emphasizes the importance of carpets as tridimensional centerpieces in interior design. She views carpets as objects that balance the entire design concept, integrating them with other elements like furniture and lighting to enhance the overall aesthetic.
Influences and Inspirations
Enze draws inspiration from Milan's architectural heritage, appreciating the city's blend of historical and modern elements. She incorporates these influences into her work, aiming for a balance between tradition and innovation.
Sustainability and Materials
Sustainability is a key aspect of Enze's design philosophy. She favors materials like glass, metal, natural stone, silk, and wool, seeking to reduce environmental impact while maintaining style purity.
Carpet Collections
  • PLANET EARTH Collection: Designed by Margo Trushina, inspired by Iceland's landscapes, featuring organic textures and patterns.
  • TRATTO Collection: Celebrates the act of drawing, with rugs featuring dynamic shapes and lines.
  • ABSTRACTION III Collection: Focuses on the harmony of colors and shapes, reflecting the inner world of humans.
  • ELETTRICO Collection: Inspired by the electromagnetic spectrum, translating light frequencies into fluid forms and color gradients.
Conclusion
Tapis Rouge's approach to carpet design integrates artistic expression with functional interior design, emphasizing the role of carpets as central elements that enhance and balance the overall aesthetic of a space.
Product Specifications
Detailed descriptions of various rug collections, highlighting their design inspirations, materials, and specifications. Each collection is characterized by unique themes and craftsmanship, reflecting historical and cultural influences.
Design and Customization
The document emphasizes the ability to create custom-made rugs tailored to specific needs, including size, color, and shape. A palette of over 560 thread colors is available, and designs can be adapted for various environments such as residential, hospitality, private jets, and yachts.
Contract Projects
Atelier Tapis Rouge offers bespoke solutions for diverse settings, including retail, hospitality, and luxury transportation. The focus is on combining aesthetics with functionality, ensuring each project meets specific technical and design requirements.
Technical Information
Details on materials, knot density, pile height, and techniques are provided for various collections, highlighting the use of wool, bamboo silk, and recycled materials in different proportions and techniques like hand-knotted and hand-tufted methods.
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Products index One step ahead of trends. Essentially sustainable. Contemporary design that brings to the surface the complexity and the quality of a hand-made rug. Tapis Rouge General Catalogue TAPIS ROUGE

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Atelier Tapis Rouge is a luxury rug company based in Milan. We carry forward the rich legacy of rug-making, tracing back centuries. Our story is rooted in the traditions of ancient Persia where spirituality, tradition, and craftsmanship were blended, and it continues in the contemporary rituals of everyday life, within interior design projects, drawing new expressive languages and new meanings. The true essence of the home. The carpet sets the stage for tranquil living, architectural grounding, cultural oasis and contemporary rituals. Tapis Rouge General Catalogue Atelier Tapis Rouge is a luxury...

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Production C CD O "T <■+ —I Atelier Tapis Rouge, in each step of its entire production | cycle, reflects on trends, modern innovations, and architectural and interior design demands. Our collections with 330 designs are a portrayal of our approach. To make our rugs, we use a variety of techniques designed to make the most intricate details and diverse surfaces look their best. Hand-knotting, hand-weaving and carving are among the main techniques used by our artisans. Our production helps to support a community of skilled artisan craftsmen and their families to ensure that the ancient techniques...

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Pile height Knot density PRE-WASHING After the rug is hand-knotted, we wash it with special equipment, before stretching it for drying. KNOT LEVELING AND STRETCHING To ensure that the pattern lines are exactly as on the sketch, an alignment and stretching step is necessary in the production process of our rugs. This process is carried out by master craftsmen, as it requires high precision. 8 Tapis Rouge General Catalogue Atelier Tapis Rouge Productoion Different pile height CARVING AND FINISHING This is one of the most important and exciting stages in which the design comes to life, revealing...

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HAND-TUFTING A rug-making technique produced by master artisans employing specialized handheld tufting guns or needles. These tools enable controlled yarn insertion through a meticulously stretched canvas, tightly fastened to a robust frame. As the yarn is intricately pushed through the canvas, it forms loops or piles on the rug’s surface, enabling artisans to craft distinctive textures and patterns. The depth of intricacy within the design is calibrated through the manipulation of knot density. This parameter dictates the number of yarn loops per unit area, ranging from sparse, open designs...

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With each creation, we aim to weave together an immersive experience that celebrates the magnificence of natural materials and showcases their timeless beauty. Milan Showroom Our New Rug Showroom in Milan’s Historic Brera District. You can find us in via Borgonuovo 26, entrance Via dell’Annunciata, Milan. Tapis Rouge General Catalogue That of «Dwelling» has always been a concept close to our hearts for its practical and emotional meanings. Living for us means living in a place while being inhabited by it; the place enriches us with its history, so we chose the heart of the Brera district to consolidate...

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Interview Aaron Meilech — Tapis Rouge’s CEO, shares strategies for the future of the company and other clever stories around the world of rugs. How did you get into the carpet business? Aaron Meilech: My family has been in the carpet business for several hundred years. Rug making has been the work of many of my great-grandparents; my cousins still make rugs in different parts of Asia and the Middle East. Long ago, they asked me to help organize the production of lost Bukhara carpets. Initially, I considered it as almost a humanitarian project. However, this experience brought back many memories...

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Now that you are about to open a showroom in Milan, Italy’s design capital, where do you want to expand the business in the next few years? A.M. Milan is the world capital of design, so opening a Milanese branch was an obvious choice. Over the years, we have realized that our carpets arouse interest and are in demand worldwide. Here in Milan, we also have the best opportunity to collaborate with many professionals, expanding the company’s creative possibilities and better understanding trends in the design world. We produce carpets that we ship worldwide, but each market has a different taste,...

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Natalia Enze Interview Natalia Enze Tapis Rouge General Catalogue Interview Natalia Enze — Tapis Rouge’s Head of Design, on rethinking the rug as a project’s tridimensional centerpiece. What made you decide to become an architect at the beginning of your path? Natalia Enze: I have been drawing since childhood. As a child, I mainly painted houses and horses. When my parents bought me a Baumeister gross block construction set, they unwittingly helped shape my inner world. That’s how I chose to become an architect. By the way, I haven’t given up on horses either; I still draw them, and riding is...

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Designers We celebrate the coming together of creative minds worldwide to inspire and innovate. Our international team consists of the most talented designers, architects, graphic artists and skilled craftsmen who work together to create, express and share their passion for art and design. We collaborate with a network of professionals who share our vision to help promote the philosophy of sustainable and timeless design. and natural pigments varnish. This does not mean that I want to abandon historical styles, but rather look for solutions to preserve them and create something new at the same...

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PLANET EARTHcollection designed by Margo Trushina Aerial Earth 29

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PLANET EARTH collection The pristine landscapes of ICELAND, details of grounds and mosses observed in a journey from the macro to the micro, inspired the PLANET EARTH collection designed by MARGO TRUSHINA. The sampling of organic textures and patterns, as preserved in their inviolability over the years, has made it possible to carefully reproduce the soft appearance, the complexity of nuances, and overlapping colors of natural surfaces, from moss in bloom to the luminous spectrum of glaciers, to streams of water, reminding us that everything has a time. PLANET EARTH is a tribute to nature’s strength...

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