PASSAGE

For its 2023 collection, Rinck wanted to explore the ties between nature and mankind’s intervention therein. A house’s informal entrance, often accessed through a side or back door and traditionally known as the “mudroom” in English country houses and American homes, is the symbolic point of passage from outdoors to indoors, from vegetation to civilization. It seemed a space conducive to creative reflection and inspiration. Following these reflections, Rinck presents a kind of mise en abyme of its intrinsic connection to matter, to natural materials, paying homage to the very foundations of its trades. By featuring raw wood, or by imitating nature with trompe-l'oeil painting recalling onyx, the collection’s elements tease and intrigue the observer. Vegetation is invited to reclaim its rightful place, making this entrance to the home, this transition between two worlds, an embodiment of our uncertainty about our planet’s future, as questions of ecological disaster and climate crisis loom on the horizon. What will be left of our creations? Will nature take over? What if someone were to rediscover this room 500 years from now? The end of the industrial world may sound frightening, but it could also be a transition in its own right, a time of great hope and new beginnings.

Rinck is an interior design company specializing in furniture, decorative arts, and boiserie, respecting the legacy of the Ensembliers Décorateurs to which the firm is heir. The contemporary collections from Rinck demonstrate how firmly the company stands at the crossroads of innovation, creation, and savoir-faire, bringing into sharp focus the rare quality of an establishment that is home to both craftspeople and designers, artisans who so passionately inspire and take inspiration from one another that, at times, it blurs the boundaries between their trades. A modern and exacting vision.