Designer Madeline Weinrib has shaped a sophisticated signature style that is at once timeless and modern. She brings a layered and luxurious sensibility to the world of contemporary design with her collections of heirloom quality carpets and artfully conceived textiles, accessories and home accents.

Madeline’s entry into the world of design was, in many respects, organic.  An established painter, she exhibited regularly throughout the 1990s before designing her first carpet collection for ABC Carpet & Home in 1997. Inspired by the challenge of translating painterly ideals to warp and weft, Madeline sensed an opportunity to carve out a new niche and to redefine what was at the time a conservative, ancient idiom. With her individual approach to pattern, palette and scale, her unorthodox, ultra-chic reinterpretations bring an unprecedented vitality to a centuries-old art form.

Embracing authenticity as one of her hallmark values, Madeline’s aesthetic is defined by her use of techniques that favour hand over machine and tradition over automation. Rigorous and process-oriented, her design approach is one of open-ended experimentation, reframing and refinement. She continually works with artisans around the world, seeking out fresh and creative perspectives. With a discerning, well-traveled eye she is committed to sourcing superior materials and transforming them in stylistically unexpected ways.

Lark Caramel, which is part of the Climbers & Ramblers collection, was first presented to acclaim in the United States in 2006 at Ralph Pucci in New York. The series includes fourteen carpets and runners as well as site-specific pieces. With consuming attention given to details of colour, weight and feel each carpet is hand knotted in Pakistan by virtuoso artisans using hand-spun vegetable-dyed wool. This series is an ideational amalgamation in which old and new and East and West are given parity, finding harmonious equilibrium.

Madeline Weinrib offers us a visionary ecology that expresses lightness and joyousness of springtime. Vitality and freshness imbue her designs. In Climbers and Ramblers the designer’s esteem and knowledge of historic visual motifs found in antique Persian carpets is evident. Conjoining them in unconventional ways within Western pictorial codes of late postmodernism allows Weinrib to deftly re-purpose these selected traditional Eastern elements in surprising ways. Her use of reiteration, mirroring, enlargement, displacement, juxtaposition and radical cropping infer continuity and timelessness as well as progression and expansion in space.