The World of Luxury Yachting

Exciting news for Rinck this fall of 2024: our team is preparing to take part in the Monaco Yacht Show this September 25-28. And, to give our first MYS experience twice the impact, we will have two display locations in the Principality during this event. First, a stand in the Parvis Piscine will showcase our contemporary furniture designs from collections presented over the past five years in Paris and Milan and exhibited in our Paris and New York galleries. But we will also have a stand in the International Yacht Company lounge to unveil an outdoor furniture collection created with Zuretti Design.

The driving force behind this quest for visibility at the industry’s most prestigious show is Rinck’s increased presence the past few years in the yachting world’s most demanding projects. The furniture department at Rinck has been manufacturing complex, creative, and exceptional pieces for numerous naval architecture ventures, working hand-in-hand with international specifiers and shipyards.

In many ways, yachting is now the most demanding business when it comes to manufacturing and finishing: Installations on vessels obviously entail engineering constraints with regard to weight, the mechanics and measurements of doors and drawers, furniture structures, weather- and wear-resistant varnishes, and more. In recent years, such challenges have been further complicated by efforts to source more virtuous, sustainable materials. Rinck – with its ability to respond to a vast variety of furniture orders ranging from 18th-century, museum-quality pieces to cutting-edge contemporary creations – is proud to be a part of the industry’s most exacting undertakings.

In conjunction with our first time as exhibitors at the Monaco Yacht Show, we are also delighted to announce that we have joined the select few who have the honor and pleasure of working on the Orient Express Silenseas, currently under construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique, to be operated as part of the brand reinvented by Accor. This vessel, with spectacular interiors born of the ever-inspired artistic direction of Maxime d’Angeac, will be the world’s largest sailboat and will establish a new technological gold standard for sustainability. It is also the first cruise ship that Rinck has worked on, penning a new chapter for our brand.

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Rinck is an interior design enterprise, an ambassador of French lifestyle, with the distinctive characteristic of incorporating onsite production workshops, thereby dovetailing the realms of creation and fabrication. By uniting these varied trades, Rinck can source the staff’s artistic and technical mastery, as well as the expertise forged by venerable traditions, as springboards for creativity. This savoir-faire, honed over centuries, is exercised by Rinck alone, or with select partners, in the execution of prestigious projects.

  1. The creativity of the interior design and decoration studio is born of a profound understanding of the historic languages of ornamentation. This mastery of the classic catalogs and their legacies allows greater freedom in interpreting aesthetic codes. The studio creates contemporary, inspired spaces that resonate fully with their owners. An essential prerequisite to our company’s approach.

  2. The professionals in our design studio, masters of the history and hallmarks of luxury furniture, annually design one full contemporary collection, along with many bespoke pieces for exacting connoisseurs and collectors. This expertise builds upon more than 180 years of design work in the most varied styles, creating hand-in-hand with our group’s in-house workshops. Possessing such comprehensive knowledge of materials and finishes, our furniture-design teams are wholly at ease devising the most complex pieces of furniture using wood, stone, leather, precious stones, both wood and straw marquetry, and even metal.

  3. Our company – boasting its own production workshops and approaching its second century of operations – brings together many skills specific to French decorative arts. Be it our boiserie and millwork workshops, our furniture and bronze workshops, or our design offices, more than a dozen forms of savoir-faire are expertly practiced at our three sites, each having its own venerable history, a legacy that is further enriched as it is taught by one generation to the next.

    They are complementary, often complex, traditional, or innovative, and combine the nobility of handcraftsmanship and the perfection of age-old techniques with digital precision and other new practices born of technological advancements. Their uses are dedicated to the making of exceptional pieces and are mastered by women and men who, with passion and respect, transform the material into something even greater than itself and bring to life all the interiors imagined by our designers and executed for our trusting clients.

     

  4. Joining in creative collaboration with passionate artisans who bring their savoir-faire to life, expertly honing raw materials into singular designs, is not only a strength, it is a choice. Rinck’s love for the decorative arts often finds expression in alliances with other companies, artists, and craftspeople who embrace the same values of excellence and aesthetics.

  5. Over the past several decades, Rinck has perfected a precise project-management process making it possible to undertake top-quality missions working with decorators, interior designers, and architects who are not only the most accomplished in their fields, but the most exacting, as well.

    More often than not, our references choose to remain discreet, as the owners of yachts and superyachts, luxurious New York City townhouses, and princely London palaces. Quite a few, however, are household names.

     

    Our multi-material methodology (wood, metal, glass, stone, etc.) and end-to-end process – from the work of the engineering and design department to the installation to the worksite supervision – have earned our clients’ steadfast trust. Each of these fitting and/or furnishing commissions is entirely customized and unique. Each new project is also another chance for us to adapt our savoir-faire to original requirements, improve our working tools, and further hone and broaden our skills to satisfy the needs of our specifiers.

Nurtured by 180 years of history, we believe in the perfect mastery of classic ranges, a prerequisite for contemporary design. Our cultivated relationship with the history of the decorative arts is rooted in France's heritage, but resolutely turned towards the world, the meeting of cultures and know-how. Our ambition is to create exceptional interiors that are full of colour, art and life, that blend seamlessly into their surroundings and are perfectly suited to the daily lives of their users.

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