Setting the Dream of the New Orient Express to Music

The Design Office’s Symphony

Before the first wood panel is cut or the first bronze piece polished, Rinck’s design office takes the stage.
Acting as the project’s true conductor, it coordinates nearly thirty trades and partners: designers, engineers, marquetry specialists, glassmakers, upholsterers, lighting experts, master artisans… all contributing to the creation of a space where every detail finds its place.

At the heart of the workshops, drawings evolve, volumes take shape, and technical constraints are transformed into elegant lines.
The role of the design office is to ensure the perfect balance between aesthetics and feasibility—to translate an idea into reality without ever betraying its spirit.

In the complex context of a railway environment, every element must be conceived with extreme precision: material weight, mechanical resistance, fire safety, temperature variations from -30°C to +50°C, anti-vibration systems, circulation and ergonomics.
Here, creativity expresses itself through precision, and technique becomes a discreet language in service of beauty.

A Collective Work

For each project, the design office composes a true score, in which every artisan plays their part.
Detailed plans integrate materials, fastening methods, lighting systems, textures, and finishes. Several exchanges between the workshops and the craftspeople refine each element to ensure perfect harmony.

This constant dialogue—between technical mastery and artistic sensitivity—is the key to Rinck’s unique alchemy.
It requires balancing the decorator’s vision, the artisans’ gestures, and the constraints of a moving environment, while maintaining the fluidity and coherence of a space designed for travel.

From this collaboration emerges a collective work, where hand, eye, and material come together in a shared creative impulse.