Rinck’s interior architecture team takes you behind the scenes of their craft. Discover how each project is approached with creativity and dedication, reflecting our commitment to bringing our clients’ visions to life.
Inside the Interior Design Studio
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Interior architecture at Rinck does not seek to impose a vision. It settles into a reality: a place, a circulation, a way of inhabiting. When our architects speak about their work, it is never in terms of style or identity, but in terms of space. Before intervening, they observe how an apartment breathes, where light lingers, where it fades, which everyday gestures need to be eased.
Drawing comes afterwards, as a shared language. A sketch expresses intent, a floor plan organises use, a technical detail anticipates the artisan’s hand. Nothing is decorative; everything revolves around a simple question: how will the space welcome life? A shifted cornice, a realigned door, an adjusted height — modest decisions, yet decisive ones, often invisible to the visitor and nevertheless essential to the coherence of the whole.
This modesty structures the studio’s work. In each project, built-in furniture is not an object added on, but an extension of the architecture. A headboard becomes a surface that absorbs calm; wood panelling becomes a way of slowing the gaze; a dado guides movement more surely than signage. As Valentin Goux puts it, “drawing does not exist to be seen — it exists so that the room can function.”
Time is part of the process. A space does not reveal itself in a single gesture. Trials, revisions, and adjustments are inherent to the craft. A panel that is too glossy, a marquetry pattern that speaks too loudly, a marble that is too expressive: nothing is fixed until the place has found its balance. It is not hesitation; it is listening. Spaces impose their own rhythm, and the interior architect must learn to follow it.
This work is never carried out alone. The design office coordinates know-how, dialogues with the workshops, and navigates technical constraints. The glassmaker, the plaster craftsman, the mirror maker, the marble worker, the upholsterer: as many voices reformulating the drawing at the scale of the hand. The architect is not an isolated author, but the interpreter who orchestrates without overshadowing the others.
There is no spectacular signature in this way of working. From one project to the next, what endures is neither a style nor a recurring motif, but an attitude: to look attentively, to adjust with restraint, to let the space speak. Interior architecture does not seek to be noticed; it seeks to be right.
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Our activities
An ambassador of the French art of living, Rinck is an interior architecture firm whose hallmark lies in the integration of its own production workshops. The brand brings together the worlds of creation and fabrication. Through the alliance of these distinct disciplines, Rinck grounds its creativity in the mastery of its teams and in the expertise drawn from its traditions. A savoir-faire of nearly two centuries, serving prestigious projects carried out independently or in partnership.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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