In September 2024, Rinck is opening a new millwork and cabinetry design and engineering department based in Paris and Bourg-de-Péage, specializing in the interior-outfitting of hotel and restaurant projects. Services are provided by a dedicated center for costing, technical drawing, and project management, all meeting the exacting quality standards that have long defined Rinck, and tailored to the specific needs of each realm. The Hospitality team will collaborate with national and international partners to manage the production and installation of its projects.
A Specialized Hospitality Department
Opening this office is our response to the growing market demand for specialized hospitality solutions. At Rinck, we are channeling our vast experience and expertise into a dedicated department, the better with which to satisfy the industries’ requirements. This specialized center means we maintain a competitive edge in the business, overseeing works that demand special project pacing, technical expertise, and standards specific to the hospitality industry.
Amélie Chappedelaine, Senior Project Manager at Rinck, will be supervising the new Hospitality department, while Philippe Bouillant, a member of Rinck’s business development team for over thirty years, will bring his tremendous knowledge and experience. The millwork and cabinetry design and engineering office will also have a brand-new, specifically recruited, highly specialized team, including dedicated project managers, draftsmen, and estimators, responsible for scrupulously managing all dimensions of every interior-outfitting project, from beginning to end.
Production will take place in Rinck’s own workshops or could be subcontracted to hand-picked outside companies working under the Hospitality department’s rigorous supervision, ensuring consistent quality and meticulous project monitoring.
The Hospitality engineering department focuses on full interior work for a variety of hospitality establishments, including hotels, restaurants, and spas.
Rinck already has a good number of noteworthy hospitality projects to its name, such as the complete millwork, joinery, and ornamental carving of the Buddakan restaurant in New York, in collaboration with Gilles & Boissiet and Christian Liaigre, as well as the complete millwork and joinery at Hôtel La Mourra and Hôtel Le Blizzard in Val d'Isère. Other prestigious achievements include the millwork and paneling at L’Avenue at Saks in New York City, a restaurant and lounge designed by Philippe Starck, as well as the execution of another Philippe Starck design for Serge Trigano and Cyril Aouizerat inside Paris’s Mama Shelter hotel.
Discover our activities
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.
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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