soft works of art
The exclusive rugs from the fabulous French brand Toulemonde Bochart are absolutely exquisite and like soft works of art under your feet. Here we invite you to meet the designers and creators behind them. We also give you a few ideas on design products that make a great pairing. We have a curated collection of their rugs on display in our showrooms - come in and see them for yourself! The entire Toulemonde Bochart floor rug collection is available to order.
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FOCUS ON | Toulemonde Bochart
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French brand TOULEMONDE BOCHART has become synonymous with fine handwoven rugs over the last 40 years. Using its own design studio and working with renowned designers and architects, Toulemonde Bochart is known for its exclusive rug design and manufacturing steeped in tradition.
For over 40 years, they have worked with designers to polish their creations in order to express their vision of the present, using or introducing new evolutions in the rug field. The close relationship with the weavers that endlessly renew ancestral gestures in the respect of the rug making tradition is a testimony to the quest of accuracy and design, in making the quality of these rugs.
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TOULEMONDE BOCHART is a family business founded in 1949 in the heart of the textile region of northern France. They turned to contemporary rugs at the end of the 1960s. A pioneer and visionary in the development of collaboration with renowned stylists and designers, Toulemonde Bochart have managed put 'creators at your feet' from the 1980s, with rugs that had become iconic. Designed by big names in design like Andrée Putman or Hilton McConnico.
Today, creation and innovation remain the key values of Toulemonde Bochart. Rugs by renowned or emerging designers and the collections of the integrated design studio breathe a certain spirit of the French 'Art de Vivre'.
View our Toulemonde Bochart collection >
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SONIA RUG by Florence Bourel
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SONIA RUG by Florence Bourel is a rectangular wool rug with geometric shapes. A new tribute or modern-day inspiration for this Sonia rug, where circles and lines criss-cross in a palette of soft colours.
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Florence Bourel is a French designer who lives and works in Paris. She creates objects, furnitures or scenography for prestigious brands including Saint-Louis, Toulemonde Bochart, Le Monde Sauvage and Hermès.
In 2012 the French brand Toulemonde Bochart asked her to design a new rug for their famous Designer Collection. At the same time, she started a collaboration with the French-Turkish company Kilims Ada. She is now designing several collections a year, across Europe, India, Nepal and Turkey.
Creation of carpets has become a real passion. Florence has recently extended her creative field to the pattern and surface design for home furnishing like wallpapers, fabrics etc. In her daring rugs and patterns, she uses powerful colours in smart and audacious graphics, playing a mix of textures and materials.
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'Contemporary product design must be creative, not only in the design of new products but also in the production and distribution methods' - says Florence Bourel
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Rugs and patterns represent an endless field of creation. Florence plays with color and texture, varying tactile or visual sensations. She imagines graphic landscapes, textures and colours emerge and bring out refined and timeless lines. Florence learns from the work of craftsmen (weavers, dyers and embroiderers), from the traditional motifs and techniques she discovered in India, Nepal and Turkey. By reinterpreting the elements of the past from different continents, or by imagining strong coloured atmospheres, Florence Bourel invites you to step into her unique and powerful creative universe, combining influences, styles and materials.
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FRAGMENT RUG by Réda Amelou
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FRAGMENT RUG by Réda Amelou is a graphic piece showing a clean edge and contrasting colour way. Movement is central to the design, showcasing an abstract composition of shapes that draws the eye to every side. Made in wool and art silk, the hand-tufted construction showcases the practical and textured quality of rug making. With the simplicity of solid colour and whites, the velvet moiré of this rug plays with the light, blending the effects of loops and cuts.
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Réda Amalou is a French architect who graduated from the University of East London in the UK. After several years in London architectural agencies working on various projects in Europe, he returned to France and joined Thurnhauer Architects.
In 1997, Réda Amalou opened his own agency in Paris: AW² Architecture Workshop. From the outset, he built the studio’s identity on a contextual approach to design.
In 2013, he founded his own furniture and accessories collection, under the brand Réda Amalou Design.
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HAND-KNOTTED
The drawing is made point by point following a model carried on a squared paper. The smaller the point, the more precise the drawing (this is the number of nodes). This technique requires more time, the work advancing about 10 cm per day.
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HAND-WOVEN
Hand weaving can be done on flat looms (pit loom) or on shuttle looms, a simple version of jacquard looms (looms). Here no knot, but a loop maintained by the tightening of the weft. A gluing allows the maintenance of the whole. This process can be applied to plains or simple geometries, like frames, stripes, squares etc.
A finishing workshop produces braided, overlocked or edged carpets in record time up to 6 meters by 4.
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Whether it is in the hours spent by the creators refining their creations to express their vision of the present, or in the days of weaving by the craftsmen tirelessly renewing their ancestral gestures in the respect of tradition, the search for accuracy is what makes the quality of the Toulemonde Bochart floor rugs. They have developed close links with their production workshops, in a permanent exchange of tradition and modernity, movement and serenity by following or initialising developments in the rug. This collaboration has always been done in mutual respect, and in that of environmental and social standards.
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HAND TUFTED
The design is printed on a canvas, stretched over a frame. The threads are stitched into this canvas by a gun, either manual or electric, to form the velvet. This velvet is shaved, inspected. The backrest is glued with latex to maintain the velvet, then protected by a canvas or mesh.
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CHATEAU DE SABLES by Vincent Darré
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CHATEAU DE SABLE RUG by Vincent Darré continues his watercolours peregrinations and discovers geometric universes in volume. A play on perspectives, this rug comes alive with warm and timeless colours. A true cubist cosmology. Vincent Darré personifies French creation, with his taste for decor, unusual harmonies and his dazzling coloured ranges. He is a master of eclecticism, and gently revolutionised the art of pattern and composition.
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Vincent Darré is an interior designer who has long moved in the most fashionable circles in Paris. Starting his career in the 1980s, he worked for Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Fendi, and Moschino, and only turned his hand to interior design in the mid-2000s. Since then, he has created an impressive roster of houses for some of the most glamorous people in the city and published a book documenting his work.
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APIDEA RUG by Samuel Accoceberry
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APIDEA RUG | With this drawing, designer Samuel Accoceberry offers us changing surfaces, between reptile skins and reflections in the water in a revisited camouflage effect. A whole dreamlike universe that will seduce colour lovers.
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Samuel Accocebery was born in Bordeaux and now lives and works in Paris and Biarritz. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Nancy and the Raymond Loewy School in product design. Samuel Accoceberry worked for 10 years for prestigious design agencies in France and Italy, such as Arik Levy, Antonio Citterio and Rodolfo Dordoni. In 2010, he launched his own studio and worked with various companies as a designer and art director.
Samuel was honoured in 2013 by the Grand Prix of Creation of Paris City for all his creations, as well as for his creative approach. He also received various international awards, including 3 Red Dot Design Awards and a German Design Award.
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LAKE RUG by Toulemonde Bochart
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LAKE RUG has all the appeal of a living room rug, but can also find its place outdoors thanks to its weaving in recycled polyester fibre worked in a tight loop or in high-density velvet. The ground it covers comes alive with shadow and light due to the structure of the design. Its ease of cleaning makes it an ideal rug for under a dining table.
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PROVENCE RUG by Toulemonde Bochart
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PROVENCE RUG is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. It is resistant to rain, moisture and other weather conditions. Due to these robust properties, it can also placed in rooms such as bathrooms, kitchens or under dining tables. Of course, it can also be used in normal living space, which is exposed to greater stress.
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Anna Utzon
Director of Content and Styling
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The latest Sunday Inspiration | interior - shadow + light
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