The Brand
Each collection begins with a formal question: how tension between forms creates spatial readability, how the repetition of a motif generates rhythm, how color, at this scale and in this material, affects the perception of a volume.
Manon du Merle is an interior architect and textile designer, with expertise in luxury spaces and materials. Pierre Jungers is a graphic designer, former advertising art director, passionate about visual culture and decorative arts. Rugier is built around this dual culture: graphic and pictorial on one side, sensory and material on the other, with a shared passion for craftsmanship.
Rugier works with external designers based on a precise brief: the house's graphic approach, its refusal of gratuitous decoration, the requirement that a piece always starts from an idea. A tribute, an optical effect, a formal tension, an assumed cultural reference. Something that justifies the existence of the design.
Each collaboration produces a singular style, true to the universe of its author. What doesn't change: the designs tell a story, take you somewhere, and create a connection between the one who conceives them and those who observe them.
Our rugs are hand-tufted in Bhadohi, North India. The collections are produced in small batches. We work with several historical workshops, families who have been in the business for generations, with whom relationships are built on longevity and trust. It is this close relationship that allows us to translate precise graphic intentions into real objects.
The wool comes from New Zealand. Silk is used occasionally, where the design calls for a variation of light.
We work exclusively with GoodWeave certified workshops: no child labor, respect for the fundamental rights of artisans, and support for educational programs in production regions. A requirement that we consider a prerequisite, not an argument.
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Custom & collaborations
Rugier works with architects, decorators and designers on custom projects. Specific dimensions, custom palettes, special techniques. The same level of graphic excellence as for collections, applied to unique projects.
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