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Henzel Studio is pleased to announce the inclusion of two Calle Henzel designs; Via Sebenico and Kastrup in Architectural Digest Italy and Architectural Digest France.

Calle Henzel has over the past twenty years translated his artistic practice as painter and collage artist into the medium at hand, positioning Henzel Studio as one of the most progressive luxury rug brands in the world. While remaining at the forefront of design, Henzel Studio’s foundation and raison d’être lies in the artisanal production of local communities in Nepal and India that dates back thousands of years.

Via Sebenico is a hand knotted, Persian weave made with Wool, Nettle, Lyocell, Linen and Silk (Photos courtesy of HENZEL STUDIO).

Henzel has collaborated with some of the most prominent names in contemporary art and artists foundations including Tom of Finland Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. His collaborations and own designs has been exhibited at prominent venues such as MOCA, Katonah Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art and The Goss-Michael Foundation. These actions have further elevated the studio as an influential and global cultural force.

Daniele Albright also embraces contradictions. “I love conceptualizing things in a digital space but making them in natural materials,” says the Los Angeles designer behind Videre Licet. “The digital space is my sketchpad, I very rarely use a pencil and paper,” Albright explains. And she brings those ideas to (non-virtual) life, in wood, metal and glass — substances that reflect her “deep respect for ecology,” she says, not to mention her love of tactility.

“You’re always looking at things closely — whether it’s the mass of a concrete slab or the intricacy of how leaves form and grow.”

 Smoked Rhizome table (photo courtesy of Videre Licet).

The organic and artistic process of Henzel has been the driving force in the development of Henzel Studio’s designs. He has over the years in an uncompromised fashion challenged the traditional conventions of subject matter, shape, finishings and special treatments as a result of painstaking research that includes vintage treatments, intricate surface compositions and even natural erosion – methodologies that further blur the distinction between art and design.

Kastrup is a hand knotted, Persian weave made with wool and silk (Photos courtesy of HENZEL STUDIO).

Judging from her root-like Smoked Rhizome table and gleaming Subtracted Cube armchair, Albright chose the right line of work. She’s certainly never bored. “One day you’re refining a design concept, another day you’re out materials sourcing, then the next you may be doing hands-on prototyping,” she says. “Design is also a profession that connects you deeply to the world because anything can be a source of inspiration,” Albright continues.