Born of color.
Four pieces, hand-loomed.
Each piece is woven by hand from vulcanized colored cord, set with a hand-cast resin bauble, and finished with 18k gold plated brass. Numbered, registered, and presented in the maison's velvet case. Yes, the cord is the kind sold in fluorescent packs at the craft store. The maison considered alternatives. The maison preferred this one.
Founded on the principle that color is precious.
Rainbow is the work of Alexandra Gitlin, a designer who learned to weave at the dining room table while her father took meetings. She is seven and she is, in her own description, considered. The maison's debut collection, Atelier Loom, treats vulcanized cord, the kind sold in plastic tubs to children, as a fine material. The maison is aware of how this sounds. The maison declines to discuss it further.
"Gitlin is, by her own description, intense. The pieces are the same way."
"The founder is seven. The collection does not know this. We did not push the matter."
"She declined an interview but sent a list of demands. The work, separately, is excellent."
Every piece, woven by hand.
Vulcanized cord is hand-tensioned across the loom to seven-and-four-tenths newtons, knotted with the maison's signature double-clove finish, and set with a hand-cast resin bauble inspected at three light angles. The metalwork is brass, lobster-clasped, plated in 18k gold to a satin finish. No piece leaves the atelier without a signature, applied in pencil by the founder and traced over in gold pen by her mother.
