Collections (Signature + Collaborations)
Palazzo approaches historical rugs as living material rather than preserved relics. Calle Henzel reworks classical patterning through cutting, sanding, washing, pigment application, and exposure to external conditions, shifting the rug from decorative surface into a sculptural field. What once served as stable ground becomes an active site—marked, interrupted, and rebuilt.
The collection developed through hands-on studio experiments with vintage carpets used as provisional platforms. These works were placed beyond the studio walls, where ice, frost, snow, and cycles of thaw acted directly on the fibers. Paint, abrasion, and manual incision disrupted inherited visual systems, allowing new structures to emerge from within the old. The process treated time and climate as collaborators rather than threats.
From these tests grew a parallel series of hand-knotted pieces, translating the irregularities of the altered originals into intentional construction. Each work carries traces of fracture, staining, and deformation, yet remains anchored in the logic of traditional weaving. Selected pieces incorporate the Diamond Dust technique and the Raw Ice Cut method, extending the studio’s ongoing investigation into surface, light, and material resistance.
Palazzo reflects Henzel Studio’s broader position: rugs understood not as static luxury objects but as contemporary works shaped by action, environment, and risk. The collection proposes a different relationship to heritage — one that allows history to be handled, unsettled, and made present again.
Image: CALLE HENZEL, Ferrin Cepparello (Palazzo 08), 2015 / 2025 (in-situ)
Jwan Yosef: Intimacies
The Intimacies capsule translates Jwan Yosef’s paintings into dye-injected chromogenic prints on velour, relocating painterly gesture to a tactile textile surface. Stretch, scrape, and touch — actions central to Yosef’s studio practice — define the work’s material logic.
Yosef’s work explores dualism and in-between states: authentic and synthetic, exposure and concealment, intimacy and distance. By shifting fine-art language into textile form, the series questions how medium shapes meaning and how the body meets the image. Each rug functions as a physically encountered painting, holding the viewer within the tension of presence, desire, and material.
Produced within the Henzel Studio Collaborations program and as part of The Dual Terrains collection.
Launched at Culture Edit Gallery, Los Angeles.
Image: JWAN YOSEF, Builder (01), 2011 and Builder (02), 2011 (in-situ)
The Milan (2010 – 2025) collection brings together hand-knotted rugs by Calle Henzel with works from the Henzel Studio Collaborations program, presented over fifteen years in conjunction with MiArt and Salone del Mobile in Milan.
The selection reflects the studio’s long-term engagement with the city as a meeting point for contemporary art, design, and material experimentation, where the rug has been positioned as both artistic medium and functional object.
Alongside Henzel’s own designs, the collection includes collaborations with Helmut Lang, Mickalene Thomas, John Waters, Anselm Reyle, Richard Prince and other invited artists. Each project developed through a shared process in which individual visual languages were translated into the specific conditions of hand-knotting—scale, texture, and structure—while retaining the character of the original work. Rather than reproductions, the pieces operate as parallel works, shaped by the logic of the loom and the physical presence of wool and silk.
Over time, the Milan presentations have formed an evolving archive of approaches to the contemporary rug: painterly, graphic, conceptual, and sculptural. Together they trace Henzel Studio’s ongoing effort to challenge the division between fine art and functional design, proposing the rug as a site where image, material, and use can coexist without hierarchy.
Image: Portrait of Calle Henzel. Courtesy the artist.
Henzel Studio seamlessly blends art and craftsmanship through Calle Henzel's signature collections and collaborations with over 30 renowned contemporary artists and estates, including The Andy Warhol Foundation, Nan Goldin, Mickalene Thomas, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Prince, Carsten Höller and more.
With a legacy of over thirty collaborations, including artists like Ashley Bickerton, Sanford Biggers, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Kim Gordon, Marilyn Minter, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, and many others, Henzel Studio has become a leader in the art rug movement. Renowned among architects, interior designers, and art collectors for its unwavering commitment to superior craftsmanship and artistic originality, Henzel Studio creates visually striking, handmade rugs that transform Calle Henzel’s artistic vision into museum-quality pieces.
The signature rugs are highly customizable, tailored to clients’ specific needs in size, color, shape, and materials, ensuring seamless integration into any space. Through collaborations with artists' estates, Henzel Studio continues to build on its legacy, with extensive collections developed with institutions like the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Tom of Finland Foundation.
Image: Carsten Höller © Pierre Björk
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