Walking on Clouds

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IN THE

SPOTLIGHT

Walking on Clouds

by Désirée Sormani - ph. by Tim A. Marquardt

OT’s carpets are true works of art, stimulating the mind and the senses with their beauty and sumptously soft richness. Bespoke design and crafting are the secrets of its four-decade success story

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e all want to feel we are walking on clouds when we slip off our shoes and step into our homes or aboard our yachts. A rare privelege indeed but one granted by OT. Its sumptuously lush carpets are true works of sensual art. The OT story began over

40 years ago and in the intervening decades, Oliver Treutlein - with the help of his wife, Elke - has developed his artisan business into one of the leading international bespoke carpet companies. Crafted by hand from luxury natural fibres such as pure silk, cool linen and ultra-fine New Zealand virgin wool, these carpets really are unique hand-tufted masterpieces. They have been adding the perfect finishing touch, the perfect dash of flair, to the largest and most spectacular yachts plying our

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In these images, close-ups of the Topkapi Collection, one of OT’s most exclusive products. OT now fo-cuses mainly on luxury yachts and is a touchstone for the world’s leading yards (Lürssen, Heesen, Abeking & Rasmussen, to name but a very few). Below: Elke, Oliver and Julia Treutlein. OT remains a family company

oceans since OT first entered the nautical arena 35 years ago. “It grew out of a passion for sailing and yachts,” confesses Oliver Treutlein who now works mostly with the leading international custom-build shipyards. Why? Because OT has the creative talents to do the near-impossible, with all of its glorious creations handtufted in the German town of Meerbusch. “When I started out in 1985, I made the carpets myself with just two employees to order for our clients who were interior designers and architects back then,” laughs Treutlein. This laid the foundations for OT’s future focus and success: creating custom designs for custom projects. “From the beginning, this was the big difference with other competitors,” adds Oliver. “Clients like working with us because they know we create a new design for each new project. Everything is the highest quality from the very first sketch to the installation phase. Our other big advantage is that we are still a family business. Our daughter Julia is now in charge of Project Management, our son-in-law Max is following in my footsteps. Despite the difficulties of the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, we are still delivering projects not just on time but also with a very modest or no extra cost”. www.olivertreutlein.com/en

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