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The uniquely lush textural beauty of OT’s one-ofa-kind carpets is achieved through meticulous sampling and sourcing of the finest quality materials

Oliver Treutlein has been perfecting every aspect of the art of bespoke carpet making for 35 years and now the stunning creations that emerge from his Düsseldorf-based company adorn the world’s most famous superyachts, supercharging their sumptuousness and luxury

by Mary Hagerty

Anyone lucky enough to step barefoot onto an OT carpet will have felt they were walking on clouds. Such heavenly perfection does not come easily. In fact, every carpet that leaves the OT factory outside Treutlein is flanked by his wife, Elke, daughter Julia, and son-in-law Max. His pride in both his art and his craft goes back to the business’s earliest days when Oliver Treutlein perfected an incredibly versatile carpet-making technique called hand-tufting that allows Dusseldorf is a completely one-off creation, designed individually, OT’s skilled craftspeople to use fibres of different thicknesses and then painstakingly hand-tufted from luxury fibres spun to order lengths to create utterly sumptuous textural effects. The results have from the very finest materials, such as silk, linen, virgin New Zea- a porcelain-like beauty and the quality three-dimensional maps of land merino wood and bamboo. some pristine undiscovered planet. Oliver Treutlein, who founded OT over 35 years ago, is ‘passionate According to Elke Treutlein, the current trend is for lighter carpets about personal’ and that insistence on a hands-on approach is the that add a fresh crispness to any ambience. A case in point is the secret of OT’s success: “We develop carpet design and structure to carpet created for the spectacular 80 square metre main saloon inspire,” says Treutlein. “Our only focus is guiding the client on their aboard Abeking & Rasmussen’s 68m M/Y Soaring. “The goal was dream of a unique handmade art carpet made just for them, a carpet to create a carpet that interacted and created an atmosphere with that will be with them for decades in their private environment”. all the other materials and designs in that specific room,” explains Every step of the carpet’s early life is followed with fervour: from Treutlein. “We always want the client to want to spend time with selection of just the right material to the dyeing of that material. the overall feeling”. Aboard Soaring, a huge expanse of crisp creThen, of course, the actual making of the carpet and, finally, the am New Zealand wool carpet gleams to sublimely luxurious effect laying. Even at this stage, the carpet is accompanied to its new home against dark gloss veneers and furnishings in the dining area of the in OT trucks by Treutlein’s longstanding team of expert installers saloon in particular. The interior designer, Focus Design, chose a who use a special stretching technique to guarantee that cloud-like tone-on-tone contemporary look with a vaguely Art Deco motif. underfoot feel and enduring quality. The resulting carpet seems to glow as much as contrast against dark OT is now the leading bespoke carpet company for the notoriously richness of the wood, its pristine softness reflected in the mirrored exacting superyacht world, working with big-name international surface of a wide dividing column. The result is a rich and divinely yards from Abeking & Rasmussen to Lürssen and Heesen. But de- elegant at once. OT has done it again, brilliantly intuiting the perspite its success, it remains a resolutely family business in which fect finishing touch for a glorious space. www.olivertreutlein.com

This page, the dining area aboard the 68m Soaring where OT’s pristine wool carpet contrasts to crisp perfection against dark glossy wood. Facing page, further examples of OT’s unrivalled skill in creating three-dimensional patterns