denis colomb
Born in Aix en Porvence, France, designer Denis Colomb graduated from the famed I.S.A.D. Institute Superior Architecture and Design in Milan. Working as an architect in the 1980’s and 90’s, he collaborated on boutiques for fashion designers in Paris, New York and Tokyo, and in 1992 won the prestigious European IDI Design Award for his design of 30 fashion shops around the world. While practicing architecture, his penchant for exotic travel and his affinity for eastern cultures often drew him to the Far East, where in 1996 he produced his first collection of hand-woven Tibetan rugs made in small ateliers in Nepal. Blending pure line and geometric form with real materials, Denis Colomb’s aesthetic is a perfect marriage of modernist and centuries old Asian and European techniques. In 2003 while working with local artisans in Nepal, Colomb began experimenting with Mongolian cashmere, the finest in the world, designing the first of his incredible hand loomed blankets Soon he discovered new workshops, all the while refining texture, color and technique for a group of exquisite scarves, shawls and wraps.