Maharam

Maharam is pleased to announce the opening of our first New York showroom for Edelman, Knoll Textiles, and Maharam. Located on the ground floor of an historic Gramercy Park tower, the space designed by our longtime architect Neil Logan reimagines the interior’s original features with modern understatement to invite engagement with textiles and leather. Visit us at 257 Park Avenue South. https://lnkd.in/eiRW26UV Photography by Mikael Olsson.

“An archive that charts both changing European tastes and the shifting profession of textile design.” Now on Maharam Stories, Jessica Hemmings delves into the “astonishing range” of the Backhausen Archive. https://lnkd.in/e3JpPCbY

"An impressive and often courageous career, which, until recently, risked being forgotten.” Now on Maharam Stories, Alice Rawsthorn highlights Bauhaus photographer Judit Kárász and her "haunting portrait" of textile designer Otti Berger. https://lnkd.in/ek2wEZHk Judit Kárász. Portrait of Otti Berger with the facade of the Bauhaus, double exposure, 1931. Courtesy of Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin. ©2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / HUNGART, Budapest.

This month, our design studio inaugurates a major collaboration with Dutch designer Edith van Berkel. A textile expert and long-term partner of JongeriusLab, van Berkel is known for translating artisanal processes to contemporary explorations of color, texture, and technique https://lnkd.in/ea-ZnsDH ⁠ Photography by Nick Ballón.

“It is not just the object that carries meaning, but the act of ritualizing it…that produces a sense of permanence.” Now on Maharam Stories, Matteo Guarnaccia explores the fusion of design and ritual. https://lnkd.in/eaDjujwz

"'Papaver somniferum' operates as an allegory...an emblem for all the forces that can ravage and pull one apart." Now on Maharam Stories, Grant Klarich Johnson analyzes a tapestry by Candice Lin featured in"You Stretched Diagonally Across It,"currently on view at Dallas Contemporary. https://lnkd.in/gaTckwjg "Papaver somniferum (Tapestry)," 2019. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly.

“Once Within a Time” at SITE Sante Fe, curated by Cecilia Alemani, includes the work of over seventy individuals with close ties to the Southwest. In support of the exhibition, Maharam Media worked in collaboration with SITE to create a series of delicate, digitally printed textiles in custom gradients that shape space through dynamic use of color, light, and form. On view through January 12, 2026. Read more via New York Times: https://lnkd.in/gHEuvXYy

Now on Maharam Stories, designer Aliki van der Kruijs shares the booklets of ephemera she collected on walks during a residency in New York winter: “It was an ongoing play of zooming in and zooming out, connecting visual lines and stories.” https://lnkd.in/gw8966EZ

“If I am ever born again . . . I would want to go to the Bauhaus again.” For Maharam Stories, Alice Rawsthorn writes on Michiko and Iwao Yamawaki’s time in Dessau, and and the “fusion of Western modernism and Japanese aesthetic traditions” they explored throughout their careers. https://lnkd.in/eXNm8Uh6 Iwao Yamawaki. Lunch (12–2 p.m.), 1931. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art. Licensed by SCALA. Art Resource, NY.

Now on Maharam Stories, Monica Nelson writes on the Index of American Design and the “18,000 watercolor renderings that depict furniture, ceramics, textiles” and other decorative arts from the country’s early history. https://lnkd.in/gknXE7t4 Images Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.