Rubelli, a life in textiles

Rubelli, the Venetian family-run company now in its fifth generation, has been creating, producing and selling furnishing products, in particular fabrics, for residential and contract use since 1889.
With its brands – Rubelli Venezia, the newly introduced Rubelli Casa, Donghia, Dominique Kieffer by Rubelli and the Armani/Casa Exclusive Textiles by Rubelli licence - Rubelli as a company represents one of the most important names on the international interior design scene.

Rubelli is present in Venice, Milan, Rome, Paris, London, Brussels, Moscow, Dubai and in 12 US cities with its own showrooms and, via an extensive distribution network, in over 80 countries.
When creating collections the Rubelli style department finds vital sources of inspiration in the historical archive, which houses more than 7,000 textile documents, and also in the company library. Both are constantly enriched thanks to new and ongoing acquisitions.

For the production phase the Venice company uses its own weaving mill near Como with mainly state-of-the-art jacquard looms even if some eighteenth-century hand looms are still operating. A real research laboratory for developing and perfecting new and exclusive fabric types, the mill produces over half a million metres of fabric a year.

With the availability of an in-house design studio and its own production unit, Rubelli can design and produce, alongside its own collection, also custom fabrics based on special requests and patterns and types specified by the client. Technical and flame-retardant fabrics made with special yarns are produced alongside precious fabrics in natural and luxury fibres. This is the case of the textiles in Trevira Cs which Rubelli uses in the contract sector, more particularly in the most elegant hotel chains, luxury spas, yachts and cruise ships, and also in public spaces requiring the use of fireproof materials.

Rubelli fabrics decorate private homes, international hotels, world-famous theatres, embassies, palaces, castles and museums: lampas, damask and velvet fit out illustrious venues such as La Fenice theatre, The Doge’s Palace and Palazzo Reale in Venice, La Scala and Palazzo Reale in Milan, the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and the Albertina Museum in Vienna, just to mention a few.

With close ties to the world of culture and art, Rubelli has always supported museums and young designers, organised exhibitions and periodically promoted events in Italy and elsewhere in the name of a long textile tradition and a love for art which continues to be at the core of the Venetian group’s history.