Rubelli’s New Textile Collection Examines Changing Light

How does light change throughout the day, defining space and color? That’s the question posed by Luce. The textile collection employs different structures, weaves, and fibers to manipulate the reflection of light, dispersing or compressing it to create sheen and depth. Among the offerings—many of them suited to upholstery—is Ripple, an acrylic-blend satin whose highly dimensional wavy surface evokes wet sand at low tide. Overlapping curved lines that glint like the sun on water distinguish Sunrise, a crinkled Trevira CS damask. Spotlight, based on an oil pastel of geometric shapes on textured paper, is rendered in polyester-polyamide—as is jacquard chenille Cloudy, which sports a busy, puffy relief. Rounding out the mix are Zeus, a piece-dyed textured fabric woven with technical yarns; Charles, a cotton-blend moiré; and Aurora, a solid-color silk sateen. Step to it! rubelli.com/en