Renaras for Interior Designers

For Interior Designers

Renaras works with interior designers, architects, and curators on placements that begin with a room and end with a single object. The atelier transforms Japanese ceremonial silk — obis, kimono textiles, scrolls, fukusa — into wall tapestries, table runners, lumbar pillows, and figurative pieces. Each is sourced from verified Japanese estate collections and finished by hand in our atelier. Each is one of a kind.

Renaras does not supply trade catalogues. Every placement is a conversation between the atelier and the designer — calibrated to a specific room, a specific client, a specific brief.

  • Trade pricing — applied on a project basis to designers and design studios working at scale. Trade pricing is confirmed when a project is initiated; we do not publish standing trade discount percentages because every project's scope, timeline, and piece count varies.
  • Sample requests — for designers presenting silk specifications to clients, fabric and motif samples can be requested at the atelier. Sample requests are reviewed on a project basis; for active project briefs, we accommodate where feasible.
  • Reserved textiles — pieces can be held under reserve for up to 60 days during the design and client-approval phase. Reserves let the designer present without the risk of a piece being sold to another buyer mid-conversation.
  • Custom commissions — for projects where a specific silk, scale, motif, or palette is required, the atelier accepts commission work. Lead time typically 8 to 14 weeks depending on scope and the silk being sourced.
  • Lead times — in-stock pieces ship within 5 working days from Amsterdam. Commissions and curated multi-piece selections are quoted with project-specific timelines.
  • End-client confidentiality — the designer-client relationship is preserved. Renaras does not contact your end client directly without your express authorisation, and the passport accompanying each piece can be presented either to your studio or to the end client per your preference.
  • Private viewings — for active project briefs, designers are welcome at the Amsterdam atelier (IJsbaanpad 2) by appointment. We also accommodate travel for site consultations within the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany.

What we work with

The Renaras catalogue is the working palette. Designers most frequently specify across these categories:

  • Wall tapestries — Japanese ceremonial silk obi mounted on handmade hardwood bars, supplied complete with hanging hardware. The single most-specified Renaras category for residential interiors. Browse Wall Art.
  • Ceremonial kimono — original Uchikake, Furisode, and Hōmongi presented as textile art at gallery scale. For projects where a singular textile becomes the room's anchor. Browse Phoenix Reborn.
  • Lumbar pillows — silk lumbar pillows in two sizes with envelope closure construction. Specify singly, in pairs, or as a curated set across a sofa or banquette. Browse Pillow Covers.
  • Table runners and placemats — for dining environments where the textile becomes part of the table architecture. Browse Runners · Browse Placemats.
  • Japanese ningyō and washi sculpture — sourced figurative work for considered display. Vitrine corners, dressing rooms, the threshold between formal and private spaces. Browse Whispered Stories.
  • Bespoke commissions — when the project requires a piece that is not in the current catalogue, the atelier accepts commissions for residential projects.

The passport accompanies every piece

Every Renaras object — whether specified into a private residence or commissioned for a single room — arrives with its handmade passport from the atelier. The passport is a record of the silk's provenance, the transformation it received, and the date it was finished, signed at Amsterdam. For designers, the passport is the documentation that explains the silk to the client and stays with the piece through any future provenance enquiry. It can be presented at delivery, included in the project handover documentation, or held by the atelier on the client's behalf — per the designer's preference.

What residential projects look like

Designers come to Renaras with rooms that have been waiting for something specific. A principal bedroom in a Mayfair refurbishment whose wall reads as unfinished until the silk arrives. A reading corner in a Paris apartment that needed warmth without weight. The entrance hall of a Cotswold conversion whose owner had been collecting Japanese objects for thirty years and wanted the textile equivalent of what they already owned. The dining room of an Amsterdam canal house whose architect insisted on a single statement textile to anchor the otherwise restrained palette.

The pieces leave the atelier knowing they are entering a considered home. The designer brings the room. Renaras brings the silk. The conversation is calibrated to both.

Open the conversation

For trade pricing, sample requests, commissions, or to arrange a viewing at the Amsterdam atelier, write directly. We reply within two working days.

Email: contact@renaras.com
Subject line: Trade Enquiry — [studio name]

When you write, share what you can:

  • Studio or firm name
  • Your role (principal, senior designer, project architect, specifier)
  • Project type (private residence, residential development, designer-collector own home)
  • Project scope (a single piece, a curated multi-piece programme across one residence, a multi-project relationship)
  • Project timeline (immediate, three months, six months, longer)
  • What the room needs — dimensions, palette, the brief in your own words
  • Sample request (yes or no, and if yes, the specific motifs or silk types of interest)

The atelier reviews each enquiry directly. We do not maintain a trade portal or a designer login system — the relationship is supported by the atelier in person, by email and by appointment. This is intentional.

Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, designed and finished at the Amsterdam atelier. One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.

Also from the atelier

For hospitality teams, boutique hotels, restaurants, and gallery interiors, see Renaras for Spaces. For consumer gifting and the atelier's broader edit, see Gifts from the Renaras Atelier.