Not every room calls for a statement. But when one does, the materials have to be ready. Michelle Dirkse built her own collection because the existing market rarely offered patterns with the scale and atmospheric weight her projects demanded.
The collection began in 2017 as a collaboration with local artists whose work Michelle had been championing for years through gallery partnerships and client commissions. Rather than adapting existing textiles to fit her projects, she went to the source, commissioning original pieces and working directly with each artist to develop repeating patterns worthy of the walls, floors, and rooms they would inhabit.

The process is exacting. Each piece starts with an original work of art, which Michelle digitally scans and manipulates through cropping, scaling, and repeat testing until the pattern holds its own at full scale. A beautiful painting does not always make a strong pattern. Finding where it starts and stops, how it mirrors, how much of the original to use: that is the work. Hand-knotted rugs are produced in Nepal. Fabrics and wallpapers are printed on the East Coast. Every piece in the collection represents both the artist who made it and the studio that shaped it into something built for environments that demand presence.