As a designer, Madeline Weinrib has shaped a style that is at once timeless and contemporary. Inspired by the challenge of translating painterly ideals to warp and weft, she sensed an opportunity to carve out a new niche and to modernize what was at the time a traditional idiom.
The MET Store X Madeline Weinrib X The Heirloom Project
The MET Store X Madeline Weinrib X The Heirloom Project Pop-Up at The Parrish Art Museum
“For nearly 30 years, Madeline has collaborated with artisans from around the world and helped these small businesses to connect with new customers and opportunities. This new collaboration provides a major platform for makers from around the globe to share their creativity, culture and craftsmanship with the NGV community.” - Tony Ellwood AM, Director, National Gallery of Victoria, May 2024
Embracing authenticity as one of her hallmark values, Madeline’s aesthetic is defined by her individual approach to pattern, palette and scale and the use of techniques that favor hand over machine and tradition over automation. Madeline closed her textiles business in 2018 leaving a significant body of iconic work. She continued her rug design with a collaboration with Cristina Grajales Gallery in 2019 and was delighted to present new rugs with Emma Scully Gallery at the inaugural New York edition of the Collectible Design Fair in the fall of 2024.
Weinrib has served as the Creative Director of the Heirloom Project, working with the Metropolitan Museum of Art store and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s pop-up shop. The Heirloom Project celebrates the 10th anniversary of The Met’s reimagined Islamic Wing which seeks engagement with global artisans who pursue historic techniques and design principles. She has collaborated with such institutions as the Art Production Fund, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Neue Galerie, IFPA Print Fair, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (NGV), the Parrish Art Museum and BOMB Magazine.
“Weinrib’s father, Jerome, who was the owner of ABC Carpet & Home, didn’t yet recognize that his daughter was anticipating a new style in interior design. Sure enough, it was not long before the design cognoscenti caught on, and high profile decorators began placing “Madeline Weinribs” in their clients’ Park Avenue classic sixes. She made dhurries popular again, but most importantly she reinterpreted centuries-old vernacular into something new and fresh.” -Mieke Ten Have, Cultured Mag, May 25, 2017