Urban Energy
The Cities Collection by Louis De Poortere is a celebration of urban energy, layered history, and architectural rhythm. Each rug is like a fragment of a living city—an abstracted map, a weathered façade, or the echo of footsteps on stone—translated into woven form. These rugs do not merely reflect cities; they capture their essence from above and within.
Inspired by metropolises such as Paris, New York, London and Tokyo, the collection is both a homage to place and a meditation on time. It explores how cities build upon themselves, how history accumulates in layers, and how the passage of time etches itself into stone, metal, and memory.
Layered History
A homage to a place and a meditation on time
as if one were flying over a city
Design as Aerial Cartography and Urban Palimpsest
The artistic language of the collection is unmistakably informed by the aerial view—as if one were flying over a city, observing its gridlines, rooftops, alleyways, and arteries. Each rug becomes a kind of textile cartography, abstracting the city into tone and texture.
The overlapping patterns and distressed surfaces evoke the feeling of a palimpsest—a surface where one story has been written over another, yet traces remain. The result is a visual rhythm that mimics urban life: structured, chaotic, lived-in, and ever-evolving.
Textile cartography
A visual rhythm that mimics urban life
Structured, chaotic, lived-in, and ever-evolving
In Essence
The Cities Collection transforms the urban landscape into a form of woven memory—where architecture becomes abstraction, and geography becomes emotion. It invites us to see the city not just from the street level, but as a whole: a tapestry of lives, shapes, and histories, best appreciated from above, yet deeply grounded in place.
