Rug in New Zealand wool
The Long Take
2026
The movie ends, and as I leave the cinema, I turn right towards my home. It is a street Iʼve walked down a thousand times in Shanghai, but different every time. Changing endlessly, a view that never repeats, an infinite repeat of crossings, there is no border in sight: one minute, I’m under the dappled shadows of trees, the next, I collide with the neon glow of a street after the rain.
The Long Take began with a single observation: the way the uneven tiles of a street surprise us in unexpected ways. We often think of a border as a line that separates, but on the street, the border is actually a meeting place. It is where the hard stone of the sidewalk meets the soft rhythm of life.
If these streets are those, we have taken a million times and yet each moment is unique, what happens if we weave all those individual moments together? The act of wandering requires no logic and knows no end. What we call a “border” is in fact a threshold that becomes a rhythmic beat beneath our stride.
Fragmented, chaotic moments are woven into a single line becoming a display of a vivid and full life.
Rugs, with a memory of two.
Every rug begins as a small thought - a colour remembered, a pattern half-seen, or a feeling carried from somewhere familiar.
Based in Shanghai, The Happy Few is not just a collection of rugs, but an extension of our belief in the power of noticing.
We translate environmental storytelling into a tactile medium, turning fleeting city rhythms into woven landscapes. Woven slowly by hand, these memories take shape through thread, becoming something to live with, not just to look at. In this exploration of craft and collaboration, we materialize the moments that we choose to carry. Some stories fade, others stay beneath our feet—held quietly, like a memory or two.