Creative Head
Michaela Schleypen is a passionate textile and interior designer focussing on flooring and exploring her own
unique language for all kinds of surfaces - mostly with a stunning three dimensional character. Michaela
turns carpets into fascinating objects, private interiors into areas of desire, yachts into swimming beaches,
and hotels into real homes.
Born in Germany in 1968, Michaela Schleypen started her career at the early age of 18, studied art, design
and marketing, lived in Hongkong and New York. All along, she never lost track of her dream: one day
being an internationally renowned carpet designer. Success literally came over night with her breathtaking
design ZEN, a hand-tufted and hand-carved carpet resembling a Japanese sand garden even including the
obligatory stone.
Exhibited all over the world, prize-winning ZEN was celebrated not only by international interior magazines
like Elle Decoration and Architectural Digest.
Describing herself, Michaela Schleypen claims "floorpassion" as an addiction, where her creative mind is
challenged every single step of the way. Today, she looks back on 15 years of experience as a carpet
designer. After more than ten years as head of creative development for an internationally acclaimed label,
Michaela established her own label "floor to heaven". Now she is able to create her own floor couture supervising every step of development, production and marketing.

Awards:
2005 AIT Architecture and Innovation 1.Place
2005 Categorie Best Floorcovering ELLE DECO Germany
2005 RED DOT
2006 Shortlisted Best Product Blueprint Award 100% Design London
2007 International Carpet Design Awards "Best Innovation"
2007 International Carpet Design Awards "Best Modern Design"
2007 International Carpet Design Awards Middle East "Best liked Product"
2007 ELLE DECO International Design Awards Best Newcomer Worldwide