Architecture decides the heading
French pleat belongs in a Hancock Park Tudor. Ripple fold belongs on a Trousdale wall of glass. The room tells us which heading to use. The swatch wall at the showroom never does.
The Designer
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Olga Rechdouni, ASID
Interior Designer · ASID Professional Member
Interior Designer · Founder of Duroque · Founder, House of Drapery
House of Drapery is the drapery practice of Olga Rechdouni, ASID, founder of Duroque.
Olga has worked privately on Los Angeles homes for more than twenty years, alongside the architects and interior designers building the city’s most demanding residences. She trained at FIDM and grew up inside a family of custom furniture makers, on a workroom floor. She still runs every project the same way.
Duroque is her West Hollywood gallery and studio, now in its thirteenth year. It is the broader interiors, furniture, decorative arts, and window-treatment practice House of Drapery came out of. Her work is restrained, precise, and built around one conviction: drapery is part of the architecture, not an accessory to it.
An ASID Professional Member, Olga is in Paris and Milan each year for Maison & Objet, Salone, and mill visits in Belgium and northern Italy. She consults across Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Calabasas, Santa Monica, and Woodland Hills.
20+
Years Experience
500+
Projects Completed
ASID
Member
13 Yrs
Duroque Gallery
The Discipline
How Olga Specifies a Room
Fabric is the last conversation
We finalize pleat, fullness, mounting, hardware, and motorization in writing before any fabric is presented. The most common reason a finished drapery program looks wrong is that someone started with the cloth.
Drapery is foundational, not decorative
Specified carefully, drapery becomes part of the architecture for the life of the house. Specified casually, it dates the room within a year. The difference is usually discipline, not budget.
On site, on the sixteenth
Our installer measures every opening in person, to the sixteenth of an inch. We do not fabricate from numbers a client emailed us. That is how panels end up an inch short of the floor.
What Olga Looks At First
Five factors, evaluated before fabric
- 01
- Ceiling Height
- Ceiling height often determines where drapery should begin and how it should be proportioned.
- 02
- Room Function
- A nursery, office, kitchen, media room, and primary bedroom all require different solutions.
- 03
- Sun Exposure
- UV exposure impacts furniture, rugs, flooring, artwork, and fabrics.
- 04
- Privacy Requirements
- Some rooms prioritize views while others prioritize privacy.
- 05
- Function
- Privacy, light control, acoustic control, energy efficiency, motorization, design enhancement.
From the Project Archive
Two lessons from real rooms
Malibu
The wrong sheer for the right view
A Malibu homeowner wanted to use the same sheer fabric they had seen in a neighboring home. After evaluating the project, Olga determined that the selected fabric was not the best solution for that specific oceanfront exposure. A higher-performance sheer was specified that preserved the ocean view while providing improved durability, solar protection, and long-term performance.
Lesson — A fabric that works beautifully in one home may be completely wrong in another.
Reseda
Mounting the architecture, not the window
A homeowner wanted to mount drapery only slightly above the window in order to reduce fabric costs. Olga recognized that the room had beautiful high ceilings and that the architecture deserved to be emphasized. Instead of mounting drapery directly above the window, the drapery was installed from ceiling to floor. The result was a room that felt dramatically taller, more elegant, and more luxurious.
Lesson — Good drapery design enhances architecture rather than simply covering windows.
Credentials & Practice
Background
- Education
- FIDM, Los Angeles
- Membership
- ASID — American Society of Interior Designers
- Practice
- Duroque — design gallery, West Hollywood (13+ years)
- Atelier
- The Drapery Atelier — founder, custom drapery & fabrication studio
- Study
- Maison & Objet Paris · European textile mills, annually
- Heritage
- Raised inside a family of custom furniture manufacturers
- Practice areas
- Custom drapery · Window treatments · Fabrication · Installation · Designer textiles
- Sectors
- Luxury residential · Hospitality · Yacht & marine concepts
Professional Affiliations
ASID Professional Member
Olga Rechdouni is a Professional Member of the American Society of Interior Designers, the oldest and largest professional organization for interior designers in the United States. ASID Professional Members are credentialed designers held to a defined code of ethics and to ongoing education in the practice of interior design.
Areas of Expertise
A designer and a technical specialist
Olga works as both an interior designer and a technical window-treatment specialist. Her practice covers design intent, written specification, fabrication, installation, and how the drapery performs years after the install, across luxury residential, hospitality, and yacht interiors.
Custom drapery design
Specification-led drapery for residential interiors across Los Angeles. French pleat, ripple fold, goblet, inverted, tailored flat, and the layered sheer-and-blackout systems behind most contemporary primary suites.
Fabrication discipline
Hand-tacked headings, interlining as default, sewn weight chains, mitered corners, and finished returns. These are old workroom standards. They are also the reason our panels still hang correctly years after the install.
On-site installation
Olga measures and commissions every project personally. We do not sub-contract installers. She is on site for primary-suite and great-room dressing on every job, which is where a drapery program is either finished or not.
Designer textiles
Direct relationships with Belgian and Italian linen mills. Figured cloth through Holland & Sherry, Dedar, Rubelli, Schumacher, Zimmer + Rohde, Lee Jofa, GP & J Baker, and Scalamandré. Engineered performance sheers and inherently fire-retardant weaves for coastal and canyon work.
Motorization & smart-home integration
Lutron, Somfy, Crestron, Control4, and Savant. We get involved at electrical rough-in, not after drywall. We coordinate directly with the lighting designer and AV integrator so motors land in the right pocket on the right circuit.
Hospitality & private clubs
Acoustic drapery, IFR cloth, motorized layered systems, and the daily-use durability hotel, restaurant, and private-club work demands. Specified to NFPA 701 and California Title 19 as a matter of course.
Yacht & marine concepts
Residential design intent engineered for marine service. IMO MED-certified textiles, 316 stainless and marine-bronze hardware, vibration-isolated motors, and the salt-air and UV detailing yacht interiors actually need.
Client education
We explain fabrics, hardware, motorization, fullness, and mounting in plain language. Clients sign drawings they understand. There are no surprises at install.
Sectors ServedLuxury residential Hospitality Yacht & marine concepts Custom furniture & interiors
Residential, hospitality, yacht
Primary residences across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Holmby Hills, Hancock Park, the foothill estates, and Hidden Hills. Spanish Colonial restorations, mid-century remodels, and contemporary new builds. Each one needs a different vocabulary.
Hotel guest-room and suite programs, restaurant and private-dining acoustic drapery, and private-club member rooms. The architect's spec almost always calls out IFR cloth, motorization, and an acoustic target before we are in the room. Our job is to make that spec also look like hospitality, not a code submittal.
Yacht drapery concepts engineered for real marine service. IMO-certified textiles and marine-grade hardware are the floor. Residential design intent is what separates a yacht interior that feels like a home from one that feels like marine product catalog pages.
Through Duroque, full interior design with custom furniture, art curation, and architectural finish specification alongside the window treatments. This is the broader practice House of Drapery grew out of.
International Perspective
Paris, Milan, the European mills
- Annual study at Maison & Objet Paris and Salone del Mobile Milan, with mill visits in Belgium, northern Italy, and the United Kingdom each season.
- Working relationships with the European textile houses the studio specifies most. Selections are made on the mill floor, not from a binder.
- Active reference study of Aman, Bulgari, and Rosewood interiors. What works in those properties travels back into the studio's LA hospitality work.
Written by Olga
Educational guides authored by the studio
Every guide in the studio’s library is written by Olga from project experience. Plain-language explanations of fabric, fullness, mounting, motorization, commercial code, and the marine specifications behind the yacht work.
By Olga Rechdouni, ASID
Best Fabrics for California Homes
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDDrapery Fullness Explained
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDBlackout vs Room Darkening
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDMeasuring Windows for Custom Drapery
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDCeiling-Mounted Drapery Systems
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDCommercial Drapery Requirements
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDYacht Window Treatment Guide
By Olga Rechdouni, ASIDHow Much Does Custom Drapery Cost in Los Angeles
Working With the Studio
Frequently Asked
- Who does the studio work with?
- Homeowners, interior designers, architects, and builders working on residential and commercial projects across Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Hidden Hills, Hancock Park, Pasadena, and the foothill estates.
- Does the studio offer a trade program?
- Yes. The trade program is structured for interior designers, architects, and builders working with their own clients. The designer keeps the client relationship. We handle the drapery specification, fabrication, and installation.
- What does a typical project timeline look like?
- Six to twelve weeks from consultation to installation, depending on scope and fabric lead time. Estate-scale programs and projects pulling custom weaves from the European mills run longer. We will tell you up front.
- Where does the studio source fabric?
- Belgian and Italian linens through mill partners we visit each year. Figured cloth through Holland & Sherry, Dedar, Rubelli, Schumacher, Zimmer + Rohde, Lee Jofa, GP & J Baker, and Scalamandré. Performance and outdoor weaves through European coastal mills.
- Is Olga involved personally on every project?
- Yes. Olga writes the specification on every project, attends consultation and primary measurement personally, and is on site for primary-suite and great-room commissioning. The studio does not run a junior-designer model.
- What sectors does Olga design for beyond residential?
- Hospitality (hotels, restaurants, private clubs), executive offices, and yacht and marine drapery concepts. Commercial work is specified to NFPA 701 and California Title 19. Yacht work is specified to IMO MED regardless of vessel register.
- What is the relationship between Duroque, The Drapery Atelier, and House of Drapery?
- Duroque is the West Hollywood design gallery Olga founded thirteen years ago, covering interiors, furniture, and decorative arts. The Drapery Atelier is the fabrication studio behind the window-treatment work. House of Drapery is the public-facing brand the drapery practice serves Los Angeles clients under.