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.
- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
- ASID Professional Member
- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
- Luxury Homes Throughout Los Angeles
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Olga Rechdouni
Los Angeles–based Interior Designer, ASID, specializing in luxury custom drapery, bespoke window treatments, and custom window treatment design for luxury residences throughout Los Angeles County.
Olga Rechdouni, ASID, is a Los Angeles–based interior designer who specializes in luxury custom drapery and bespoke window treatments for residences throughout Los Angeles County. She begins with the architecture, the natural light, the proportions of the room, and the way the home is actually lived in — long before a fabric, a decorative hardware finish, or a motorization system is chosen. That order is what separates a room that feels finished from one that only looks decorated.
From concept development and design specifications to fabric selection, decorative hardware, motorization, fabrication, and professional installation, the studio manages every stage of the process to create window treatments that feel fully integrated with the architecture of each home.
Every project receives Olga's direct involvement—from the initial consultation through fabrication oversight, installation, and final dressing. FIDM-educated and raised inside a family of custom furniture makers, she brings both a technical background and an interior designer's eye to every room. For more than twenty years she has designed privately for residences across the Westside, from Hancock Park to Bel Air, Pacific Palisades to Hidden Hills.
Olga personally oversees the critical site measurements and final dressing of primary suites, great rooms, and other signature spaces to ensure every installation reflects the original design intent.
The studio sources most textiles through trusted U.S. vendor partners, with select European sourcing added when the specification calls for it. Olga returns annually to Maison & Objet Paris and Salone del Mobile Milano, with showroom and mill visits throughout France, Italy, and Spain. The studio's hospitality perspective is informed by ongoing study of internationally recognized hospitality brands, including Aman, Bulgari Hotels, and Rosewood, with particular attention to their material palettes, craftsmanship, detailing, and guest experience.
Whether designing for private residences, hospitality, private clubs, or yacht interiors, every project begins with the belief that drapery should be integrated into the architecture of the room rather than added as decoration afterward.
20+
Years Experience
500+
Projects Completed
ASID
Member
14 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 selected. The most common reason a finished drapery program looks wrong is that someone started with the textile.
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 (14+ years)
- Atelier
- The Drapery Atelier — founder, custom drapery & fabrication studio
- Study
- Maison & Objet Paris · Salone del Mobile Milano · 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 design 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
Interior design, practiced through the lens of drapery
Los Angeles–based Interior Designer, ASID, specializing in luxury custom drapery, bespoke window treatments, and custom window treatment design for luxury residences throughout Los Angeles County
Olga Rechdouni, ASID, is an interior designer whose work is deeply rooted in custom window treatments. Her process begins with understanding the architecture, natural light, room proportions, and the way each home is meant to be lived in before fabrics, decorative hardware, or motorization systems are specified. That discipline is what separates a finished program from a room that looks decorated but never resolved.
Drawing on more than two decades of Olga's practice in interior design and custom window treatments, the studio works across Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Holmby Hills, Santa Monica, Hancock Park, Calabasas, and Hidden Hills. Every project receives Olga's direct involvement—from the initial consultation through fabrication oversight, installation, and final dressing.
Olga personally oversees the critical site measurements and final dressing of primary suites, great rooms, and other signature spaces to ensure every installation reflects the original design intent.
FIDM-educated and an ASID Professional Member, Olga was raised inside a family of custom furniture makers. She continues that study annually at Maison & Objet Paris and Salone del Mobile Milano, with showroom and mill visits throughout France, Italy, and Spain. The studio's hospitality perspective is informed by ongoing study of internationally recognized hospitality brands, including Aman, Bulgari Hotels, and Rosewood, with particular attention to their material palettes, craftsmanship, detailing, and guest experience.
Whether designing for private residences, hospitality, private clubs, or yacht interiors, every project begins with the belief that drapery should be integrated into the architecture of the room rather than added as decoration afterward.
Custom drapery design
Custom drapery designed 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 personally oversees the critical site measurements and final dressing of primary suites, great rooms, and other signature spaces to ensure every installation reflects the original design intent.
Designer textiles
Active trade accounts with Fabricut and Scalamandré, alongside additional trade-only mills specified project by project through the designer of record. The studio maintains a working library of Belgian and Italian linens, figured decorative fabrics, 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 fabric, 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
Design-concept practice, not a record of completed yacht commissions. The studio brings familiarity with marine design considerations — IMO-related textile requirements, corrosion-resistant hardware families (316 stainless, marine-bronze), and vibration-isolated motor practice — into residential-quality drapery concepts for yacht and marine environments.
Client education
We explain fabrics, hardware, motorization, fullness, and mounting in plain language. Clients sign drawings they understand. There are no surprises at install.
For the studio's position on how a panel is actually built — hem depth, header construction, concealed weighting, and when the standard hem is the wrong answer for the textile — see Chapter V.1 — The Hem in the House of Drapery Design Standards.
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 fabric, 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.
Design concepts and technical knowledge, not a portfolio of completed yacht commissions. The work reflects familiarity with marine specifications — IMO-related textile requirements and marine-grade hardware families — brought into residential-quality drapery concepts for yacht interiors.
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 Milano, with showroom, mill, and vendor visits throughout France, Italy, and Spain each season.
- Most fabrics are sourced through trusted U.S. vendor partners and represented in the studio's working library. Select European sourcing is added when the specification calls for it.
- The studio's hospitality perspective is informed by ongoing study of internationally recognized hospitality brands, including Aman, Bulgari Hotels, and Rosewood, with particular attention to their material palettes, craftsmanship, detailing, and guest experience.
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?
- Most fabrics come through established U.S. vendor partners and are evaluated in the studio's working library. Belgian and Italian linens, figured decorative fabrics, and performance weaves are added through select European sourcing when the room requires it.
- Is Olga involved personally on every project?
- Yes. Olga writes the specification on every project, attends consultation and primary measurement personally, and oversees the final dressing of primary suites and great rooms. Every project receives her direct involvement from the initial consultation through fabrication oversight, installation, and final dressing.
- What sectors does Olga design for beyond residential?
- Hospitality (hotels, restaurants, private clubs), executive offices, and yacht and marine drapery design concepts. Commercial work is specified to NFPA 701 and California Title 19. Yacht and marine work is offered as design-concept practice — the studio applies familiarity with IMO-related textile requirements and marine-grade hardware families rather than presenting a portfolio of completed yacht commissions.
- What is the relationship between Duroque, The Drapery Atelier, and House of Drapery?
- Duroque is her West Hollywood studio and online gallery, now in its fourteen 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.
The Discipline
Design philosophy
Client JourneyOur design process
The StudioServices & specifications
Recent WorkProject case studies
Further reading from Olga: client letters and recent commissions collected in the studio's testimonials, field notes from travel and the European mills in the designer's journal, and the pleats, trims, and fabrics Olga keeps returning to in Olga's favorite styles. Residences are received across the studio's Los Angeles service areas; designers, architects, and builders work with the studio through the trade program, with the collaboration workflow detailed in custom drapery for interior designers.