Field notes from Olga Rechdouni.
A working designer’s observations on the trade fairs, the European mills, the hotels worth studying, and the architecture and interiors quietly shaping how the best rooms in Los Angeles are now being specified.
Notes from Maison & Objet, Paris
What the European trade is showing this season — and what is quietly being walked away from.
European Textile Mills — The Houses I Trust
Why a small set of family-run mills in Belgium, Italy, and France quietly produce most of the cloth I specify.
Luxury Hotels — The Window Treatments I Study
What the best hotel rooms in the world quietly get right about drapery, and what residential design can learn from them.
Interior Design — Where the Work Is Moving
Observations from a year of specifying drapery alongside the designers and architects shaping Los Angeles residential interiors.
Upscale Window Treatment Design — The Principles I Specify By
Twelve years of specification, distilled to the rules that have not changed and the rules that have.
Architecture and Interiors — Reading the Room
How I walk a residence before specifying a single panel, and what the architecture is almost always telling the drapery to do.
Salone del Mobile, Milan — A Debrief
What Milan Design Week signaled for residential drapery in the season ahead — and the quiet pivots happening at the edges of the fair.
A Week with the Heritage Mills of Northern Italy
Notes from a working visit to the Como and Biella weavers — what they are warping, what they are sunsetting, and what is worth specifying right now.
Aman, Bulgari, Rosewood — A Comparative Room Study
Three flagship hotels, three approaches to the primary suite. Where each gets the drapery exactly right, and where each leaves work on the table.
Los Angeles Residential Architecture — The Current Cycle
A working designer's read on what the city's architects are building this year, and what the architecture is asking the drapery to do.