Belgian linen, European linen, and performance linen drapery specified for modern luxury interiors — casual in hand, architectural in specification. Natural-fiber panels and layered linen systems for primary suites, living rooms, and ocean-view residences in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, and West Hollywood.
The studio’s most-specified linen. A long-fiber flax cloth woven in West Flanders — soft hand, irregular slub, and a drape that improves over the first year of light. Specified for primary suites, living rooms, and dining rooms where the cloth is meant to read as cloth.
French, Italian, and Irish linens specified for projects that want a tighter weave, a heavier hand, or a more architectural drape than a soft Belgian. The studio carries linens from Libeco, de Le Cuona, Rose Tarlow, and Holland & Sherry among others.
Linen-look performance cloths for west-facing UV exposure, ocean-side salt air, and projects with children, pets, or rental tenants. The hand is engineered to read as natural linen; the cloth is engineered to survive Pacific Palisades sun.
Open-weave linen sheers and linen-silk voiles specified for ocean-view living rooms and modern primary suites. Hung in ripple fold on a recessed ceiling track, the cloth filters western light without flattening the view.
Linen is the studio’s default cloth for the contemporary California vernacular — the cloth most often specified by AD100 designers and the cloth most likely to outlast a renovation cycle. Casual in hand, architectural in specification.
Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Laguna projects: linen reads as the cloth of the coast, but it is the specification — interlining, ripple fold, motorized layering — that turns it into drapery rather than into a cottage curtain.
A linen sheer at the window for daylight and privacy, an interlined linen blackout panel behind for sleep, both on synchronized motorized tracks. The studio’s canonical primary-suite specification in linen.
For clients building healthy-home interiors the studio specifies linen with natural-fiber interlining, untreated cottons, and water-based finishes — no fire-retardant chemistry except where commercial code requires it.
Linen is the cloth most-specified by the AD100 in California, and it is the cloth that holds up best across the studio’s ten-year reference installations — not because it is precious, but because it is honest. The slub, the hand, the way it folds: nothing else reads that way.
The discipline is in the specification. Interlining for west-facing UV. Performance linen where children and pets live. A natural-fiber liner behind a Belgian face cloth. The cloth is the easy part; the specification is what separates a House of Drapery linen panel from a hotel-vendor curtain.
Belgian linen is woven from long-fiber flax grown in the West Flanders corridor, the historical center of European linen production. The cloth has a soft hand, a characteristic slub, and a drape that improves with light over the first year. The studio specifies it for primary suites, living rooms, and dining rooms where the cloth is meant to read as cloth, not as a finish.
Pure linen fades in west-facing UV the same way every natural fiber does. For west-facing Malibu, Pacific Palisades, and Santa Monica exposures the studio either interlines the linen with a UV-blocking liner or specifies a performance linen — a linen-look cloth engineered for solar exposure that retains the hand of the natural fiber.
In the studio they are the same product. Linen drapery refers to the engineered system — heading, track, interlining, return, length — while linen curtains describes the residential intent. Both are custom panels in Belgian, European, or performance linen; the discipline is in the specification, not the noun.
Yes. Linen behaves beautifully on motorized tracks — the cloth has enough body to stack cleanly in ripple fold and enough hand to read as residential rather than mechanical. The studio specifies Lutron QS / RA3, Crestron, Savant, Control4, and Somfy for linen systems, hardwired DC as the default.
Belgian linens from Libeco and Rogers & Goffigon, French linens from Pierre Frey and de Le Cuona, Italian linens from Rubelli and Dedar, performance linens from Perennials and Sunbrella Contract, among many others. The studio is to-the-trade and can source from any North American distributor.
Begin with a private consultation. We will follow with a tailored proposal, fabric direction, and an honest opinion on what your room is asking for.
