- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
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- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
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Century City High-Rise Pied-à-Terre
This project is a conceptual design study created to explore custom window treatment solutions, fabric applications, motorization systems, and architectural integration. Images are illustrative renderings and do not represent a completed installation.
Layered Motorized Sheer and Blackout, 270° Views — a design project in Century City, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
A 32nd-floor condominium with floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides. View was the asset; glare and overnight light were the problems. HOA prohibits any exterior or visible hardware.
Dual-layer motorized program: outboard solar-rated sheer for daytime, inboard three-pass blackout for night. Both on concealed ceiling track set into a soffit added during the buildout. Nothing visible from the exterior; nothing visible to the unit door when stacked.
Outboard: solar sheer with 3% openness, optimized for UV control on west exposure. Inboard: three-pass blackout in a warm bone, face-finished to read as a quiet linen when closed during the day.
Forest Group dual track in a 5-inch soffit. Somfy Sonesse 28 motors, hardwired during the buildout, integrated with the unit's Savant system.
Fullness on the sheer at 90% carrier spacing, on the blackout at 100%. Side returns sealed against the soffit returns with magnetic edge channels to eliminate the city-light leak at night. Stack-back engineered to land on the structural columns between glass panels — invisible when open.
The unit operates as a hotel suite — sheer daytime view preservation, complete overnight darkness, a single Savant scene for each. My recommendation for high-rise residential: coordinate drapery infrastructure during the buildout. Adding concealed track post-occupancy is impossible without ceiling reconstruction.
- High-rise
- 270° views
- Savant integration
- Solar sheer
- Light-seal blackout
The reasoning behind this work
The decisions behind this project — how the room was read, what the drapery was asked to do, and why each specification was chosen — follow the same written method the studio applies to every commission.
For the specification work behind this project, read Custom Motorized Drapery in Century City, Custom Blackout Drapery in Century City, and Custom Sheer Drapery in Century City. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Century City. Pricing for projects of this scope is set out in the 2026 Custom Drapery Pricing Guide.
The work on this project draws on the studio's reference library. For the fabric itself, see Linen, Sheers, and Blackout. For the architectural condition resolved here, read Drapery for Floor-to-Ceiling Glass.