Hancock Park Tudor Formal Living Room
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.
Pinch Pleat Drapery in Wool-Silk Damask — a design project in Hancock Park, CA. The studio's specification practice in design intent, fabric, hardware, fullness, and installation, written from Olga's perspective.
A 1924 Tudor formal living room with original leaded-glass casements, walnut paneling, and a homeowner restoring the home to period-correct condition. The previous owners had installed grommet polyester; the architecture deserved silk.
Three-finger pinch pleat in a wool-silk damask, ceiling-mounted on hand-forged iron rods just below the carved ceiling beam. The brief was period correctness — the drapery the original architect would have specified.
Wool-silk damask in a deep parchment ground with a quiet tonal pattern, woven in Como, interlined and lined. Damask specifically because Tudor formal rooms historically carried figured cloth; a flat weave would have read as too modern.
Hand-forged iron rods, blacksmith-made finials echoing the existing fireplace andirons. Cast-iron rings, hand-drawn.
Fullness at 3x — appropriate to the damask's pattern repeat and the formality of the room. Steam-trained at the workroom, dressed on site, hem weights set for plumb fall against original wood baseboard.
The room reads as the architect intended it in 1924 — quietly grand, materially honest, and intentional in every element. My recommendation for historic restoration: research the period before you specify the heading. Most historic homes are mis-draped in modern conventions.
- Tudor
- Wool-silk damask
- Hand-forged iron
- Historic restoration
- Period correctness