- 20+ Years of Design Experience — Olga Rechdouni, ASID
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- Custom Design · Fabrication · Installation
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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 fabric; 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
Related from the Studio
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 Pinch Pleat Drapery in Hancock Park, Custom French Pleat Drapery in Hancock Park, and Custom Decorative Hardware in Hancock Park. For the broader practice in this neighborhood, see custom drapery in Hancock Park. 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 heading style at the top of the panel, study French Pleat, Pinch Pleat, and Grommet. For the fabric itself, see Silk, Wool, and Jacquard. For the architectural condition resolved here, read Drapery for Casement Windows.