Bespoke textile work for Geneva — at home on the international lake

Geneva is the city where our name is at home. La Couverta — derived from the Couvert, the place setting at the table and the envelope for the letter. Our fabric samples travel in Le Couvert, a hand-sewn linen folder, and when we work in Geneva it feels less like a journey abroad than like a return.

For houses in Cologny, Vandœuvres and on the Quai we make bespoke slipcovers, table linen with monogram and curtains for tall windows. Everything is made in Hamburg — measuring and the final fitting happen on Lake Geneva.

The city itself sets the tone: international, multilingual, discreet. Households move between languages, staff come from several countries, and the interior should be right in each of these worlds. Our answer is the quiet form: classic cuts, weaves with a known origin, details seen only at the second glance — a button placket worked by hand, a drawn-thread hem, a monogram that does not call out.

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Geneva households are rarely rooted in one place. Many of our clients live between cities — Geneva and London, Geneva and New York, Geneva and the Côte d’Azur. For such households the pattern archive is more than a convenience: measured once, sets for every further residence are made to the same measurements, in the same signature.

What distinguishes the houses by the lake is a quiet generosity: long tables, tall windows, furniture with provenance. Classic forms suit this — the floor-length slipcover with inverted pleat, the linen cloth with drawn-thread hem, the monogram in hand embroidery from St. Gallen.

The apartments in the city have their own rhythm too — in old Geneva, on the Rive Gauche: parquet, stucco, narrow staircases where a measuring done with experience goes faster than one done with devices. We bring everything we need and leave the apartment as we found it.

We work in German and French — the first conversation, the written coordination and the Textile Passport that accompanies every piece. The process stays the same as everywhere: measuring at the original, toile fitting with pins, production in the atelier, final fitting with steam and a personal handover.

In between there is no anonymity: you always speak with the same person. The page Process describes the full way; the weaves with origin and care are on the page Materials.

From Geneva the ways are short: to Zurich and Lake Zurich, into the Alps — and down the Autoroute du Soleil to the Mediterranean, to Nice and Monaco. Anyone who works with us in Geneva works with an atelier that travels these ways regularly.

And because Geneva is a city of organisations and receptions: for celebrations and official occasions too we make table linen and rows of chairs — from the private dîner to the table that is meant to represent a house. The patterns stay in the archive; for every further occasion the linen comes from the same hand — in the same quality, to the same measurements.