Bespoke textile work for Vienna — period buildings, tall rooms, classic forms

Vienna builds upwards. Three and a half metres of ceiling height, casement windows, double doors — dimensions for which no off-the-shelf textiles exist. A curtain twenty centimetres too short turns a salon in Döbling into a makeshift.

We make bespoke curtains that follow the height of the room: measured at the window, run from the crown to the floor, with a fall that gives the fabric time. We work the same way for the furniture: covers for sofa and armchair drawn over the existing pieces without touching them.

Viennese apartments bring their own logic: narrow staircases, double doors that open into the room, tiled stoves that want to keep their place. We measure all of this in — a curtain ends where the stove begins, and a slipcover clears the way a door needs. Made to measure means here: the room sets the conditions, the fabric follows.

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Some details belong in Vienna because they come from this world. The inverted pleat gives the floor-length slipcover its movement and stands in the rooms it was invented for. The drawn-thread hem adorns runners and cloths of the table linen — drawn threads instead of print, work by hand instead of pattern.

To these come the quiet signs: the piping that retraces the edge of an armchair, and the monogram on napkin and bed linen, embroidered in St. Gallen. In Vienna this language needs no explaining — one only has to master it.

Historic furniture and listed rooms tolerate no experiments. Our answer is the loose cover: after measuring and toile fitting it is drawn over the furniture, reversible in every respect. Nothing is nailed, nothing glued — the Biedermeier armchair beneath remains what it is.

The same principle applies to the windows: curtain tracks and poles are set so that stucco and reveal remain untouched. The page Process describes how we proceed in detail; the weaves with origin and care are on the page Materials.

Part of this is patience in the detail: in period buildings no window is like another, and the reveals are rarely square. We take up every opening individually, make every panel individually and hang at the final fitting until the fall is right — at three metres of height that simply takes its time, and that time is planned in.

From Vienna we look after houses across the east of Austria — and many Viennese clients also work with us in Munich or on the Upper Bavarian lakes. Patterns and fabrics lie in the archive; the signature stays the same, from the period apartment in Grinzing to the country house on Tegernsee.

And because Vienna is a city of tables: bespoke table linen is also among our regular commissions — cloths for long tables in Biedermeier salons, runners and napkins, on request with the family monogram from the embroidery in St. Gallen — stitched by hand, with threads that match the weave.