Bespoke slipcovers and table linen for Zurich and the lake

Zurich likes to work quietly. The houses on the Gold Coast — in Küsnacht, Zollikon, Erlenbach — are rarely built for visitors, but for the people who live in them. Our way of working fits this: one point of contact, appointments kept to the minute, no photographs without permission, no names.

For Zurich houses we make bespoke slipcovers, table linen for long tables and cushions and upholstery for salons looking out over the lake. Everything is sewn in Hamburg — measuring, fitting and the final fitting happen at your place.

What we have learned in Zurich: appointments are commitments. The measuring is in the calendar, the toile fitting follows to the week, and the final fitting begins at the hour that was agreed. This reliability is not a gesture for us but a consequence of the way we work — because every commission is led by the same person, there are no handover losses and no surprises at the end.

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In Switzerland our word needs no explaining: the Couvert is the envelope — at the table the place setting, in the post the letter. Our fabric samples travel in such an envelope: Le Couvert, a hand-sewn linen booklet with a ribbon closure.

This is how every commission in Zurich begins: the Couvert is opened, the samples lie on your own table, in your own light. Decisions are made at the original — because Belgian linen looks different on Lake Zurich than under atelier lamps, and dark velvet only reveals its colour in the room it is meant for.

Anyone who builds and furnishes in Zurich expects appointments and measurements to be right. We meet this with the tools of bespoke tailoring: measuring at the original, a toile fitting with pins, a final fitting with steam — and a Textile Passport in which every piece is documented with fabric, origin, measurements and care.

This precision carries further: reorders run through the pattern archive without a new measuring appointment. And for houses looked after by interior architects, we work directly with the studio — via the page for designers. The page Process describes the full way from first conversation to final fitting on site.

Many Zurich houses have a second anchorage — in Geneva, in the mountains or in Ticino. Anyone who has worked with us once has the pattern in the archive; the set for the second house is made by the same hand. We are also regularly on the road in Vienna and Munich.

For houses by the lake a practical point is added: the light over the water. In Küsnacht and Zollikon the afternoons fall brightly into the rooms; there we recommend lightfast weaves and pale linens that hold their colour. And for the library or the study, where things are quieter, we carry heavier fabrics — dark velvet, dense wool — that hold the room without weighing it down. You will find all weaves with origin, binding and care on the page Materials — with the lightfastness values that count by the lake.