COMEBACK FOR
GARDISETTE VOILES
Photo: Contact Copenhagen / Living Art / Stilling
THE GARDISETTE VOILES ARE BACK
The gardisette voiles were incredibly popular in Denmark from the 50s through the 60s and 70s, but disappeared with time as functional needs changed. In recent years, however, the voiles have made a comeback with the popular two-curtain hotel style. The voiles are also popular alone, for instance in bathrooms.
The gardisettes are sheer, light curtains which give you privacy while still allowing lots of sunlight to enter the room. They are also known as voiles.
The original gardisettes were white, fine-meshed drapes, which were initially woven with no pattern, but later came in pattern weaved versions.
The fabric covered the entire window, with ordinary curtains in front. Often the curtain rod was hidden behind a cornice.
AP 1570 / White
COMPANY NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH CURTAIN
Gardisette is actually the name of a German company whose brand name became synonymous with the product.
The company took out a patent on the woven-in weighting tape. With this tape you did not have to hem the thin fabric and the curtains hung nicely.
Today, Gardisette is owned by the JAB ANSTOETZ group which has launched a number of new products under the name Gardisette.
THE STILLING GARDISETTE SOLUTION
When gardisette voiles became popular in the 50’s, Stillings’s founder Preben Stilling was quick to switch from production of blinds to curtain tracks production.
The curtain profiles were 14 × 10 mm and sales were just like today: made to measure or in lengths of 4-6 m.
Since the 50’s, the range of curtain tracks has been greatly expanded. Stilling now offers curtain rails specially made for hotel curtains, with tracks for both voiles and blackout curtains.
Our range also includes very discrete curtain tracks which are perfect for carrying the sheer fabrics by themselves. Or next to a stronger track for the heavy curtains.
Stilling also has milled-in, “invisible rails”, and the beautiful cornices that, like the hotel style curtains, are also currently having a comeback.
In other words, Stilling has everything for a gardisette solution.
Living Art curtain design at hotel Villa Copenhagen. Photo: Living Art
BACK TO THE 60’S
In bathrooms, gardisette voiles are an obvious choice. The sheer fabric filters the light so that the windows come alive, as opposed to the effect of frosted window panes.
Stilling recently created a gardisette solution for the owners of a bathroom who wanted a return to exactly the type of curtain the architects had designed the window for in the 1960s.
WITH GARDISETTE VOILES YOU CAN…
1 / Protect people and furniture from bright sunlight and offer privacy at the same time. Especially when it comes to living room curtains, the voiles are an obvious choice. And the minimalist look with simple curtains in light, sheer materials is still in fashion.
2 / Create a hotel-like atmosphere in your private home by using different curtains in layers. The combination of a heavy, long curtain and a curtain in a sheer material creates a luxurious and stylish look. In addition to offering the obvious benefits of privacy, blocking out light and insulation.
3 / Create a space within the room. You can use the voiles as room dividers which are visually less heavy than partitions and are a far less permanent solution.
DID YOU KNOW?
Voiles were already popular in the late 1800s. Back then a new weaving method was invented, enabling the production of the fine laced curtains.
White lace curtains were used in the wealthier homes under heavy curtains, which kept out the cold in the winter. The heavy curtains were then taken down in the summer leaving only the voiles.
Sources: Bolius.dk and Ole Stilling-Petersen, former owner of STILA and Aluproff
