Founder & Designer

Paul Baldwin

Over a decade ago, Paul noticed a gap most interior designers stepped around: nobody treated window coverings as a design problem worth solving properly. He's spent every year since closing it — building Couvrant into a boutique practice trusted with the city's more particular rooms, with an aesthetic shaped as much by Saint-Tropez and Paris as by Washington.

He works alongside a small team of designers, artisans, and installers, and personally reviews every specification before it goes to the workroom. When he's not on a job site, he's usually wandering an architectural salvage yard or stealing ideas from old European hotels.

“I don't sell blinds. I edit rooms.”