The Fabric of Memory
Antique textiles sourced, restored, and curated by Muta Lux · presented by VV Interior Home
Antique textiles · Muta Lux · Photography · Lisa Kaczmarek
Muta Lux · Antique Textiles · Switzerland
The same eye that selects a travertine table from the 1970s, or a ceramic fired by a Japanese master, is the eye that recognised Muta Lux.
Because the question is always the same: what did someone put into this, and does it still hold?
Muta Lux works with antique textiles sourced from France, Spain, and Italy — organza, linen, lace, silk — between sixty and one hundred years of age. They are not purchased in lots. They are found, one by one, through a clinical search that prioritises material integrity over quantity, and possibility over perfection. Many arrive with damage. All arrive with character. In the atelier, each fabric is assessed with the rigour of a restorer: what can be recovered, what must be respected, and how the piece can be worked to its highest expression — without waste, without force.
The result is not a garment made from antique fabric. It is an antique fabric that has found its final, most precise form.
This distinction is fundamental — and it is the same distinction that guides every selection at VV Interior Home. A linen curtain from 1920, a hand-embroidered cuff from the south of France, a silk organza with the particular translucency that modern production cannot replicate — these are objects in the truest sense. They belong in rooms that understand what they are. Alongside stone that has held weight for centuries. Beside ceramics that carry the trace of a hand. On a sofa reupholstered in one-hundred-year-old linen.
Textile, in this context, is not decoration. It is material with memory — selected, restored, and placed with the same intentionality as any work of art.
This is what Valeria Viollaz looks for across every discipline she curates: the proof that something real was made here, by someone who knew what they were doing, and cared enough to do it correctly.
A piece by Muta Lux does not belong in a wardrobe. It belongs in a room that knows the difference between ownership and possession — between having something, and understanding what it is. It is, in every sense, a collectible.
A curated selection of antique textiles by Muta Lux · presented by VV Interior Home · Lucerne, Switzerland
Antique textiles · Muta Lux · Photography · Lisa Kaczmarek
Curation · VV Interior Home by Valeria Viollaz
Jewellery · Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen, available at Seiler Juwelier, Basel · Antique textiles · Muta Lux · Photography · Rabea Hüppi
PROJECT CREDITS
Antique Textiles · Muta Lux
Jewellery · Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen, available at Seiler Juwelier, Basel
Photography · Rabea Hüppi · Lisa Kaczmarek
Curation · VV Interior Home by Valeria Viollaz
Coordination · Viollaz Group
As featured in The Life Magazines, April 2026 · ELLE Decoration UK, May 2026 · Annabelle, May 2026