Soften reflective meeting surfaces
Treat selected glazing or walls where room reflections affect conversation and microphone pickup.
Offices & meeting rooms / APPLICATION GUIDE
Give conversations a better setting.
Glazed meeting rooms and flexible workspaces often need softer surfaces and control over daylight. Curtains can add targeted absorption, create visual separation and improve camera backgrounds for meetings.
LAYOUT STUDY / 10PLAN VIEW · NOT TO SCALE
Illustrative placement study. Curtain coverage, cavity and access are designed for your actual room.
THE ROOM & THE REQUIREMENT
Meeting reflections & visual separation.
A curtain across an open-plan area can screen the view while leaving many paths for sound to travel. Meeting-room treatment should distinguish room reflections from confidential speech privacy and noise transmission.
Manage screen glare
Use an appropriate light-control fabric at windows near displays and video-call positions.
Create visual boundaries
Retractable drapes can define a meeting or focus area while retaining a flexible layout.
PLACEMENT & SPECIFICATION
Make the detail
fit the room.
Plan curtain runs around the room’s reflective perimeter and keep glazing stack zones, doors and ventilation coordinated.
Performance boundaryAn ordinary absorptive curtain is not a confidential meeting-room partition. Sound can pass through the cloth and around its edges.
Review the test evidence ↗What to establish
- Privacy requirement
- State whether the requirement is visual screening, lower reverberation or confidential speech separation.
- Meeting technology
- Check microphone, camera and display positions before placing curtains.
- Workplace use
- Consider cleaning, daily operation and how the open curtain affects circulation.
Confirm the selected material’s certificates, care requirements and the final track and fixing design for your installation.
FABRIC STARTING POINTS
Build your shortlist.
Compare these ranges against the room brief. A suggested range is not a verified performance prediction for your room or selected lining.
Coloured Wool SergeAn acoustic starting point with colour choices for workplace interiors.
Acoustic MoltonFor targeted absorption where its appearance and care requirements suit the brief.
MercuryA dimout option for glare reduction; do not specify it as complete blackout.
acousticJ&C JOEL · WS018
Coloured Wool Serge
Coloured wool serge for acoustic perimeter curtains and production drapes.
500 g/m²150 cm wideIFR
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acousticJ&C JOEL · MOL030
Acoustic Molton
Molton, also called Calmuc, combining visual masking with sound absorption.
500 g/m²300 cm wideNDFR
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DimoutJ&C JOEL · MER061
Mercury
Soft dimout fabric suitable as a curtain face or lining, with manufacturer-stated 99.76% light exclusion.
255 g/m²150 cm wideIFR
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Bring the room
into the conversation.
Floor plans, meeting and video-call positions, window orientation, desired visual privacy and any confidentiality requirement.
Discuss your project ↗Can a curtain make an open meeting area private?
It can provide visual privacy. Acoustic confidentiality needs a designed separating construction and verification of all sound paths; it should not be promised from an absorption result.
Evidence & further reading
Published fabric tests & mounting conditions ↗Calculation methods & assumptions ↗Manufacturer data packs & certificates ↗J&C Joel: acoustic drapery principles ↗Application guidance by Studio Curtains. Product properties and test results are sourced separately on each fabric page.
KEEP EXPLORING
Related environments.
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Studios & production
Recording studios
A recording space needs a deliberate balance of absorption and liveliness. Retractable acoustic curtains let you change the exposed surface area around a performance or microphone position.
Reflections & variable acousticsView guide →
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Studios & production
Podcast & broadcast rooms
Podcast and broadcast rooms often combine hard desks, glazing, cameras and several microphones. Acoustic curtains can form a flexible absorptive backdrop around the conversation area.
Speech reflections & camera backgroundsView guide →
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Studios & production
Film & TV studios
Film and television spaces need repeatable lighting, clear working routes and backgrounds that suit the shot. Drapery can provide window light control, perimeter masking and selected acoustic treatment.
Light spill & set maskingView guide →