Création Baumann belongs to that small group of European textile firms whose existence under today's conditions – a high-wage location, a strong Swiss franc, global competition from low-wage producers – is statistically not really anticipated: founded on 1 October 1886 in the Bernese town of Langenthal by Friedrich Baumann and Albert Brand as the linen weaver Brand & Baumann, brought together worldwide under the Création Baumann brand name in 1970, led since 2000 in its fourth generation by Philippe Baumann, and still exclusively family-owned, the house employs around 260 people, maintains nine subsidiaries and is present through agencies and distributors in roughly 40 countries – with showrooms in, among other cities, New York, Paris, London and Tokyo.

The unusual profile rests on vertically integrated value creation: design studio, research and development, weaving, dyeing, finishing as well as marketing and sales all take place without exception in Langenthal – a model that has become the exception in the industry and at the same time allows Création Baumann to manufacture small runs, for example individual digital prints from five running metres upward, just as comfortably as large commissions for the British Museum in London, the Paul Klee Centre in Bern, the Stapferhaus Lenzburg or the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo. In the technologically demanding segment – sound-absorbing fabrics, glare and heat protection, blackout, acoustic separation curtains – Création Baumann ranks among the leading addresses internationally; the Swiss-developed classics Lord (approximately 70 percent sound absorption) and Kent stand as exemplars.

The most recent collection movements consistently extend this line in the direction of sustainability and multifunctional spatial textiles: NATURE & POEMS places nature-near structures and muted colours at the centre, HOMMAGE stages a bridge between past and future, the Akustikpaneele Recycled are made from residual textiles, and a dedicated healthcare line built around the separation curtain fabric ZONA serves clinical and care environments. In November 2025 the house additionally launches, together with the Langenthal-based brand lavie (Balsiger Textil AG), a second ready-made curtain edition drawn from residual stock – Linaria, Linaria Color Block and Gingerino, manufactured in Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. What elsewhere is often lost between design ambition and lead time becomes, in Langenthal, a continuous narrative: the same square metre, patterned, acoustically effective, capable of going dark, and ultimately a curtain made from remnants.