Shades

Product • By Fenstermann LLC • Child Safe Bottom-up Top-down shades for uPVC Tilt and Turn windows

Child Safe Bottom-up Top-down shades for uPVC Tilt and Turn windows

This product is specifically made to work as inside mount to sloped glass stops of uPVC windows and doors. More

Product • By Fenstermann LLC • Bottom-up Top-down shades for the North American market

Bottom-up Top-down shades for the North American market

Manual Shade that adheres to the new Canadian Law about Child Safety in Window Coverings. Great option for schools, kindergardens, hospitals or retirement homes where strangulation on blinds or shades can be an issue. More

Product • By STREETLIFE BV • Rough&Ready Linear Shades

Rough&Ready Linear Shades

Part of Streetlife’s Rough&Ready product range, Rough&Ready (R&R) Linear Shades offer a modular shade solution for public spaces. The R&R Linear Shades can be used to create straight and angular shade structures. The R&R wooden beams measure 7x15 cm - 2.8”x5.9”. The roof modules can be assembled with the beams running lengthwise or crosswise.The beams are fitted onto heavy gauge Streetlock™ combs that are fully integrated with the structure, satisfying both function and providing an attractive form. To reduce weight, R&R Shades are executed in sustainable Accoya (FSC Mix 70%). This sand yellowish wood species ages very evenly over time and has an exceptionally long lifespan, comparable to har... More

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Project • By Migliore + Servetto • Exhibitions

Shades for I-MESH

Ico Migliore has designed for I-MESH two special tapestries to be displayed as part of the “Tapestry Collection by Alberto Fiorenzi” at Alcova Milano during the Milan Design Week 2018.Shades. BW and Shades. BW+R have been conceived as systems that are able to construct a strong dialogue with the space for which they have been designed and the horizon in which they are located. Inspired by the concept of transparency, the tapestries designed for I-MESH are shaped by the light and the relationship it constructs with the surrounding scenary through the graphic language of textures.They are open, extremely permeable forms that are designed to be passed through and to interact with the void, where perception changes according to the al... More

Product • By Bandalux • BOX Roller shade

BOX Roller shade

Bandalux roller shades with box systems are made with highly resistant materials and components that guarantee their great durability. Moreover, their mechanisms and components ensure the perfect roll of the fabric, with a straight and firm drop.The new Box range by Bandalux offers different box designs and sizes that fit perfectly into the architecture of the building and enable you to cover surfaces of up to 30m2. They guarantee excellent sun protection, both indoors and outdoors, providing privacy or darkness, according to the users’ needs. More

Product • By Bandalux • VERTICAL blinds

VERTICAL blinds

180º sunlight management. Vertical shades afford a precise control of the light with two movements: Open or close, and position. With a single command, the slats are regulated in keeping with the orientation of the sun, for maximum visual and thermal comfort. The slats (measuring 89 mm and 127mm) are delivered with a perfect separation between them. When in the closed position, they offer a perfect equidistant overlapping, for total protection from the impact of the light and heat. These are very versatile systems that adapt well to large openings, high ceilings and irregular surfaces, such as slants, cornices, staircases and curved spaces. More

Product • By Friul Mosaic • Orchidea

Orchidea

Elegant and slight, Orchidea inspire this mosaic of the Impressions Collection. Amazing orchids with their yellow petals surrounded by intense green leaves, blossom on a dark brown captivating background which highlights even more the power and strength of the thousands shades of this mosaic. The glass enamel tesserae are shaped with mastery in order to combine soft colors giving the mosaic an aspect both sophisticated and transformed. Meant for bathrooms, Orchid can adorn any space with its precious elegance. Material: glassy enamel tesserae Size: cm 100 x 200. More

Project • By Hunter Douglas Architectural USA • Museums

Art Institute of Chicago

Serving both as a museum and a school, the Art Institute of Chicago preserves and interprets a renowned collection. Built on the rubble of the Chicago fires in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago now houses more than 5,000 years' worth of art. To enable further development, the museum undertook its biggest renovation ever, a 264,000-square-foot wing designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. Renzo Piano Building Workshop architects made light control a central part of the project, creating what New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ourrossof says gives the views a "soft, ghostlike quality" coming from the white screens at each window (which were custom-built by Hunter Douglas Contract Window Coverings). In additio... More

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