Designer Blinds Tips by Jim Langdon

 Number 281 | May 4, 2007
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The Inside Story on 

Duette Architella

The Duette Architella® Collection is the biggest honeycomb innovation since Hunter Douglas invented the honeycomb shade. 

Its honeycomb within a honeycomb construction enhances the form and function of Duette's natural shape — colors are truer, pleats are crisper and energy efficiency is increased.

Get to know Duette Architella 
and you'll be a big fan, too!

 

Here are the Top Ten reasons to recommend Duette Architella to your customers:

1. Superior energy efficiency — three distinct air pockets provide increased insulation. Using improved technology the Duette Architella Collection delivers overall higher R-values, for energy efficiency. With insulation, every layer counts. Using our patented honeycomb construction we’ve introduced two more insulating air pockets within the Honeycomb. What makes this even better for consumers is now they can get this great benefit on our larger pleat sizes. They can choose the pleat size that best fits their window.

2. Richer color with semi-opaque fabrics — because of the way the Architella cell is constructed, less light filters through the room-side fabric.  This produces a richer color any time of day.

3. True color with Eclipse™ opaque fabrics — the opaque material is isolated to the inner honeycomb only, so it does not affect the room-side color

4. Fabric selection of outer honeycomb is either Panache™ fabric or new Elán 

Panache is one of the most popular specialty fabrics in the Duette collection. It has a soft hand and it’s appearance is more uniform than some of the other non woven fabrics. It has a nice color uniformity and deeper tones.

Elán is a fabric like nothing else in Duette. It is luxurious and refined and casts a subtle shine and woven like appearance. Architella Elán is available in 10 fashion forward, sellable colors.

5. Crisp pleats on each side of the fabric — the inner honeycomb features TruePleat™ design, which allows the outer honeycomb to remain a true honeycomb shape on both sides of the shade. This proprietary design is exclusive to Hunter Douglas.

6. Two pleat sizes — ¾" and 1¼", each available in two opacities, semi-opaque and opaque

7. Offered with All lift systems —including Standard Cordlock, UltraGlide® and TruRise® PowerRise®, SkyRise®, Simplicity™ and Vertiglide! (Note: 1¼" Architella shades are not currently available with the LiteRise system.)
8. Design Options - Available with Standard, Top-Down and Top-Down/Bottom-Up design options and in Specialty Shapes. 
9. Easy care and cleaning. Like most Duette Shades, Architella shades require very little maintenance.  Regular cleaning with a feather duster is usually all that is needed.  Stains may be spot cleaned and, for deeper cleaning many fabrics may be fully immersed.  See complete details in the Hunter Douglas Reference Guide.

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10. Backed by the industry's best, the Hunter Douglas Lifetime Limited Warranty


 

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