Custom drapery rods, finials, French return rods, ceiling-mounted tracks,recessed tracks, and motorized tracks — specified in solid brass, blackened steel, bronze, and custom-patinated metal. Hardware coordinated to the architecture and the rest of the room’s metal palette for residences in Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Brentwood, and West Hollywood.
Hardware is specified inside a longer design sequence — the studio publishes the full design process, from first conversation to final installation, for clients who want the sequence in writing before the consultation.
Solid brass, blackened steel, bronze, and custom-patinated metal rods with finials specified to the architecture — not the catalog page. The studio works with Holland & Sherry, The Bradley Collection, Paris Texas, and Kirsch, and fabricates custom hardware through the same workrooms used by AD100 designers.
The rod returns to the wall at a 90° bend so the panel closes against the architecture, not against open air. Specified for primary suites, dining rooms, and library windows where light leak and side draft are unacceptable.
Surface-mounted ceiling tracks for ripple fold, S-fold, and pinch pleat panels. Specified when the architecture has no header to mount a rod, when the panel must read as a vertical plane, or when the fabric must stack tighter than a traversing rod allows.
The track disappears into a pocket cut into the ceiling drywall — the panel reads as fabric falling from the architecture, with no visible hardware. Coordinated with the GC during framing; the studio supplies the pocket detail to the architect of record.
Lutron QS / RA3, Crestron, Savant, Control4, and Somfy. Hardwired DC motors are the default specification; battery Somfy motors for retrofits. The studio specifies the track, the motor, the keypad scene, and the head-end integrator at the same measure.
Specialty work: hand-forged rods, custom finial castings, oversized brackets for great-room spans, paired-pole assemblies, and architectural metalwork coordinated with the project’s metal finisher to match plumbing, lighting, and door hardware.
Hardware is specified to the architecture — the ceiling height, the window reveal, the metal palette of the rest of the room. The fabric comes second. Most hardware errors in Los Angeles are not about the rod; they are about the rod ignoring the room.
Solid brass in unlacquered, polished, satin, and antique; blackened steel; oil-rubbed bronze; gunmetal; custom patina. The studio coordinates drapery hardware finish with door hardware, plumbing fixtures, and decorative lighting before any rod is ordered.
A 14-foot great-room span and a 6-foot bedroom window are not the same hardware brief. The studio sizes rod diameter, bracket count, support placement, and motor torque against actual fabric weight at full fullness — not against a generic specification chart.
Motorized hardware is specified as one system — track, motor, power, keypad scene, head-end. The studio coordinates with Lutron, Crestron, Savant, Control4, and Somfy integrators directly so the panel arrives commissioned, not commissioned on installation day.
Most drapery problems in Los Angeles homes are hardware problems — the rod is too small for the span, the bracket sits proud of the wall, the finial is from a different century than the door hardware, the track has no pocket to disappear into. The fabric gets blamed; the hardware did the damage.
The studio specifies hardware first — at the architect-of-record stage when possible, before the rough-in is closed. Recessed pockets, ceiling tracks, French returns, and motorized integration all want to be coordinated before the drywall closes, not after the painter leaves.
Ceiling track curtains are the common request behind most of that early coordination in Los Angeles: a surface-mounted or recessed track carries the panel where there is no header to hold a rod, lets the fabric read as a vertical plane, and stacks tighter off the glass than a traversing rod allows. Which of the two we specify depends on ceiling construction, pocket depth, and whether the track is meant to be seen at all.
Specification references: the rooms that most reward early hardware coordination are bay windows and corner windows, where return brackets and recessed pockets are easier to plan than to retrofit. Built references include the Trousdale modernist glass pavilion and the Holmby Hills double-height foyer.
Decorative drapery hardware is the visible mechanical system that carries the panel — the rod, the rings, the finials, the brackets — specified to be seen rather than concealed. The studio specifies decorative hardware in solid brass, blackened steel, bronze, and custom-patinated metal, coordinated with the rest of the room’s metal palette.
A French return rod bends 90° at each end and returns to the wall, so the panel closes against the architecture instead of against open air. The studio specifies French returns for primary suites, dining rooms, and library windows where light leak and side draft are unacceptable — particularly behind motorized blackout layering.
Specify a ceiling track when the architecture has no header to mount a rod, when the panel must read as a vertical plane of fabric (typical of contemporary residences), or when ripple fold and S-fold headings make a traversing rod the wrong tool. Recessed ceiling tracks disappear into a drywall pocket entirely — the fabric reads as falling from the architecture with no visible hardware.
Yes. The studio specifies motorized tracks and motorized traverse rods on Lutron QS / RA3, Crestron, Savant, Control4, and Somfy. Hardwired DC motors are the default for new construction and major renovations; Somfy battery motors are specified for retrofits where wall-fishing is not feasible.
Yes. Custom rod fabrication, custom finial castings, oversized brackets for great-room spans, paired-pole assemblies, and architectural metalwork are coordinated with the project’s metal finisher to match the rest of the room’s hardware. The studio is to-the-trade and works with the same metal workrooms used by AD100 designers.
Hardware is an architectural choice — what the wall will hold, what the casing will tolerate, and what the room will read as. Those decisions are made on site, against the principles documented in our Standards.
Begin with a private consultation. We will follow with a tailored proposal, fabric direction, and an honest opinion on what your room is asking for.
