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Modern Window Treatment Ideas

Roller shades are a great option for sleeker spaces, tucking away into window frames or shade pockets for a seamless look. Customize your fabrics to get the right color and transparency for your space. If you’re feeling particularly luxurious, you can also look into automated shades (photo credit: J Geiger) so you’ll never need to get up to adjust your window treatments again.

Discover Design at the A&D Building

In 2018, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) relocated its New York office from Manhattan to Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. Located at 45 Main Street, BIG’s 50,000-square-foot office occupies the entire ninth floor of a 12-story building built in 1912. The renovated space is exceptionally modern—an open concept that maximizes daylight with glass-walled conference rooms and unobstructed windows. By eliminating walls and installing motorized solar shades, the BIG team can take full advantage of their Brooklyn Bridge view without sacrificing building performance.

Minimal Impact: J Geiger’s Inception Shades Deliver Sleek Design

As transparent canvases, windows have adaptable personalities: They keep a low profile or demand a lot of attention. When it comes to the former approach, it’s safe to say that shade maker J Geiger—known for its spare, streamlined aesthetic—is the embodiment of elegant simplicity. “Minimalist principles apply to all our products, and this is especially true for the Inception line,” says James Geiger of his latest collection, which marries contemporary design, smart functionality, and quick installation.

Winery Design with Hayley Knapp Palmer

Aperture Cellars is a project by Jesse Katz, the son of famed photographer Andy Katz. Perhaps, then, it is not surprising that Katz wanted a tasting room with the look and feel of an art gallery. The space needed to be simple, yet edgy, with as much though put into form as function.

J Geiger Reinvents Luxury Shading

A longstanding addition to ultra high-end architectural residences, J Geiger has cemented its status as a leader in luxury home shading for nearly a decade. With window valances and unsightly fascia an all-too-common practice in home shading, a clear need existed for an aesthetically pleasing alternative, the impetuous for J Geiger’s founding. Almost ten years later, J Geiger has again innovated to tap an unmet need, launching Inception Shades to bridge the gap between design and budget.

Modern World Made in America

Whether you’re taking on a renovation or just tired of the same old walls, U.S.-made window systems, shades, and wallpaper will improve your view.

2019 Idea House

The 2019 Idea House in the coveted historic district of downtown New Canaan, CT featured the restoration of the facade of an 1880’s Greek Revival. In partnership with award-winning building firm KARP Associates, Inc., and the talented architects of CAH Architecture & Design LLC…

This Modern Villa Sports a Sleek Alternative to Traditional Window Coverings

“Our primary goal was to maximize sightlines,” says Mike Close, president of Spinnaker Development, who recently completed a modern villa in Corona Del Mar, California. The 8,000-square-foot residence features extensive glazing to take advantage of views spanning from Newport Bay to the Pacific Ocean.

Brookline Mid-Century Modern House Reveal

From their first walk-through of the small, boxy 1950s house in Brookline, Massachusetts, Dr. Sunil Ghelani and Dr. Neha Kwatra envisioned it transformed. Once filming wrapped on the renovated mid-century modern house—a subject of This Old House’s 40th-anniversary television season—and party guests filled the warmly lit and comfortably furnished rooms, the split-level, open interior, with its soaring ceilings, cool-gray floors, and expansive windows, didn’t disappoint. “It’s what we had imagined our dream house would be,” says Neha.

A Southern California Midcentury Gets a Serene, Japanese-Inspired Treatment

Perched on the coastline and surrounded by lush greenery, Kevin and Holly Johnson’s home in the Woods Cove neighborhood of Laguna Beach, California, was built in 1961 and designed by noted midcentury architect J. Herbert Brownell. The two-story residence sits on a half-acre, wooded parcel that was once part of a botanical garden and enjoys a stunning panoramic view of the ocean. Lovers of modernist architecture, the Johnsons reached out to Lucas Design Associates (LDA) and Graham Architecture to renovate their property…

These Motorized Window Shades are Revolutionizing the Market

When James Geiger was leafing through the pages of Dwell in 2012, he made one interesting and illuminating observation. None of the stunning images he saw of beautiful modern homes included window shades or blinds. Seemingly a functional necessity, window coverings were conspicuously absent in every image. Wondering why this might be the case, Geiger realized it was undoubtedly because modern, minimal shades simply didn’t exist in the marketplace. Banking on this guess, he took a chance on promoting his budding motorized shading company in the pages of Dwell…

Best in Show

J Geiger’s R Series Shading System wins Best in Show for product design at BDWest 2019.

Who to Know: James Geiger

South Carolina–based shading systems company J Geiger is known for its high-tech, minimalist window coverings that have no visible wires or screws. The product was hatched in 2011 when James Geiger sought out a clean, modern shading system—and couldn’t find one. GRAY’s Tamar Leveson spoke with Geiger, the company’s founder and president, about problem-solving, ideation, and finding inspiration in unlikely places.

J Geiger Gives Aspen a New View of the Mountains

“Aspen is amazingly beautiful,” says James Geiger, the 38-year-old founder of Charleston-based shading company J Geiger, whose introduction three years ago of an unhidden automated shading system shook up the worlds of architecture and interior design. “The goal [architecturally] is to preserve natural beauty from the outside while simultaneously displaying it on the inside. We are in essence preserving the quality of the view.”

what other people are saying

“J Geiger shades allow for a sleek alignment of materials which in turn allows them to be as much a part of the architecture as a pendant or a water fixture.”

— JOEL W., ARCHITECT | CHARLESTON, SC

“There are lots of things one can do wrong in designing a shade. J Geiger does everything right—simple, elegant, and precise. They complement any thoughtfully designed space.”

— JJAKE W., ARCHITECT WESTPORT, CT

“We chose J Geiger for our project because they were a perfect solution to a problem we encounter frequently: not being able to create ceiling pockets… The unique hardware allows the shade to be exposed, thus eliminating the need for a pocket”

— ANDRA, INTERIOR DESIGNER | ANDRA BIRKERTS DESIGN

“Your shading system was perfection — it complemented everything.”

— ADELE, INTERIOR DESIGNER | VLY STUDIO

“I think this invention is brilliant… I nearly jumped out of my chair when I saw it in a magazine.”

— BRYAN W., DESIGNER | LOS ANGELES, CA

“Truly a work of art.”

— BRIAN K., ARCHITECT | BOSTON, MA

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