Crestron Designer Collection Fabrics
178 colourways in 20 designs, every one PVC free: the sheers, light-filtering weaves and blackouts of Crestron's decorative book, across all four tiers.
The decorative book: sheer, light-filtering and blackout, without vinyl
The Designer Collection is Crestron's decorative book, and it holds every roller fabric in the programme that is not a basketweave screen. It carries three kinds of cloth. The sheers are all Coulisse, from Perla and Nohea at 3% openness through Wende, Rachel and Sena to Harika's sheer at 15%. The light-filtering weaves, at 1% openness or under, are Coulisse's Bella, Mika, Nava, Merinda, Ella and Desiré, Phifer's SheerWeave 7450 and Mermet's Vizela. The blackouts are Coulisse's Cosima and Dilanna with the night halves of Bella, Mika, Nava, Merinda and Harika, Phifer's SheerWeave 7500, 7001 and 7400, and Mermet's Flocke. That makes 178 colourways in 20 designs, and Crestron's Fabric Information Guide lists every one of them as PVC free.
A Heritage screen is picked from the exposure; a Designer fabric is picked from what the room has to do after dark and from the colour of the scheme. Most of its colourways have a twin under the same name, a light-filtering or sheer weave with its blackout, so a colour settled once holds from the day layer to the night layer; even the sheers Rachel and Wende share one set of names. It suits bedrooms, bathrooms, media rooms, rooms that face a neighbour, the night layer behind a Heritage screen and any project that wants no vinyl at the window, and it spans all four of Crestron's tiers, from Tier 1, where most of the light-filtering weaves sit, to Tier 4, which holds Flocke alone.
20 Crestron Designer Collection designs, 178 colourways
Harika
Blackout / Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Perla
Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Sena
Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Rachel
Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Wende
Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Nohea
Sheer, woven by Coulisse
Bella
Blackout / Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
Mika
Blackout / Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
Nava
Blackout / Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
Merinda
Blackout / Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
Ella
Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
SheerWeave 7450
Light Filtering, woven by Phifer
Vizela
Light Filtering, woven by Mermet
Desiré
Light Filtering, woven by Coulisse
SheerWeave 7500
Blackout, woven by Phifer
SheerWeave 7001
Blackout, woven by Phifer
SheerWeave 7400
Blackout, woven by Phifer
Cosima
Blackout, woven by Coulisse
Dilanna
Blackout, woven by Coulisse
Flocke
Blackout, woven by Mermet
What the book shares, and where its fabrics part ways
No vinyl in any of it
Coulisse weaves every cloth it supplies here in 100% polyester. Phifer's SheerWeave 7001 is polyester too, 7450 and 7500 are polyester with an acrylic coating and 7400 has an acrylic foamed backing; Mermet's Vizela is EVA-coated fiberglass, and Flocke is fiberglass and acrylic with a cotton flocked back.
All four tiers
Tier 1 holds Mika in both versions, Ella, Desiré and the light-filtering Bella and Nava. Tier 2 has Perla, Sena, Cosima, Dilanna, SheerWeave 7450, 7500 and 7400, the light-filtering Merinda and the Bella and Nava blackouts. Rachel, Wende, Nohea, Harika, Vizela, SheerWeave 7001 and the Merinda blackout are Tier 3; Flocke alone is Tier 4.
The hembar
The Designer Half-Wrap and the other three Crestron hembars are all offered on Merinda in both versions, on Ella and SheerWeave 7450, and on the blackouts SheerWeave 7001 and 7400, Cosima and Flocke. The sheers and the rest of the book take the Open or Sealed Pocket or the Exposed Blackout hembar.
Widths to 118 inches
Rachel and Merinda roll 118 inches, the widest in the book; Perla, Wende, Mika and the Phifer designs 116; Flocke 93 and Vizela 92, the narrowest. Railroading takes a shade past the roll width and is allowed only on SheerWeave 7001, Flocke, Bella and Dilanna, which counts when a Designer layer must match a wider Heritage screen.
How the Designer book is used, room by room
Bedrooms and media rooms start from the night. A room that has to sleep, or a television that has to be watched at noon, takes a blackout, and the question is what goes in front of it. Where there is a view worth keeping, the day layer is a Heritage screen with the Designer blackout behind it on a dual roller. Where there is not, the day layer comes from this book too, and the twins make the colour decision once: a light-filtering Bella, Mika, Nava or Merinda in front of the same name in blackout, Harika's sheer in front of its blackout, SheerWeave 7450 in front of 7400, Vizela in front of Flocke. Two things come before colour. Both layers have to cover the same opening, which favours the 116- and 118-inch designs on a wide slider, and a building that asks for a fire listing will want it on both.
The other rooms are about privacy by day. A bathroom, or a bedroom that looks into the next building, takes a light-filtering weave: private in daylight, though a lit room throws silhouettes on it after dark, so where that matters its blackout twin goes behind. Near a shower, Crestron's mould and bacteria resistant listing is worth reading: Mika, Ella, SheerWeave 7450 and Vizela carry it among the light-filtering weaves; among the blackouts, the Phifer designs, Cosima and Flocke; among the sheers, Nohea. The sheers go where a window is dressed rather than defended: a breakfast room, a stair landing, a wall of north glass. They are see-through by design and hide nothing after dark, and against hard sun they are the wrong tool; that is a Heritage screen's job.
Compare the Designer Collection designs
| Design | Colourways | Opacity | Openness | Tier | Max width | Mill | Dual sided |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harika | 8 | Blackout / Sheer | 15% | 3 | 110 in | Coulisse | Some |
| Perla | 8 | Sheer | 3% | 2 | 116 in | Coulisse | No |
| Sena | 8 | Sheer | 11% | 2 | 94 in | Coulisse | No |
| Rachel | 7 | Sheer | 6% | 3 | 118 in | Coulisse | No |
| Wende | 7 | Sheer | 5% | 3 | 116 in | Coulisse | No |
| Nohea | 5 | Sheer | 3% | 3 | 110 in | Coulisse | Yes |
| Bella | 22 | Blackout / Light Filtering | <1% | 1/2 | 98 in | Coulisse | No |
| Mika | 16 | Blackout / Light Filtering | <1% | 1 | 116 in | Coulisse | Some |
| Nava | 14 | Blackout / Light Filtering | <1% | 1/2 | 98 in | Coulisse | Some |
| Merinda | 10 | Blackout / Light Filtering | 1% | 2/3 | 118 in | Coulisse | Some |
| Ella | 8 | Light Filtering | <1% | 1 | 111 in | Coulisse | No |
| SheerWeave 7450 | 8 | Light Filtering | 1% | 2 | 116 in | Phifer | No |
| Vizela | 5 | Light Filtering | 1% | 3 | 92 in | Mermet | No |
| Desiré | 4 | Light Filtering | <1% | 1 | 110 in | Coulisse | No |
| SheerWeave 7500 | 12 | Blackout | - | 2 | 116 in | Phifer | Yes |
| SheerWeave 7001 | 11 | Blackout | - | 3 | 116 in | Phifer | No |
| SheerWeave 7400 | 8 | Blackout | - | 2 | 116 in | Phifer | Yes |
| Cosima | 6 | Blackout | - | 2 | 110 in | Coulisse | Yes |
| Dilanna | 6 | Blackout | - | 2 | 110 in | Coulisse | Yes |
| Flocke | 5 | Blackout | - | 4 | 93 in | Mermet | Yes |
Crestron's budgetary guide for these fabrics
The designer collection on this page sit in Crestron price Tier 1 and Tier 2 and Tier 3 and Tier 4. This is Crestron's own guide for one motorized shade, by tier and size.
| Shade size | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 ft wide x 5 ft high | $900 | $1,000 | $1,200 | $1,400 |
| 5 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,100 | $1,300 | $1,600 | $2,200 |
| 10 ft wide x 10 ft high | $1,400 | $1,600 | $2,000 | $3,200 |
Options in the same guide: fascia $20 per ft; top and back cover $20 per ft; pocket $50 per ft; dual shade (two fabrics, one bracket) double the single-shade figure. The guide names example fabrics per tier: Tier 1: Bella, Mika, Merinda, Nava; Tier 2: E Screen, SheerWeave 2500, 2700 and 7500, Perla, Dilanna; Tier 3: SheerWeave 7000, Rachel, Nohea, Cosima; Tier 4: Flocke, Vizela, Harika; a few have changed tier since, and every fabric page gives the tier the Crestron fabric shop lists today. The guide excludes control processors, keypads, interfaces, wiring, power supplies, programming and installation. Source (PDF).
Figures are Crestron's own budgetary MSRP guide of June 2022 for one motorized 5 Series roller shade, motor included, before options. They exclude the control system, wiring, power, programming and installation, and Crestron may have changed them since. We quote every project at the measure.
Designer Collection on our installations
On the coast the Designer book finishes the rooms behind the view. In a tower from Sunny Isles Beach to Fort Lauderdale that means the blackout behind the screen in every bedroom, the bathroom that looks at the next building and the media room that has to go dark at noon; in a house in Boca Raton or Palm Beach, the street side and the guest wing. On a Crestron home a pair on one bracket becomes two moves in the room's scenes, day and night, programmed with the integrator, and a book that is PVC free throughout settles the vinyl question when it comes up. We choose from it at the window, with the fabric in your own light, and settle the widths and the fire listing before the colour.
Designer Collection: frequently asked
Is every Designer fabric fire rated as well as PVC free?
No. PVC free holds for the whole book; the fire listing goes fabric by fabric. Crestron's guide lists Perla, Sena, Rachel, Wende and Nohea among the sheers, Ella and Vizela among the light-filtering weaves, and Cosima, Flocke and SheerWeave 7001, 7400 and 7500 among the blackouts as fire retardant; Harika, Bella, Mika, Nava, Merinda, Desiré, Dilanna and SheerWeave 7450 carry no listing. So a project that needs both still has a sheer, a light-filtering weave and a blackout to choose from.
Is the Designer Half-Wrap hembar only for Designer fabrics?
No, whatever the name suggests. In this book it goes on Merinda, Ella, SheerWeave 7450, 7001 and 7400, Cosima and Flocke; in the Heritage book on Esprit, Grant, E Screen, M Screen, S Screen and SheerWeave 2701, 2703 and 2705. Crestron offers it up to 120 inches wide, which no Designer roll reaches, so the limit only bites on a railroaded SheerWeave 7001 or Flocke shade made wider than that, which then takes another hembar.
Can a Designer blackout share a bracket with a Heritage screen?
Yes, and in a bedroom with a view that is the usual arrangement: the Heritage screen in front for the day, the Designer blackout behind it for the night, on one dual roller. Crestron's budget guide, printed on this page, doubles the single-shade figure for a dual shade. Check the width first, because the widest Heritage screens roll 124 inches and no Designer fabric rolls more than 118; the Heritage page goes through the pairing.
Sheer, light-filtering or blackout: which do I need?
It depends on what the room has to hide, and when. In Crestron's terms a sheer lets objects be seen through the weave, a light-filtering fabric passes diffused light with the view reduced to silhouettes and shadows, and a blackout blocks the light. By day the last two are private; after dark only the blackout is, because a lit room shows through a sheer and throws silhouettes on a light-filtering weave. That is why so much of this book comes in pairs.
Why are there so few solar figures in this book?
Crestron publishes Ts, Rs and As for every colourway of Vizela and Flocke and for a few of the Phifer blackouts, SheerWeave 7001 White and Cocoa, SheerWeave 7500 Ice and Midnight and SheerWeave 7400 Cotton, and none for the Coulisse fabrics. It matters less here than in the Heritage book, because these cloths are chosen for privacy, darkness and colour rather than for heat at the glass; where heat is the question, the screen in front of them carries the numbers.
How are Designer fabrics cleaned?
By the method Crestron's guide gives for each. The Phifer and Mermet fabrics, SheerWeave 7001, 7400, 7450 and 7500, Vizela and Flocke, take a duster or a vacuum. Most of the Coulisse cloths take a damp cloth; Perla, Nohea and Mika a damp or a dry one; and Sena a dry cloth only. The method is printed on every design page as well.
Crestron designer collection in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Boca Raton & Palm Beach
Every fabric on this page is built into a Crestron shade to order from our measurements, installed by our own team and commissioned with your integrator from Miami to Palm Beach. Our showrooms in Fort Lauderdale (4539 Powerline Rd, by appointment) and Miami Beach (500 South Pointe Dr #150) have motorized shades running so you can judge the fabrics in motion.
Choose the fabric in your own light
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