Hunter Douglas

Hunter Douglas window treatments — Silhouette, Duette, Pirouette, Luminette, Vignette, Provenance, Designer Roller, Alustra, and the PowerView Gen 3 motorization system — are designed and manufactured in the U.S. and sold exclusively through certified dealers. Request the brochures free.

A Century of Window-Treatment Engineering

The Hunter Douglas Group traces its roots to 1919, when Henry Sonnenberg founded a machine-tooling business in Düsseldorf, Germany that eventually became one of Europe's largest aluminum fabricators. In 1956, Sonnenberg's son Joe partnered with Henry Hunter in the United States to launch Hunter Douglas Inc., applying the family's aluminum extrusion expertise to the new category of horizontal aluminum blinds. The U.S. arm has been headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ever since, with manufacturing facilities in Broomfield, Colorado and a global Hunter Douglas footprint that now spans 100+ countries and 22,000 employees. The brand was acquired by 3G Capital in 2022 but continues to operate as an independent window-fashions company with the same product roadmap and dealer model.

What separates Hunter Douglas from every other premium window-treatment brand is the depth of patented engineering behind each product line. The Duette honeycomb construction (1985), the Silhouette horizontal vane suspended between sheer fabric facings (1991), the Luminette vertical sheer panel (1995), the Vignette modern Roman shade construction (1995), the Pirouette horizontal contoured shade (2008), and the Alustra Collection of designer-curated premium fabrics are each protected by their own patent families and produced exclusively by Hunter Douglas. No competitor sells the same products under a different label — every Hunter Douglas product is a distinct engineered system.

The Per-Product-Line Catalog Architecture

Hunter Douglas publishes a separate brochure for each major product line rather than a single master catalog, because each line is a distinct engineered system with its own fabric library, color palette, hardware options, and design rationale. Buyers shopping for a specific window challenge — bright morning light, deep window wells, full automation, room-darkening for a media room — generally need the brochure for the line that solves their problem rather than a 200-page omnibus. The brand-page catalog grid here lists all ten current Hunter Douglas brochures, plus the Designing Windows master brochure that walks new buyers through the full lineup at a high level.

Silhouette Window Shadings

The Silhouette brochure covers the original horizontal-vane-between-sheers product Hunter Douglas patented in 1991. Vanes tilt to control light from a soft diffused glow to full view-through transparency, with the sheer fabric facings filtering UV at up to 88% even with the vanes fully open. Available in three vane sizes (2-inch, 3-inch, 4-inch) and over 100 fabric and color combinations including the Silhouette A Deux variant with two vane orientations on a single shade.

Duette Honeycomb Shades

The Duette brochure presents the cellular honeycomb shade Hunter Douglas invented in 1985 — the original energy-efficient window covering. Duette Architella construction uses cells-within-cells for the highest R-value insulation in any soft window treatment (up to R-7.13 with side tracks), which the brochure documents with the heat-loss specifications that originally won Duette its category-defining Energy Star recognition.

Pirouette Window Shadings

The Pirouette brochure covers Hunter Douglas's contoured horizontal fabric vane shade — vanes that rotate from flat (full view) to soft contour (filtered light) on a single sheer fabric backing. Pirouette pairs with Hunter Douglas SoftTouch motorization and is one of the most-specified shades for tall windows and great-room applications where view preservation matters.

Luminette Privacy Sheers

The Luminette brochure documents the vertical-panel sheer Hunter Douglas patented in 1995 — fabric vanes rotated through a sheer panel for the vertical equivalent of the Silhouette. Luminette is the standard Hunter Douglas spec for sliding-glass doors and wide windows where vertical movement and view-through transparency both matter.

Vignette Modern Roman Shades

The Vignette brochure covers Hunter Douglas's modern Roman shade — flat folds (no exposed cords or rear tape) achieved via a Hunter Douglas-patented folding mechanism that stays clean and contemporary. Three fold styles (Tiered, Trielle, Modern), three operating systems, and a fabric library that crosses over with the Alustra Collection.

Designer Roller Shades

The Designer Roller brochure presents the Hunter Douglas premium roller-shade line — over 500 fabric options including screen, light-filtering, room-darkening, and blackout variants in solid and patterned palettes. Standard, oversized, dual (front + rear), and architectural configurations cover everything from a small bathroom window to a 20-foot great-room wall.

Provenance Woven Wood Shades

The Provenance brochure covers Hunter Douglas's woven wood and natural-fiber shade line — bamboo, reed, grass, and jute woven on hand-loomed and machine-loomed constructions, finished with the Hunter Douglas hardware platform. Provenance is the brand's answer to the organic-material trend in window treatments and pairs well with mid-century, Scandinavian, and coastal interior schemes.

Alustra Designer Collection

The Alustra brochure presents the designer-curated premium fabric collection that spans the Silhouette, Pirouette, Vignette, and Designer Roller product platforms. Alustra is the trade-specified upgrade tier — fabrics, colorways, and trim details developed in collaboration with interior designers and offered only through Hunter Douglas dealers. The Alustra Collection turns over every 3-4 years with new designer collaborations.

PowerView Gen 3 Automation

The PowerView Gen 3 brochure covers the current generation of Hunter Douglas's whole-home shade-automation platform. Gen 3 uses Bluetooth + 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (no Hub required for basic operation), integrates natively with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple HomeKit, Control4, Crestron, Savant, and IFTTT, and supports scheduled scenes that adjust shades by sunrise/sunset time and astronomical position. PowerView Gen 3 retrofits to all current Hunter Douglas product lines.

Designing Windows (the master brochure)

The Designing Windows brochure is the Hunter Douglas master design guide — a higher-altitude walk-through of every product line organized by use case (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living, media room, sliding doors, French doors, skylights, motorization, energy efficiency). It's the right brochure to request first if you're new to the Hunter Douglas lineup and don't yet know which product line solves your specific window challenge.

Trade vs. Consumer Purchasing

Hunter Douglas does not sell direct-to-consumer. Every product is sold through a network of certified Hunter Douglas Gallery dealers and authorized window-treatment specialists in the U.S. and Canada. The dealer model is core to the brand: each Hunter Douglas Gallery dealer is trained on the full product line, takes precise on-site measurements, manages the custom-fabrication order, and handles installation — turning the brochure-request flow into a measure-and-install consultation rather than a self-service e-commerce checkout. For trade professionals (interior designers, architects, builders, remodelers), Hunter Douglas operates the Hunter Douglas Trade Program with dedicated trade pricing, design-tool access, and CEU-eligible product training.

Design Tools the Brand Publishes

Beyond the per-product-line brochures, Hunter Douglas publishes a suite of design tools worth knowing about. The Hunter Douglas Design Studio iPad app lets designers visualize any product across uploaded room photography. The Hunter Douglas color and fabric library is available as a physical swatch program shipped to trade accounts. The Hunter Douglas Window Fashion University offers continuing-education courses on product specification and installation. PowerView Gen 3 ships with the Hunter Douglas Pebble Remote and the PowerView app for both iOS and Android. All of these are accessible via the certified Gallery dealer network — the brochures listed here are the natural starting point for a new Hunter Douglas project.

Free Hunter Douglas Catalogs by Mail

All Hunter Douglas brochures listed here are mailed free to homeowners and trade professionals. Premium product brochures (Alustra, PowerView Gen 3, Designing Windows master) carry the highest-quality printed photography in the residential window-treatment category — worth requesting in print form when planning a serious whole-home window-treatment project or specifying Hunter Douglas across multiple rooms.