Lutron’s newest motorized drapery rod is 1.25 inches thick. Everything that moves it lives inside Palladiom Drapery, the brand’s first surface-mounted decorative rod with the automation built in.

The design argument is subtraction. No motor housing. No cords. No valance to hide the mechanism, because there is nothing left to hide.

Machined aluminum, hand-finished, in five options: Pure White, Black Anodized, Clear Anodized, Bronze Anodized, Satin Nickel. The cross-section is a flattened oval, closer to a pill than a circle. That shape resists deflection, which is how a single track spans 12 feet without a splice and 30 with them.

The end treatments do the visual work. Cap, bracket, or finial, each deciding how the rod meets the wall.

The fabric is yours to specify. Lutron supplies the movement, not the material.

Carriers travel at five inches per second. Slow enough to read as intentional. Consistent enough to run an entire floor of guest rooms on one schedule.

Curtains have had their comic moment. This is the straight man.

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