Case Studies

Blinds by Peter Meyer (BBPM) was engaged to provide a shading solution that maximised views while providing privacy at night for a residence in the waterside Sydney suburb of Tennyson Point.

From selling chocolates to emerging as one of the best known names in the commercial window furnishings sector, Domenic Musumeci from DAAC is a key industry identity. Tony Cassar talks with Musumeci about the current challenges facing the industry, as well as golf, food, and the importance of family.

With a family background in the shutter manufacturing business, sisters Cassie Yang and Megan Wu have entered into the window furnishings industry with a hands on approach to manufacturing shutters, standing out in what is usually a male-dominated sector, WFA reports.

Somfy solutions have enhanced the environmentally responsive facade of Macquarie University’s Central Courtyard.

Window treatments from Blinds by Peter Meyer closed out the design of Chalets at Blackheath, an eco-project near the Blue Mountains, where both the natural world and “hygge” - the Scandinavian concept of comfort, conviviality and contentment - reign supreme.

A collaboration between SOM Blinds and mckimm design & build featuring Zepel fabrics ties elegant window treatments in to an aesthetically and functionally unified build.

In this edition’s Ask the expert series, Tony Cassar chats with an old friend, Kevin Dahlberg from Hardback Wholesale Blinds and Awnings, about going up the supply chain, family values, restoring vintage cars and a serious boating accident that changed his life forever.

Like many who enter the Window Furnishings Industry, Tiffany Schultz and Linda Roman Kalnins “stumbled on in” after careers in other sectors. The pair met while working in the industry and the concept of Colour Stick was born - a fusion of traditional European curtain hardware with a contemporary Australian twist.

Somfy products help enhance the teaching and learning experience in a “transformative” educational space.

Two Melbourne properties have benefited from German technology and Vertex expertise in creating stylish, functional environments that offer a cool refuge from the extremes of the Australian summer.