For homeowners planning a new-build or a major renovation in London, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey or the Oxfordshire corridor, Palladiom Wired is now available through the same integrator handling the rest of the home's technology — home automation, lighting, cinema, audio-visual, networking and ongoing SMARTmaintenance. One company, one design conversation, one commissioning schedule, one point of aftercare.
Lutron Palladiom Wired Shades Come to Berkshire: Modal AV Joins a Short List of UK Installers
Modal AV is now trained and authorised by Lutron to install the Palladiom Wired Shading System — joining a small group of UK integrators cleared to specify, install and commission Lutron's flagship wired motorised shade. For architects and interior designers working on new-builds and deep renovations across London, Berkshire and the wider Home Counties, it means Palladiom can now be specified with a local integrator already woven into the rest of the project's technology scope.
It's a meaningful addition to our Lutron capability. Modal AV already designs and delivers Lutron lighting installation on HomeWorks and RadioRA 3 projects, alongside our Control4, Crestron, Savant and KNX accreditations. Palladiom rounds that out with the one product most closely identified with architect-specified shading at the top of the UK market.
Why Palladiom matters in the specification conversation
Most motorised shades are designed to disappear. Palladiom was designed to be seen. The bracket is the finished detail — milled and hand-finished in solid aluminium or brass, available in seven coordinated finishes including Aged Bronze, Champagne and Matte Graphite, and designed to read as a piece of architectural hardware rather than a piece of window treatment. The roller tube sits at just under two inches in diameter, wrapped around a carbon-fibre core that keeps the profile slim even on wide spans.
That design decision is the whole point. Palladiom lets a designer put a precision-engineered object in plain view at the head of a window, instead of hiding a generic motor behind a soffit or pocket. It's why Palladiom appears repeatedly in architect-led residential work where the ceiling detail, the curtain track and the shade hardware all need to speak the same material language.
The wired system is the one that's specified at the design stage. Low-voltage cabling is run to each shade head during first-fix, the brackets are set against templates during second-fix, and the finished installation carries no visible cables, battery doors or service panels. Intelligent Hembar Alignment keeps every shade in a room — or across an entire floor — aligned to within one-eighth of an inch as they move, which is the kind of detail a client doesn't notice until they see a lesser system next to it.
Lutron's training path for Palladiom Wired is not a weekend course. It covers system design, cable specification and first-fix coordination with M&E contractors, planning around wall build-ups and window detailing, template and bracket setting, commissioning against HomeWorks or RadioRA 3 processors, and the aftercare expectations Lutron require from a dealer who carries the product.
Authorisation also sits inside Lutron's wider dealer relationship. You have to be a HomeWorks dealer in good standing to even begin the Palladiom pathway — which already filters the UK market down to a relatively small number of companies. From there, the number of integrators cleared to deliver the wired system specifically is smaller again. We're pleased to be on that list.
What the authorisation involves
What this unlocks for clients and specifiers
For architects and interior designers, it removes one of the more common scoping headaches on high-end residential projects: finding a single integrator whose credentials extend across lighting control, AV and the specific shading product the design has been drawn around. We're comfortable being brought in at the RIBA Stage 3 conversation, working to Bluebeam or Revit details, and coordinating bracket setting-out with the joiner and the plasterer.
For developers and contractors, it means we can carry the shading package alongside the lighting package on projects where both have been specified as Lutron. That avoids the split-responsibility problem that tends to surface at commissioning when two different trades are each waiting on the other.
Working with Modal AV on a Palladiom project
Palladiom Wired is a design-stage decision. If there is no low-voltage cabling run during first-fix, the wired system isn't viable, and the project falls back to Wire-Free (which has its own merits but a different aesthetic). The earlier we can sit with the architect and the client, the cleaner the outcome.
We're based in Maidenhead and work across London and the Home Counties. If you're specifying Palladiom on a project, or advising a client who's seen Palladiom in a magazine and asked "can we do that here", we'd welcome the conversation. A dedicated Palladiom Wired Shades service page will follow shortly with technical detail, fabric and finish guidance, and indicative project costs. In the meantime, you can reach us on 0333 050 9906 or [email protected].
Modal AV is a CEDIA-accredited smart home and AV integration company based in Maidenhead, Berkshire, serving London and the Home Counties. Trained and authorised on Lutron HomeWorks, RadioRA 3 and Palladiom. Control4 Gold, Crestron, Savant and KNX certified.
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