valance

Concealed with a valance or recessed into the cabinets, they can illuminate the entire length of a counter while remaining hidden from view.

Working with her sister, a seamstress, she made a textile valance for the ceiling and added long curtains on a concealed rod that can wrap the sleeping spaces in fabric.

For a clean, custom look, Arnold sometimes likes to hide the curtain rod or track by tucking it behind a valance or crown molding.

After surveying their distorted bodies and their impossible reflections in mirrors, my eye wanders off to the framing apparatuses of lavish curtains and valance.

The studio quietly held it in storage after wrapping production on the original in 2014, with its upholstered valances and window blinds still intact.