Pulls, levers, and knobs cast in solid bronze and left bare. The building goes dark and green with age; the part you hold stays bright, because you hold it.
Three shapes · one alloy · no lacquer, everA door handle is the only piece of a building you are guaranteed to touch. Everything else is looked at. This is held.
Straight from the foundry, buffed to a warm gold. Pretty, and about to change. We tell every client: this is the least interesting it will ever look.
One cast rod, tapered to the fixings. For doors that get pulled forty times an hour and need to feel the same on the forty-first.
Drops eight degrees under the hand and returns without the clack. The one piece of hardware with a moving part — so we cast it heavy and spring it light.
The oldest shape and the hardest to cast well. Turned after casting so the palm finds no seam, then left to the years.
Nobody remembers a hinge.
Everybody remembers
how the door felt to open.
Each piece is cast in sand from a wooden pattern, then turned and finished by hand. No lacquer, ever — lacquer is a promise the bronze will look like the catalogue, and we'd rather it looked like your house.