Interior · Expertise
Doors & Entrances
An entrance is judged by hand, not by eye.
The first thing a guest touches, and the detail they remember. Statement doors, gates and entrance frames built as single engineered assemblies.
A door has to look right and then survive being used ten thousand times. That means the leaf has to stay flat, the hinge has to carry the weight without dropping, and the finish has to take handling exactly where it is handled most.
We build entrance doors as complete assemblies — leaf, frame, hardware interface and threshold — so the tolerances are ours to control. Leaves are internally stiffened rather than relying on sheet thickness alone, which is what keeps a large door true.
Surfaces range from plain brushed sheet through laser-cut and studded panels to fully embossed and hand-beaten faces developed for a single house.
A door is a moving part first
The heaviest element in most rooms is the entrance door, and it is the one that has to move. Weight decides the pivot or the hinges, the pivot decides the floor detail, the floor detail decides the threshold, and only then is the face of the door drawn. A statement door that was drawn face-first and engineered afterwards is either heavier than its hardware likes or slower than its owner does.
Hardware is drawn with the door, not bought for it. A handle that is the wrong scale, or fixed where a hand does not naturally fall, undoes the rest of the work every time someone walks in.
How it is built
Where it is used
- Statement entrance doors and pivot doors
- Metal-and-glass framed doors
- Automated and manual boundary gates
- Decorative laser-cut and embossed door faces
- Custom handles and hardware details
- Architectural frames, thresholds and surrounds
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Doors & entrances we have made
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Doors & Entrances: what we make
Questions & answers
Questions about doors & entrances
What is the difference between a pivot door and a hinged one?
A hinged door hangs from its frame at one edge; a pivot door turns on a pin at top and bottom, set in from the edge. Pivots carry more weight and let a door be wider and heavier than hinges would allow, which is why statement entrance doors usually pivot. The trade is in the floor: a pivot needs a floor detail, and that has to be planned before the floor is laid.
Can the handles and hardware be made to match the door?
Yes, and they should be drawn with it. A handle that is the wrong scale, or fixed where a hand does not naturally fall, undoes a door that is otherwise right. Custom pulls, pushes, escutcheons and thresholds are made in the same metal and finish so the door reads as one piece.
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