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Doors & Entrances

The first thing a guest touches, and the detail they remember.

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Embossed copper entrance doors to a residence

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.

What this covers

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

A note from the workshop

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.

In pictures

Doors & Entrances from the workshop

The gallery

Copper laser-cut entrance door under installation

Art-deco patterned brass screen doors with slim vertical handles

Studded faceted metal entrance door panel

Brass grid entrance door with glazed panels

Steel-framed glazed entrance doors to a villa

Brass-framed glass doors with arched glazing bars

Metal screen doors set in an arched entrance

Slatted metal boundary gate and fencing outside a residence

Louvred metal boundary gate with a brass band

Brass line inlays across a metal boundary gate

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.