The anatomy of an entrance door

What separates a bespoke pivot door from a stock unit, frame, hardware and weather sealing.

A bespoke entrance door is a structural element first and a finish second. The frame must carry the weight of an oversized leaf without sag, and the hardware must locate the pivot accurately to within fractions of a millimetre.

We specify concealed multi-point locking, weather-sealed thresholds and architectural hinges sized for the leaf mass. The veneer or solid hardwood that the client sees is the final 12% of the engineering.

Done correctly, the door operates with the silence of a vault, and arrives at the threshold as the building's first deliberate gesture.