The Trapex range of door furniture is an efficient, tactile series that forms a marked contrast with the fluid lines of the Fusital handles, designed four years earlier. The essential idea of a T-shaped knuckle junction that would receive different lengths of steel – whether a shorter door handle, or a longer span of rod between two joints for a drawer – has developed into a series of milled stainless steel fixtures that can be customised by selecting the colour, finish and materiality of the handle sleeve. This allows users to create a highly personalised level of detail through the choice of a wood, synthetic rubber or knurled steel finish.

The effect is at once discreet and particular; anchored by the almost anonymous steel T shape, the brightly coloured soft rubber can be coded to reflect company colours, distinguish between genders in public conveniences or orientate users to different levels in buildings. Similarly, various richly grained wood finishes of sycamore, oak and walnut impart a sense of luxury, while the resistance against the hand of the slightly gritty knurled steel texture differentiates it pleasantly from the cold, oily feel of flat stainless steel that so obviously bears the mark of fingerprints and is difficult to grasp.

 

Desk Z, UniFor

2023

DATUM Tableware, FÜRSTENBERG

2022

Foster 620, Walter Knoll

2018

1292, FSB

2024

Tiers, Escofet

2024

Panthalassa, sailing yacht

2009

20-06 Emeco

2006

NF Collection, Karimoku

2022

Table Y, UniFor

2023

Nomos Desking System, Tecno

1987