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Custom door

An overview of projects, products and exclusive articles about custom door

Product • By Renlita Creative OpeningsLift - Single-Panel Counterweight Balanced Vertical Opening

Lift - Single-Panel Counterweight Balanced Vertical Opening

Single-panel vertical lifting door with no protrusion to the interior or exterior.  This system can open upward to a stowed position or downward to a basement or similar storage area, and is one of the most customizable options for glass or cladding types, mullion layout, and high wind load areas. Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption More
Schweiss Hydraulic Door on Carriage House
Two Schweiss Hydraulic Doors provide passthrough for helicopter
Helicopter Carriage House featuring Schweiss Hydraulic Door
Helicopter Carriage House with Wood Clad Schweiss Hydraulic Door
Wood Clad Schweiss Hydraulic Door on Helicopter Carriage House

Project • By Schweiss DoorsWaterways/Wetlands

The Carriage House

The Carriage House on the lakeshore property of Sid Morris, Cornelius, NC is very likely the most unique in America! It doesn't house horses and horse buggies.  Instead it houses two R44 helicopter. The chopper gets to the Carriage House by first landing on a helio pad on the end of the 200' dock. Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption Caption A small electrically driven dolly then gently lifts the chopper with operator then guiding the helicopter to its proper stall inside this remarkable 4-star carriage house which features two Schweiss Hydraulic Doors. Each Hydraulic door is remotely operated allowing for easy transportation into the carriage house once the helicopter lands o... More

Project • By Schweiss DoorsPrivate Houses

T-Top Boat Garage

HOA requirments required this homeowner to look elsewhere in order to get the clear opening that they required yet a customized look to satisfy the HOA. They found Schweiss Doors and opted to go with the Hydraulic door and clad the door to match the home's exterior and disguise the door for curb appeal.  Homeowner Homeowner Homeowner More

Product • By ECLISSEFlush-to-wall Paintable Collection

Flush-to-wall Paintable Collection

A new way of imagining and interpreting the wall: an uninterrupted, homogeneous surface with a single finish from floor to ceiling, in which the geometric cuts of the openings and skirting boards define the space.Not only plays of colour, but also plays of light to define rooms and delimit spaces. Neutral shapes to be painted or wallpapered, in the name of total freedom. ECLISSE has developed a wide range of products that allow entire walls to be transformed into a single canvas, allowing you to give the space the style, colour or surface effect you want (and without interruption!), perfectly integrating sliding and hinged doors, hatches and skirting boards into it. All products can be painted like a wall, with the same colours and texture... More

Product • By LINVISIBILEInfinito Pocket Door

Infinito Pocket Door

Infinito Pocket door is the innovative system that allows to apply diverse decorative finishes over the panel surfaces. Thanks to an aluminium outer frame system which hosts the preselected coating, the variety of finishes that can be applied to the Infinito pocket door extends to any material with a maximum thickness of 3 mm and an overall weight below 70 kg. Furthermore, the versatility of this product also offers the opportunity to apply different finishes on both sides of the leaf and to personalise the colour of the outer frame in matt lacquer, compatible with the coatings selected or anodised in 6 colours: silver, black, petroleum, dark brown, light and dark bronze. More

Product • By LINVISIBILELinea Pocket Door

Linea Pocket Door

Linvisibile presents its first Pocket Door made entirely of glass. Linea is the new proposal showcasing one of the finest materials of Italy’s manufacturing tradition. Glass is the main element of this sliding door, and not just a top layer to be applied to the panel. The Linea Pocket Door comprises an aluminium casing and a glass leaf enclosed within a 50 mm thick anodized frame. It is suitable for any environment without cluttering, and enhances spaces by illuminating them with natural light. A sliding glass door is ideal for making interiors elegant and refined. The anodized frame can be ordered in seven different colours or in matt lacquering to be combined with the glass sheet, which is available in a variety of finishes, inclu... More

Product • By LINVISIBILEInfinito 10 Vertical Pivot Door

Infinito 10 Vertical Pivot Door

The Infinito 10 Vertical Pivot Door is the new flush-to-wall pivot door by Linvisibile with 102 mm thick anodized or matt lacquered aluminium perimeter frame. Available with and without stop, this pivot system is composed of two hidden pivots (floor and ceiling) which allow the panel to rotate up to 360°. This pivoting door can enhance any design project. The leaf rotates on its vertical axis with a wide, bright and charming opening that gives a strong personality to any interiors. Thanks to its sturdy perimeter frame, the panel of the Infinito 10 Vertical Pivot Door can be ordered in any finish that has a thickness from 3 to 6 mm. It is a highly customisable product that allows applying different materials on each side and choosing t... More

Product • By LINVISIBILEInfinito Vertical Pivot Door

Infinito Vertical Pivot Door

The innovative Infinito system allows to apply diverse decorative finishes over the panel surfaces, thanks to an aluminium outer frame system which hosts the preselected coating. The variety of finishes that can be applied to the Infinito vertical pivot extends to any material with a maximum thickness of 3 mm and an overall weight below 70 kg.   Infinito Vertical Pivot door swivels open on a vertical axis, thanks to a sophisticated hidden pivot system. Available with or without stop, the door can rotate on itself up to 360° opening, obtaining a very exciting movement effect.   Furthermore, the versatility of this product also offers the opportunity to apply different finishes on both sides of the leaf and to personalise th... More

Project • By Elkus Manfredi ArchitectsUniversities

Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre

The story of Boston University’s recently completed Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre and College of Fine Arts Production Center is threefold: The new facilities enable BU College of Fine Arts School of Theatre to become a more unified and comprehensive program, with state-of-the-art facilities as teaching tools for all aspects of theatre production and performance. It is the first time in decades that College of Fine Arts performance and production students have been housed in the same location. The building is a tour de force of design, continuing to elevate Boston University’s presence on Commonwealth Avenue. With a full season of productions, Booth Theatre will quickly take its place among the many dynamic performance venu... More

Project • By Foster + PartnersOffices

Principal Tower

The completion of Principal Tower is the final piece of the Principal Place masterplan, a comprehensively planned mixed-use scheme on the border of Shoreditch and the City of London that creates a thriving new neighbourhood, drawing on the rich industrial heritage of the area. It comprises a 15-storey office building that hosts the London headquarters for Amazon, alongside one of London’s tallest residential buildings, the 50-storey Principal Tower, with six eateries that wrap around the building at street level and a light bar, creating a 360-degree active frontage that extends the vibrancy of the City towards the north. Grant Brooker, Director at Foster + Partners, commented: “The phenomenal rise of Shoreditch as the new, vib... More

Project • By 6a architectsArt Galleries

MK Gallery in Milton Keynes

The new MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, designed by 6a architects, will open to the public on 16 March 2019.The original MK Gallery was constructed in the late 1990s and is located at the top of Midsummer Boulevard, next to Milton Keynes Theatre. The new development retains the first structure and adds a new one, to more than double its size. The new MK Gallery reflects the natural world in its polished stainless-steel exterior surfaces inspired by the city’s original grid and the geometries of the adjacent Campbell Park. The completed development including both old and new structures provides five exhibition galleries, with a total of 500 sq metres of exhibition space; a large learning and community studio and The Sky Room, a flexib... More

Project • By ECLISSEShowrooms

ECLISSE SHOWROOM - MILAN - 2018

A gateway to the ECLISSE world, a place to establish a direct contact with clients, architects, designers and contractors. The ECLISSE showroom is an educational space that displays unique design solutions, harnessing the full potential of our systems.In this experimental lab the technical details interact and communicate with colours and finishes allowing the imagination to embrace new opportunities for expression, thanks to the combination of sliding pocket door systems, finishings, lighting and furniture.The entrance room displays a sample of ECLISSE flush solutions, holding a pocket sliding door and two hinged doors from the SHODŌ Collection on one side and three different solutions from the SYNTESIS® Collection on the other side.The se... More

Product • By LINVISIBILECurved Hinged door

Curved Hinged door

Linvisibile's Hinged door is available also in Curved leaf version. It is distinguished by the use of adjustable concealed hinges and the absence of door frames or jambs to achieve seamless continuity between wall and door. It can be painted in the same finish as the walls, becoming almost invisible. Or the door structure can be left visible, with only the panel forming part of the design continuum and the panel finish, to create special atmospheres, in a tasteful way. More

Product • By LINVISIBILEBoiserie System

Boiserie System

Linvisibile extended its product range with an innovative boiserie system, to decorate the walls in the same finishing as the doors. The exclusive “skin” system allows to coat, with only 3 mm of thickness, walls of any dimension in perfect planarity with the doors, for a total continuity effect. The wall becomes a whole with the door to furnish with elegance and refinement the environments in which we live. The boiserie can be made in several finishes: stone, metal, wood, glass, lacquer, leather, adapting itself with extreme delicacy to the finishing of the panels. More

Product • By LINVISIBILEHinged Door

Hinged Door

Linvisibile Hinged door is the exclusive patented door, which is completely flush with the wall and reinterprets the traditional Hinged opening; available in pull and push opening models. It is distinguished by the use of concealed hinges and the absence of door frames or jambs to achieve seamless continuity between wall and door. It can be painted in the same finish as the walls, becoming almost invisible. Or the door structure can be left visible, with only the panel forming part of the design continuum and the panel finish. It can be coated with almost any type of material (metal, stone, leather) to create special atmospheres, in a tasteful way. There are lacquered (glossy or matt) and wooden versions offered as well. More