Door hardware marks the transition between spaces and sets expectations for what lies beyond. This explains why top designers consistently choose Frascio when their projects demand hardware that elevates the entire design concept while performing flawlessly for years.
The Importance of Versatile Design in High-End Projects
Professional designers consistently navigate a specific challenge: creating spaces that maintain cohesive identity while offering distinct experiences in different areas. Hotel guests should feel a sense of continuity as they move from an elegant lobby through corridors and into their suites, while still experiencing something fresh and appropriate in each environment. Residential complexes require common areas that complement private spaces without mimicking them exactly. This delicate balance demands hardware with remarkable versatility.
Frascio builds its entire product philosophy around this need for adaptable design elements. Their hardware collections allow designers to select pieces that clearly belong to the same family while offering enough variation in style, finish, and detailing to give each area its own character.
Frascio’s Finish Options
Designers choose from one of the widest ranges of decorative finishes available, ensuring hardware always aligns with their vision.
Electroplated Finishes
Polished Chrome (625) and Satin Chrome (626) create sleek, modern touches perfect for contemporary spaces. These finishes hold up well in busy areas where looks matter as much as durability.
Powder Coated Finishes
Matte Black Powder Coat (622) adds bold contrast in lighter spaces, while Dark Bronze Powder Coat (695) brings warmth to industrial or minimalist designs. These finishes resist fingerprints and stand up to daily use.
Natural Base Material Finishes
Satin Stainless Steel (630) and Polished Brass (605) showcase the beauty of raw materials. These options create hardware with depth that grows more interesting over time.
PVD (Physical Vapor Deposition) Finishes
PVD finishes bond to base materials at the molecular level inside vacuum chambers. The result: hardware that resists scratches, corrosion, and wear so effectively it often outlasts the doors it serves. Designers who need both beauty and toughness find their answer in these options.
Design Language
Italian craftsmanship flows through Frascio’s designs, meeting modern techniques to create hardware that works in nearly any setting.
Classic Collections
Projects requiring traditional elegance benefit from collections like the Zermat Ornate Door Pulls and Levers, which feature meticulously detailed patterns and graceful proportions. These pieces would look completely at home in a centuries-old Italian villa yet incorporate modern internal mechanisms that ensure smooth, reliable operation for decades. The weight and balance of these pieces communicate quality immediately upon touch.
Contemporary Collections
The ’23 Lever Collection exemplifies Frascio’s modern sensibilities through clean lines, thoughtful ergonomics, and minimalist beauty. These pieces make strong statements through carefully considered proportions and perfect material execution rather than ornate detailing. The collection demonstrates how restraint often creates more impact than elaboration in contemporary spaces.
Functional Elegance
Lever designs such as the 270 Metro and 925 Join series reveal Frascio’s commitment to enhancing the physical experience of transitioning between spaces. These pieces feel perfectly balanced in the hand while contributing significantly to the visual language of the environment.
Solutions for Design Challenges
Frascio tackles the complex problems designers face on sophisticated projects through versatile solutions that enhance rather than restrict creative vision. When projects require unique aesthetics, Frascio’s in-house finishing chamber creates custom finishes that perfectly match specific color palettes and complement unique lighting conditions. This service ensures visual consistency throughout even the most complex environments.
Every Frascio project begins with their team studying the complete design vision. This foundation allows them to suggest hardware that enhances the overall concept rather than simply meeting basic functional requirements.
Conclusion
Great design demands that every detail works toward a unified vision. Frascio provides designers with hardware that contributes to this goal through varied finishes, thoughtful design, and proven performance.
For projects where hardware must help tell the design story, explore Frascio’s collections or talk with their team about creating custom solutions. Your spaces deserve hardware that opens doors and possibilities.
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FR International, based in Carmel, Indiana, U.S.A., provides the commercial marketplace with all the advantages of a high-end decorative hardware brand combined with strong mechanical engineering and commercial hardware industry experience. Our designs are available on rugged commercial-quality mechanical platforms that conform to market requirements. Contact us for our full ordering catalog of decorative hardware.
