Providing a pivotal solution for creative agency
While most of our work is in residential properties, we’re just as at home creating amazing doors for commercial clients. In this project, digital marketing agency, The Bigger Boat, asked us to design and craft an internal workplace door so original and breathtaking that it would hint at the level of creativity the agency’s own clients could expect.
Our client wanted a door with immediate impact and real wow-factor, anything but conventional. On top of that, it needed to fit the overall aesthetic of the agency’s offices, which are appropriately cool and contemporary and occupy a converted West Yorkshire mill. Luckily for us, the fact that the office walls hadn’t yet gone up meant we had an as-yet undefined space to work with, translating into far more creative freedom than usual.
Never ones to shy away from any creative challenge – and always happy to collaborate – we worked extremely closely with the client, playing with a wide range of ideas and designs before settling on ‘the one’.
The finished product is a remarkably innovative extra-wide pivot door in a wonderfully irregular shape. We used advanced routing technology to create an amazing 3D tessellated surface in gorgeous tropical hardwood. Meanwhile, the door’s deliberately uneven crenelated edges add yet more detail and interest.
The leaf itself rotates almost effortlessly on a precision engineered spindle, fitting completely flush and almost seamlessly into its surrounding walls, thanks to their corresponding crenelations. Of course, the walls themselves are in the same tessellated tropical hardwood, which means that the door becomes almost imperceptible when closed.
This was a highly creative project even by our standards, but it gave us a welcome chance to showcase just how far we can push the envelope when it comes to designing and engineering truly bespoke one-off doors. As well as performing faultlessly day after day, the finished product is beautiful and whimsical, with all the unique character and charm our client asked for.
“We know ourselves that a wide-open brief isn’t always easy to work with, but Deuren delivered in grand style. Fun, clever and definitely different, the door is also stunning to look at, and together these qualities help it to make a brilliant first impression on visitors as well as being a talking point.”
