New Group Martin Pierce Designer Door Handles And Door Levers | Increase your home beauty with Martin Pierce luxury door handles, illuminated door handles and hardware collections. Visit our website to browse our designer custom door knobs and custom door handles for both interior and exterior applications. | x |
- Martin Pierce Bathroom Accessories
| Give your bathroom a unique look with martin pierce bathroom accessories. Visit our website to view our collection of luxury bathroom accessories. | x |
- Martin Pierce Custom Furniture
| Martin Pierce custom furniture pieces are available in very limited quantities and sold “to the trade only” via design professionals. Those items with japanning detail are part of a limited edition and are signed and numbered by Martin Pierce. | x |
 An Introduction To The Different Door Handle Styles of Martin Pierce | At Martin Pierce Hardware we offer several architectural hardware collections that will satisfy your interior design requirements. Our door handles are available in a seemingly endless variety of styles. Choose variety of door handles from our unique collection. | x |
- New Modern Door Handle Design By Martin Pierce
| Martin Pierce is the well known name in the world of custom door handles. All the door handles design by Martin Pierce is not only unique in design but high in quality also. | x |
- Door Handle Styles How They Evolve
As such it is a design philosophy at the heart of Martin Pierce’s work and continues to influence his door handle designs as seen in his current new door handle design.
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- A Variety Of Door Handle Styles
| A knob, lever or backplate? Entry or passageway? It seems there are no simple questions when it comes to interior design. Which door handle style best suits your design project is one of those seemingly simple questions that become a bit more complicated as you begin your search for the perfect door handle. | x |
- New Contemporary Door Handle By Martin Pierce In Development
| Martin Pierce continue to share updates on the progress of this new and innovative door handle. Progress continues on the new tree door handle that Martin is working on. Call us at 323-939-5929 or visit website to explore variety of door handles. | x |
- Door Handles For The Office And Home
| The areas of commercial and residential design demand a different type of door handle. We might only use the door handle to our kitchen a few times a day but consider the number of times a door handle in a guest suite may be used in a hotel or casino. | x |
- Update your interior design with new hardware and door handles
| Are you looking for an easy update to the interior or exterior of a residence or commercial project that will make a big impact? Seemingly simple items like custom door handles, mail boxes and door knockers can elevate the curb appeal and make your visitors excited to see what the interior has to offer. | x |
- Yacht Door Handles What To Consider
| Every yacht not doubt is as much a cherished home to its owner as any land based house. So are there any special needs a yacht owner needs to consider when choosing a yacht Door handle? | x |
- A Towel Bar For Every Style Of Home
A single towel rail is probably the most common choice for bath areas. Small urban apartments, boats and yachts require a bit of careful planning when it comes to selecting bathroom hardware.
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- Door Knobs for Children and the Young at Heart
| If you search the internet it is easy to become overwhelmed by the plethora of ideas on how to decorate your children's bedroom so here I will focus on sources and themes for door knobs that both parent and child may enjoy. | x |
- Having The Right Door Pull
| Working with a professional designer is especially important when a home owner is choosing custom door hardware for their existing home that needs renovation. | x |
- Different Ways To Remodel Your Dining Room
| When planning to remodel a room many of us begin with the color scheme and build our design from there. While this is admirable it may also unwittingly turn us into trend followers. So what other approaches are there? | x |
- Light up the room with our new bronze candlesticks
| Delicate in appearance only, these candlesticks are cast in solid bronze and measure 14" high and 6" wide at the base. They accommodate a "chime" or processional candle with a .5" diameter. This unusual size can be purchased from specialty shops like General Wax in North Hollywood, California. | x |
- Door Handles - How To Chose The Right Type Of Lock
| Choosing the right door lock for your door and one that will work with your door handle trim can be a daunting task even for the seasoned design professional. | x |
- What To Consider When Choosing Door Handles For A Home Renovation
| A lot will depend on how you are planning to use the door handles, Tips you may want to consider before choosing door handles for a home renovation. | x |
- Reflection of KAUAI Beauty in Martin Pierce Work
We have recently shared our Hawaiian cabinet pulls on Instagram so wanted to share some photos from our recent trip to Hanalei Bay in Kauai, HI.
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- Anatomy of a Custom Patio Door Handle
| As mentioned in an earlier piece, we were recently commissioned to adapt our Ergo Door Handle so that it could be used as a low profile door pull for sliding patio doors. | x |
 Beautiful Videos of Custom Door Handles Collection By Martin Pierce | Beautiful Videos of Custom Door Handles Collection By Martin Pierce | x |
- Choosing The Right Door Lock For An Entry Door
| When it comes to ordering door hardware the fun part is choosing the right style of door handle to suit both your budget and taste. There are many sites that offer a full range of door handles but Martin Pierce offer a very extensive range of custom door handles. | x |
- Unique Bronze Towel Rails
| We are known for casting unusual custom door handles and our creative designer clients often will come to us with their ideas for a new concept which is how the dialogue began with a design group in Florida who specialize in luxury yacht interiors. | x |
- Powder Coating Door Handles by Martin Pierce
| Many brands have their own distinctive color and we are now working to find ways of incorporating brand colors into our steel handle designs. We recently worked with Mike Hong to add a particular shade of blue to a custom scroll ended handle for a resort in the Bahamas. | x |
- Martin Pierce's Custom Door Handles Shown in New Video Release
| Martin Pierce Hardware has now brought out their first comprehensive but succinct video showing their range of creative and luxury door handles. | x |
- A Textural Approach to Luxury Door Hardware
| While much of what we cast is visually dramatic where possible we like to add a textural note to our Luxury door hardware. The lost wax method of casting is perfect for creating deeply textural pieces that would be almost impossible to achieve with less expensive casting methods such as sand casting. | x |
- Trees That Inspire Door Handles
| Not all trees lend themselves or rather bend themselves to work as luxury door handles so when creating a tree door handle we use considerable artistic license. With our Hedgerow design we blended several different trees and tree parts. | x |
- Celebrating Christmas with Martin Pierce Cabinet Knobs, Capitol Records and Patron
| Here at Martin Pierce we celebrate the Christmas season in true Hollywood style. Living in the Hollywood Hills we have a great view of the iconic Capitol records building which every year celebrates the season with an illuminated Christmas tree. | x |
- Nature Inspired Door Hardware By Martin Pierce
| While many of you across the U.S. and Canada are digging yourselves out of yet another winter storm we are continuing to bask in unseasonably warm weather here in Southern California. I don't share this to make you feel bad but, rather, to introduce you to some of our custom hardware collections that will have you dreaming of blue skies and warmer climates. | x |
- Chosing Cabinet Pulls for Christmas Ornaments
| While we make all of our unique cabinet pulls to order, some of our designer clients plan ahead and use our unusual cabinet knobs as a special Christmas gift or even as stocking fillers. Watch out now. | x |
- Looking Forward to 2017 With New LED Lighting
| Through-out 2016 Martin Pierce has been busy designing, sculpting and developing prototypes for his new LED illuminated door handles, cabinet pulls and sconces. We are looking forward to a new year with new products and with new ventures which we wanted to preview in the last days of what proved to be an interesting and creative year. | x |
- What Do We Mean by Custom Door Handles?
| We decided to launch 2017 with some notes for designers who may be looking for custom door handles and hope to explain when custom work is a viable option. To begin with, for many people, the term “custom” is used to describe the production of a piece for a specific customer, in other words it is made to order for that customer and not a stocked off the shelf item. | x |
- Custom Door Pull Collection with a Colorful Twist
| While they are known for their unusual door handles, Martin Pierce Hardware are not known as a design source for powder coated door hardware, so why the departure? When asked, Martin Pierce replied, “While oil rubbed bronze door handles are naturally beautiful and have their own unique patina, designers are often looking for a door pull that will make a dramatic entry statement and vibrant powders give designers an almost endless palette of colors to choose from.” | x |
- Making a Statement with Colorful Entry Door Handles
| While oil rubbed bronze door handles are naturally beautiful and over time develop their own unique patina, designers seeking a more dramatic entry statement may want to consider powder coated steel as an option. We are fortunate in Los Angeles to have access to highly skilled powder coating experts like Dan Regan owner of Primo-Powder. | x |
- Luxury Handles for Windows by Martin Pierce
| We have described in other posts how we adapted our custom door levers and escutcheon designs so they would be compatible with privacy and passageway latches, deadbolts and mortise locks and could be specified according to the door function they performed. | x |
- Luxury Door Hardware by Martin Pierce
| Martin Pierce collection of contemporary door handles, door hardware and cabinet pulls are available in bronze and stainless steel finishes. All the accessories are unique in design and custom made. | x |
- Golden Door Handles
| While we have on occasion silver plated our designs thereby earning the description of luxury door hardware, the appearance of opulence can be achieved in silicon bronze. We often visualize bronze door handles in darker more antique oil rubbed finishes but cast silicon bronze has much richer golden tones. | x |
- Organic Inspiration for LED Wall Sconces
| We have named our recent wall sconce Dragon Egg as we were riveted by the special effects and scenery of this show but this was a tongue in cheek naming and while the gourd shape may be egg like the texture of the piece is not.In this and in the next few posts we will be looking at how our new LED wall sconces and illuminated door handles came to life. | x |
- Making Unique Cabinet Knobs from 2 Dimensional Art
| I have recently been sorting through our digital collection of Martin Pierce’s drawings and wanted to share these with our blog followers. As a door hardware designer, our clients who are themselves designers frequently ask us to create unusual cabinet knobs as statement pieces for residential projects and also for public spaces in commercial settings. | x |
- When to Use a Door Knob Versus a Door Lever?
| Door knobs by nature are a handles that can be turned either clockwise or anti-clockwise to release the door latch. By comparison a door lever unless it is operating a multi-point lock has to be depressed to release the latch. | x |
- Collage of LED Door Handles
| We will soon be releasing our new UL LED products into the design world and thought it would be fun to create a collage made from parts of our new pieces to see if you can identify which sections came from which product. | x |
- Custom LED Wall Sconce Cast in Bronze
| Our Floral Wall sconce is now available to Interior Designers and design professions as a UL listed low voltage luminaire and can be specified in a light or dark oil rubbed bronze patina. At present we are offering the sconce in single color, red, green, blue or white LED’s and later will be adding color changing LED’s. | x |
- New Handles and Lighting A Spring Summer Preview
| As we approach day time savings we wanted to update you on our forthcoming new handles and lighting and new internet partnerships. We are also continuing our time-lapse video of the new Hedgerow illuminated door handle which we began last year and which we hope to complete by the end of the year. The new Hedgerow handle is extremely intricate and it has proven to be technically challenging to find appropriate areas to incorporate LED lights. | x |
- Illuminated Door Handles
| Our newly developed illuminated door handles were designed to add beauty, color and fun to entry and interior doors. Moreover, the development of LED door panels opens the way to custom LED handles for hotels, restaurants and other hospitality projects where brand color and logo identity can be illuminated. | x |
- Wall Lighting - Dragon Egg LED Sconce
| This time Martin Pierce bring artistic wall light UL listed perfect for bars, restaurants a mood setting must. Visit website for new collection of LED Wall Sconces. | x |
- Unusual Wall Light Debuts in Martin Pierce Video
| Artistic wall lights and illuminated door handles make their debut in Martin Pierce's new Spring collection.Colorful LED lights take center stage in this collection of custom door handles and mark the company's move into the arena of luxury wall lights. These low voltage collections are available to designers and architects. | x |
- Beautiful Illuminated Door Pulls - Cylindrical
Browse our luxury collection of Illuminated Door Pull. We began with our cylindrical door handles which have been redesigned to house a small color changing LED unit that is connected to a low voltage power supply through an electrified hinge or other power transfer unit. The Coral door panel was the next lit exterior door handle to be designed followed by the Fish door pull.
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- Decorative Door Handles Inspired By Bees
| The bumble bee is part of our Netsuke collection of animal door handles which includes a lizard, a frog and rabbit. All of our work is made to order and designed and manufactured here in Los Angeles. | x |
 Ocean-Inspired LED Illuminated Door Handles from Martin Pierce Martin Pierce, the Los Angeles based shop featuring custom furniture and artistic hardware specializes in originally designed, cast and hand-tooled organic style pieces using the lost wax method.
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- Ladder Door Pulls by Martin Pierce
| Here in Los Angeles the trend towards more dense and smaller residential housing can be seen throughout the city but there is also a trend a foot towards larger door pulls for entry doors and public areas. We suspect that both trends will continue and so are developing a series of grand large scale door pulls. | x |
- Ladder Door Pulls by Martin Pierce
Here in Los Angeles the trend towards more dense and smaller residential housing can be seen throughout the city but there is also a trend a foot towards larger door pulls for entry doors and public areas. We suspect that both trends will continue and so are developing a series of grand large scale door pulls.
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- Unique Handles - How Form Follows Nature
| The jumping cholla bears an incredibly strong textural similarity to our Morphic door hardware and you would be forgiven for suspecting that Martin used this as his inspiration for this series. | x |
- Unique Door Handles in Steel - A New Spin on Hedgerow
| We have been focusing on re-vamping our website and in doing so have been developing new pieces, new videos and new finishes for some of our signature pieces. The Hedgerow door pull is perhaps our most well known and iconic piece that represents our love of trees and natural forms | x |
- Unique Door Handles in Steel the Place where Art Nouveau Meets Modern Design Trends
| The Hedgerow tree door handle is the signature piece in Martin Pierce’s unusual door hardware collection so it is not surprising that Pierce has decided to reinvent his work by casting this piece in stainless steel. | x |
- Moths and Butterflies- It is the Season for Insect Cabinet Knobs
| We have this year enjoyed a refreshingly wet winter here in LA and as a result have an abundance of flowering trees and foliage so it should come as no surprise that we have a large insect population. Contact Martin Pierce for Luxury door hardware. | x |
 Meet Martin Pierce World Famous Manufacturer of Unique Door Handles | We design and make unusual door handles, cabinet pulls and door accessories for both commercial projects and residences. Our work is made to order; rather high end and we have a small studio where we are available by appointment to show our collections. | x |
- Classical Door Hardware Now Trending
| Lately we have been focusing on LED technology which has made it possible to introduce color changing lights into our new panel and cylindrical door handles. With all the hype afforded LED luminaires it is easy to lose sight of the importance of classical door hardware. | x |
- Arts and Crafts Movement Inspiration for Door Hardware
| One of our earliest introductions to the American arts and crafts movement came when we discovered the Gamble House in Pasadena. This gem is a perfect example of the craftsmanship and artistry that is the name sake of this organic architectural style. | x |
- Large Exterior Door Pulls
| With the continued surge in construction we are seeing more demand for large exterior door pulls and ladder pulls both in the commercial and residential sectors. In the early 2000 period our large “Heroic” door handles topped out at a mere 19” for our Hedgerow and Ergo handles but by 2012 we responded to demand and revised our Ergo series to include an epic 35” tall handle. | x |
- Shedding Light On Cabinet Pulls
| We are now introducing LED spot lights into our Morphic series and have recently released our color enhanced illuminated door handles that can be used on any new door designed with a channel for the low gauge wiring or any door where power can be supplied by a power transfer unit. | x |
- Creating Custom Door Hardware Using The Lost Wax Method of Casting
| We are frequently asked to make one of a kind door handles for designers looking for a statement piece for a restaurant or retail project or corporations looking to expand their brand presence.As a company we do a lot of custom casting but the process we use to create our work is costly and does not lend itself to value engineering. | x |
- Why our LED Door Handles are Suitable for Restaurants and Hotels
| I was recently asked a seemingly simple question but on closer inspection realized that the answer deserved a better account of why our recently launched illuminated door handles are appropriate for outdoor areas in hotels and restaurants. | x |
- Wasp and Insect Cabinet Pulls
| To say that Martin Pierce is fascinated by insects would be an understatement and it explains why insects and their habitat figure so much in his cabinet pulls as well as his paintings, sculpture and furniture. | x |
- Bees - The Perfect Door Knob for Your Children's Bedroom
| Following on with our nature theme I wanted to share a photo I took of a small swarm of bee door knobs. The bumble bee door knob is one of 4 members of the netsuke series, a collection that takes its name from the toggles that were used thorough out the centuries as compact buttons or fastener both in clothing and in luggage. | x |
- Ergonomic Hardware Adapted to Individual Needs
| While there is a reasonable amount of door hardware that meets the legal requirements of the ADA it is often challenging to find artistic door handles that satisfy both the artistic and physical needs of any one client and their designer. | x |
- LED Entry Door Handles - Door considerations
| Our new illuminated door pulls are hard wired and not battery dependent and I was recently asked how this impacts the type of door chosen. For some time door lock manufacturers have been making electric mortise and deadbolt locks that can be powered by low voltage wires that release either the bolt or the strike and often this is done by a remote controller. Our illuminated door handles have the same needs and require. | x |
- New LED Door Handles and The Year in Review
| Following on from the successful listing of our LED lit door handles and wall sconces we have completed our initial UL inspection and so designers may be assured that the our UL approved fixtures will bare an indelible UL label. | x |
- New LED Door Handles and The Year in Review
Following on from the successful listing of our LED lit door handles and wall sconces we have completed our initial UL inspection and so designers may be assured that the our UL approved fixtures will bare an indelible UL label.
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- New Grapevine Door Knob Added to Wine Cellar Door Handle Collection
| Our grapevine door handle collection has, until now, focused on capturing the gnarly quality of vine stems and the distinctive serrated shape of their leaves, with less attention on the grapes themselves. This focus worked well for creating long door grips and horizontal door levers but was not well suited for a door knob. | x |
- New Grapevine Door Knob Added to Wine Cellar Door Handle Collection
| Our grapevine door handle collection has, until now, focused on capturing the gnarly quality of vine stems and the distinctive serrated shape of their leaves, with less attention on the grapes themselves. This focus worked well for creating long door grips and horizontal door levers but was not well suited for a door knob. | x |
- Tall Door Grips - How the Design Begins
| Lately, in large part at the behest of designers, we have begun to design some very grand scaled door grips for the public areas of hotels and clubs. | x |
- How to Create Oil Rubbed Patinas for Bronze Door Handles
| Our bronze door handles are offered in a variety of hot and cold patinas but the most popular c are our light and dark antique patinas. I hope to explain how we create these 2 patinas step by step using our daisy cabinet pull to demonstrate the process. | x |
- Color in Nature and Hot Patinas for Door Handles
| The green anole lizard was the inspirational basis of Martin Pierce’s lizard door lever. The lizard’s vivid pea green color is however a challenging finish to capture as a bronze patina and one that requires considerable dexterity and access to a blow torch, so hobbyists should proceed with caution. | x |
- Colorful Door Hardware - How to Use Hot Patinas
| Nature is a strong and continuous source of inspiration for our door handles and cabinet pulls so I wanted to complete this series of posts with a few pictures that illustrate this as well as providing information on how our yellow and maroon color patinas are made. | x |
- How to make a simple mold for lost wax casting
| Over time all things age and the longevity of a mold will depend on the composition of the mold material and frequency of use. Our frog cabinet pulls are a popular item but we still make these by using a simple gravity pour rather than injection method to create the wax replicas for our lost wax castings. | x |
- Moths a Brief Departure From Cabinet Knobs
| Occasionally we escape from the demands of making cabinet pulls and make pieces for the sheer fun of it and this was the case recently when Martin decided to make 2 bangles to celebrate this writer’s birthday. Since bronze is a heavy alloy and since the lost wax casting process is lengthy, Martin turned to 1/16" sheet copper to create these 2 pieces. | x |
- Illuminated Tiger Door Handle the Latest in This Collection of Custom Door Pulls by Martin Pierce
| The Bengal tiger takes center stage as the latest illuminated door handle and joins oceanic shapes in this fun collection of color changing door pulls. Martin Pierce has recently added wall lighting to his custom door handle collections. | x |
- Tiger Illuminated Door Handle
| Tiger Design for Illuminated Door Handle latest piece from Martin Pierce The new Tiger Illuminated Door Handle has now been released into the wild or at least that is how we sometimes feel about the internet. We have in previous posts explained how the pattern was created with old world skills using a scroll saw and aluminum sheet to create a durable pattern for lost wax casting. | x |
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