A short history of door handles | Apollo Magazine

And yet. Despite the plethora of thoughtful designs, almost every door handle you will see today will be cheap and ill-considered. Modernism managed to make a fetish of the handle, but economic reality has always proved a formidable obstacle.

We have all become more aware of when we cannot avoid touching elements of buildings. The door handle is a critical interface with the structure and the material of the building. Yet it is often reduced to the most generic, cheaply-made piece of bent metal which is, in its way, a potent critique of the value we place on architecture and our accepta... See more