1093 Lever Handle

1093 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

Jahn/Lykouria wanted the experience of the door handle to be like a good handshake. They saw the problem as being to design a common and well-used object that is laden with his

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1088 Lever Handle

1088 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The “return handle” shown here is a more enclosed version of Model 1078 that offers a return to the door. While the return is not quite to within one half of an inc

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1080 Lever Handle

1080 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

Much has been written regarding who invented the tubular design. Most likely it was some master craftsman way back when hammering steel tubing into a handle format on the anvil

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1078 Lever Handle

1078 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

Excited by a new material (Alu-Grey), Christoph Ingenhoven returned to the major door handle design of the 1990s that FSB had marketed as the Frankfurt Model in the late 1980

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1077 Lever Handle

1077 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The FSB 1077 handle series is designed to allow architects and end users to combine Aluminum with Stainless steel. Coordinates with FSB window lever design 3477.

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1076 Lever Handle

1076 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The architect Robert Mallet-Stevens (1886–1945) designed several blocks of flats in Paris in the 1920s. He was probably the first designer to hit upon the idea of taking t

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1075 Lever Handle

1075 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The 1920s gave us three truly enduring door handle designs. In Paris, the architect Mallet-Stevens cut a tube in half and mitred it back together again (FSB 1076). The open en

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1058 Lever Handle

1058 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

FSB 1058 was Johannes Potente’s favorite. It is a slender, elegant model that is strikingly attractive.

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1057 Lever Handle

1057 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The FSB 1057 lever handle is the work of Munich designer Jan Roth. Unimpressed by the models on sale, he decided to design handles of his own. After the first casting, he too

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1035 Lever Handle

1035 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

In the autumn of 1996, the Düsseldorf-based interior designer Heike Falkenberg invited us to recreate a handle design from the past as part of a renovation project. On the

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1028 Lever Handle

1028 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

FSB 1028 is the most ornate of the handles in the FSB Light range. It’s a bold variation on the FSB 1025 theme that none- the-less retains the vital ergonomic feature

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1027 Lever Handle

1027 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

FSB 1027 is regarded as a standard in the industry. It is also disparagingly known as the ‘shoe horn’ model. The basic design was first marketed in the 1930s, desi

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1025 Lever Handle

1025 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

FSB 1025 is the nucleus of the FSB light range of handles. Its stylistic identity is clearly discernible. A straight handle grip, fashioned in cross section like the outline

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1023 Lever Handle

1023 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

When the Ulm Design College was being built in 1950s, the Swiss architect, sculptor and designer Max Bill with Ernst Moeckel devised a lever handle based on the railway carriag

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1021 Lever Handle

1021 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

Illustrated on pages 4 and 5 of a 1930s catalogue by the bronzeware company S.A. Loevy are half-a-dozen door fittings by Rachlis, Grenander, Behrens, Wagenfeld and Paul in whic

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1016 Lever Handle

1016 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

FSB ’s first gray manual published in 1990 introduced to the market a lever handle based on a design from the 1920s. FSB 1076 subsequently became the most copied handle

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1015 Lever Handle

1015 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

It is not known who created the original FSB 1015 shape. Like most FSB lever handles, the later 1015 was conceived by Johannes Potente. The clarity of the design struck a p

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1010 Lever Handle

1010 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

During a visit to the Charité hospital in Berlin, FSB staff came across a lever handle design they had never seen before, an upright oval grip yoked to a cylindrical sha

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1005 Lever Handle

1005 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

There is no shortage of wedge-shaped lever handles around. However, his version by Johannes Potente is very slender, which is often precisely the reason it is chosen. Coordina

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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1003 Lever Handle

1003 Lever Handle

Posted by Liz Cherco | Updated about 1 year ago

The FSB 1003 lever handle, styled like a miniature door on its side, is a collector’s item. Its designer is unknown.

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Door hardware
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FSB USA
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