Did Nancy Reagan ever tell you that drugs are bad, mmmkay? Or di Mr Mackey from South Park ever tell you to ‘Just Say No!’  ? If you have never been exhorted to stay away from mind-altering (and might we add, illegal!) substances like the demon weed, or every hippy’s favourite brain-expander (then rapid collapser…) acid, you will certainly wish that before you have escaped from this room, red-faced, wild-eyed and panting! It should be obvious why we at Architectural Classics have fallen in love with it though… No, not for its pseudo-psychotropic effects! Simply because it...

Have you ever wished to really annoy everyone that came to your door, especially those that you know and like well enough to let them inside your home? Sure, who hasn’t?! Well, the Defendius Door Chain is just the product! I am sure this door chain is a reversed-sort of model that is supposed to be installed on the outside of the door, rather than the inside. Door chains are only supposed to hold the door at a certain point, so that people can’t push inside, if they are used as a security device. The Defendius doesn’t change that at all - it only takes longer to get it to the...

You know, we used to think we sold every sort of door accessory imaginable. Most people just have a simple door knob or lever handle on their door, right? Well, we have door knockers, finger plates, escutcheons, espagnolettes … we thought that if you named it, we’d have it. Well, we were wrong (sob! sob sob!). We have found another sort of really striking doorway accent, available on Amazon in Germany. They are called indoor frames … or at least they are in German … made by a company called Eigengold. Truly, as the company describes it, “The meaning of in - door now becomes a...

For us at Architectural Classics, there is a little in the world that is more useless than a door which you can’t put a handle on. For one thing, it is like a dog that doesn’t lick you … just soulless somehow, although very convenient! For another thing, it doesn’t pay our wages, and keep us researching and writing mad, crazy articles about new developments, designs from the stupid to the brilliant, and technological advancements in doors and door handles. However, we’ll make an exception for the Nomad system … only because it is so striking! If you live in an open...