Lonso
Atelier of furniture hardware, since 2014
The door
of a cabinet is a thesis.
N°01 — Featured pieces
The room, held
in the hand.
Our work begins where most cabinetmaking ends — at the moment the hand closes around the door. Each piece in the Spring 2026 collection is turned, cast or carved by a maker we know by name, in a workshop we have visited.
See all 27 pieces →N°02 — Position
We make the
smallest
piece of the
room.
The hand is the first client
Before the eye approves, the palm decides. A cold knob turned slow is a different piece from a warm one turned fast. We design for the second reading.
Material decides tone
Brass insists, bronze argues, copper remembers, iron forgets. We select metal for what it will do in ten years, not in ten minutes.
Hardware is architecture, miniaturised
A handle is a façade. It hangs a proposition about the whole room from a single point. Treat it like a column, not a button.
Slow production is the only honest production
We make pieces that outlive their installation. Five days in Malmö is nine in Cork is twelve in Kanazawa. The lead time is not the delay — it is the piece.
N°03 — The library of finishes
Six metals, six ages. We pick for what the piece becomes after you stop looking.
Hover a finish to see the piece age in the window at left. Everything is real metal, photographed at its sixth year of handling.
N°04 — Process, eight days
From bar stock to boxed and hand-sealed, in eight working days.
Drawing
Studio
We draw on paper, never in vectors first. A piece begins as a hand-traced radius.
Blank
Bar stock
Solid metal — brass, bronze, copper or iron — is cut to a blank and weighed. Every piece begins as a mass.
Form
Lathe / Cast
Turned on a lathe, cast lost-wax, or hand-sculpted. No CNC without a human hand on the final pass.
Finish
Bench
Patinated with heat, acid or time. We let the surface disagree with itself before we seal it.
Mark
Atelier
Struck with the maker's mark and numbered. Photographed in the same window, by the same camera.
Post
Wrap
Wrapped in linen, boxed in dyed cardboard, sent with a handwritten card and a spare mounting screw.
N°05 — Studio, for architects and the obsessed
Try a piece
on your actual cabinet.
Upload a photograph of your door, pick a shape and finish, and place the piece in real time — in three dimensions, with the correct projection, weight and shadow. Save the render, export a spec sheet, or hand it to your installer.
N°06 — The archive, 2026