Design story: our sprung handles
We’re always working at making things even better. Function and quality are at the core of our products, so development and refinement are a constant.
Our door handles were some of the first products we set about engineering.
The knob and lever designs are timeless. And made from solid brass, they feel just as good (and reassuringly weighty) as they look.
But we wanted to go further.
So, what’s new?
On the surface
To look at, the designs are the same.
The low-profile roses still neatly conceal the fittings for a screwless look; the fine reed detailing remains on the Poplar knob; each works just as well in classic and contemporary homes.
The inner workings
This is where things have changed.
Firstly, we’ve designed and manufactured our own steel springs to sit inside a cassette in the handle.
The springs (one for lever handles and one for knobs) are pre-tensioned to the lever or knob’s weight to give just the right feel when you use it.
Our handles are heavy, and latch springs aren’t always up to the job of returning them to their original position over and over. We wanted to make sure there’d always be enough tension for this to happen – and without any drooping later down the line.
Even if the spring in your latch is strong enough, manufacturers tend to make the square spindle hole a little larger than necessary. This is to account for any difference in spindle thickness that may occur with different handle styles.
With our sprung handles, the space around the spindle is as small as can be.
You’ll be able to tell the difference straight away from the feel of the handle on the door. It’ll be sturdy, with no slack or wobble.
We’ve also reengineered the knobs and levers to be inseparable from the roses and backplates once mounted on the door. That means there’s absolutely no way the handle will ever work its way loose, or worse, come off in your hand.
And instead of having two of the same handles in the pair for both sides of the door, we’ve gone a step further and created an ‘internal’ and ‘external’ handle, meaning you can use our handles on front and back doors as well as interior doors.
The external handle is attached to the outer side of the door using throughbolts that screw into lugs on the handle, making things nice and secure. Once the spindle is then inserted, the internal handle screws onto the door handle mechanism on the inner side of the door.
The updated construction of our handles also makes them suitable for use with hotel and smart locks (so they’re great for commercial projects as well as residential ones).
Unsprung and fixed handles
Our unsprung and fixed handles have an internal and external handle too. And the unsprung versions can be used with compatible multi-point locks.
If you’re completely satisfied with your door’s latch, you can opt for our unsprung design.
It’ll have the same spindle as the sprung version; it just won’t have the internal mechanism – something that’s less important for knob styles.
There’s our fixed or ‘dummy’ handle option too.
You can push or pull on it, but it won’t turn. What it will do, though, is give a cohesive look to doors that don’t need a latching or locking function.
Published on 6th May 2026
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