Hartmut Weise

In the spring of 2000, we gave our in-house designer Hartmut Weise a clear brief: 'Please design us some treats for Hand and Eye or else tools for the Hand and treats for the Eye.

Both in stainless steel.'. Hartmut Weise promptly set about punching, stamping, lasing, cutting and jointing. Very much in the spirit of the 'new flatness', he fashioned a series of designs with one thing in common - the inherent formal momentum of parts punched out of flat metal and then jointed together.

The lever handles were soon joined by designs for door knobs plus handles and fasteners for windows. A novel backplate was also conceived. All items were supplied in a satin finish as standard, and optionally in a mirror polish variant.