Description
THE DOOR NAME ORIGIN – “CASCADE STYLE ANTONIO”
This interior door is a three-panel job that is a quintessence of traditional sumptuousness intentionally reduced to elegant modern simplicity.
The molding layers (cascade style, characteristic of this collection), apart from adding to the elegance, also render the door more durable – more dependable, reinforcing its structural integrity.
To be sure, a number of wonderful and impressive technological breakthroughs of the recent years have given our designers an opportunity to be more creative. Affordable luxury is our motto, remember? Look at the finish.
Traditional finishing techniques do not keep the interior door from warping, which is always a risk in a humid climate. Because of this, the designer and the engineer have to think of other ways to ensure dependability. This increases the cost and limits one’s imagination. With the “wrap” method, however, these concerns are a thing of the past. The process, utilizing heat and pressure and working on molecular level essentially fuses the door and the finish, rendering the final product warp-proof, scratch-proof, fade-proof and water resistant all at the same time. The result is an interior door an eighteenth century Italian or British aristocrat eager to show off would certainly envy you.
What else? This interior door comes with all the wonderful features our customers have come to expect, such as the state-of-the-art hardware. This includes the 3D- adjustable, Italian made, self-lubricating concealed hinges. The adjustability makes the installation a walk in the park. The self-lubrication ensures your interior door will never creak. “Concealed” means just that. You’ll never see the pin – from either side of the door – once it’s closed. In fact, there is no pin. For more detail, explore the hardware section on this site.
FINISH: PRIMED
The advantages of this approach – of this type of interior door finish – are fairly obvious. Pick a color, any color that suits your projects best. Mix and apply. Re- coat whenever you feel it is necessary to do so. Touch it up. It gives you, the proud owner of these interior doors, complete freedom of choice, and the significant savings, especially where it comes to bulk orders, can be a true source of joy.
As Kurt Vonnegut mentions in one of his novels (Bluebeard, unless I’m mistaken … check it out when you get a chance), the thrill of laying on colors is a large part of the artist’s professional satisfaction. In other words, a keen pleasure.
When back in the remote past visual arts became a field dominated by professionals rather than hobbyists, the main problem of “just laying on paint” became obvious: you can’t.
The medium of choice back then was egg tempera, a permanent, fast-drying substance consisting of colored pigments mixed with a water-soluble binder medium, usually glutinous material such as egg yolk. Portraits and ornaments were executed in this medium, and the wood panel was the surface of choice. One of tempera’s interesting features is that it is not as easily absorbed by wood as other mediums. Some sort of primer was necessary, of course, but pretty much any substance that dried evenly could be used.
