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.
Another intriguing feature would be the magnetic lock: smooth, soundless, and highly dependable.
Yet another one is the automatic sweep, activated whenever the door is closed. Along with a number of other features, it renders this interior door’s sound- proofing and thermal insulation qualities well above the industry standard. The former ensures the owner’s privacy; the latter can significantly reduce their electric charges.
Why Antonio?
Whatever else may be said about Mark Antony (Antonio is the Italian version of his name), Julius Caesar’s staunchest supporter knew a thing or two about luxury. It was a weakness of his. When he was not preparing for battle, he could only feel comfortable when surrounded by sumptuous things. Curiously, this made his fans among the population admire him even more. He was too busy as a politician, ruler, and warrior to explore the possibility of designing or building anything himself, but his appreciation of all things beautiful was legendary in Alexandria as well as in Rome.
The information on Roman interior doors is a bit sketchy, the facts and artefacts are few and far between, but let us romantically propose that if he had to pick a door from the Cascade Style collection, this three-panel affair would be his choice. It does blend easily into any kind of interior design and, depending on the finish you pick, any décor’s color scheme.
Now it’s time for you to look at the available finishes.
FINISH: WHITE
This is a bit tricky. Isn’t White the default finish that would look great on any interior door? Well, not quite.
W. is the color most often associated with perfection, honesty, cleanliness, newness, neutrality, and exactitude. The pigment has been known and used by humans since prehistoric times. In ancient Egypt, W. symbolized purity. Roman patricians paraded around in W. togas to distinguish themselves from the common folk. It was the color of choice of French monarchs. Architects of all epochs used W., with considerable enthusiasm, in various projects and for various reasons. In the United States, architects favored it when designing churches, capitols, and municipal buildings – which is, in fact, a tradition they inherited from classical and Renaissance architecture. According to some experts, most of the buildings in the celebrated Forum were either made of, or clad in, W. marble. In Taoism, it represents the yang or masculine energy, one of the two complementary natures of the universe. Many authors, both classical and contemporary, have referred to W. as a sign of purity, either physical (like William Shakespeare, whose treacherous usurper monarch wishes a heavenly rain would cleanse his blood-stained hand, washing it “white as snow”) or spiritual (like Tennessee Williams, who named his lead character Blanche (derived, incidentally, from the Germanic word blanc)) as a symbol of her innocent child-like spirit, perceptible from the moment she makes her first entrance (through the interior door stage-left).
Back in the Seventeenth Century, Sir Isaac Newton discovered that sunlight is composed of light with wavelengths across the visible spectrum which the human eye perceives as W. It is the lightest of the spectrum, and achromatic (hue-less) to boot, because it fully reflects and scatters all visible wavelengths of light, absorbing none. W. objects stand out in the dark. Depending on the surroundings, an interior door with W. finish might come off as emphatic or tactful, dominant or complementary. It blends seamlessly into most types of decor and, once the owner’s needs and disposition are taken into account, can symbolize – oh, so many different things, while bringing back a myriad memories: from those glorious snowy Alpine slopes and peaks to the fluffy tops of the wayward herd of cumulus cloud heap over the horizon on a balmy afternoon in the Caribbean. Tropical sand beaches are W. due to the high quantity of calcium carbonate they get from tiny bits of seashells ground to powder by the waves. In a number of cultures W. can also symbolize festivity, and be used lavishly to brighten up weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries. It is beautiful. Make sure it goes well with your interior door model, though.
