Fingertips meet these well-designed pulls, hooks, and knobs every day. Removed from the drawer, wall, or door, the feel of them in the hand is just as recognizable.
Touchables
← Door Handle / Passage / Pinear / Steel, Buster + Punch
Designer Massimo Buster Minale combined his work in architecture with his love for custom motorbikes and metalwork to found Buster + Punch in 2013. $316
→ J Hook, Schoolhouse
The essential J-shape is enlarged to make a statement on the wall in Schoolhouse’s J Hook, finished by hand in the brand’s Portland, Oregon factory. $48
← 1G Toggle / Smoked Bronze, Buster + Punch
Left: Buster + Punch turns simple fixtures into decadent pieces of jewelry for the home, utilizing rare solid metals in design details inspired by London’s subculture. $84
→ Attach Hook, Muuto
Below: Swiss product designer Dimitri Bähler pairs a metal square and round oak peg, the different tactile form and geometries creating contrast in the Attach Hook. $85
← Curvature Hook & Handle, Ferm Living
The Curvature series from Ferm Living is formed by hand from pure, solid brass, reworking the
solid metal with a distinctly human touch. $45 (both)
→ Curve Hook, Normann Copenhagen
Logic and easy playfulness define the Curve Hook by Peter Johansen—a hook distilled to its most basic shape in warm wood. $30
← Stone Hooks, Normann Copenhagen
Designer Helga Sigurbjarnadottir grants us a glimpse of her rocky home country of Iceland with the Stone hooks, made using natural stone and each different from the next. $50
A version of this article originally appeared in Sixtysix Issue 10 with the headline “Touchables.” Subscribe today.