Architect-designed modernist lever handle on backplate
Adolf Loos, a pivotal figure in the development of modernist theory, originally designed this handle for Villa M ller, Prague in 1930. and displays his peculiar blend of functional and symbolic formal languages, its heavy ball-end, intended to make it easier to depress with an elbow or occupied hand, was a development of a popular central European lever-type from the fin de si cle. This version sits on a large backplate with a lock. Like all iz luxury door hardware, the lever handle with backplate is available in the full range of iz materials.
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