Thread: Good source for handles (asian style)

Asia

Mother of Pearl used to have some fairly high quality Asian style handles, I used some on a cabinet I did a couple of years ago. Here is the link, I haven't looked to see what they have these days.

Don't be rude artme

Thanks, the Mother of Pearl stuff looks good but I am trying to do somethign along the lines of the cabinets like these
Chinese Antique Furniture Gallery — Chinese furniture - Humble House

The lines and joinery are simple but quality handles are needed to complete the look. Why are there so many Chinese made reproductions of classic european designs and no Chinese style cabinet handles to be found for love nor money?

I am seriously considering taking up metal work to make my own.

how many and what size do you need? Damien.

I am very much still in the design stage so this is an interesting question as I was looking at the size of the wall I needed to fill, styling to match my wife's taste in orientalising my son's room and the need for a large set of either plain or bifold doors capable of hiding a reasonably wide TV with a Wii and an Xbox and a NINTENDO 64????? for goodness sake.

The asian lines and styling would therefore require a pair of large cabinet door handles and 2, 3 or 4 drawer handles underneath to maintain the lines and the style required. Real life considerations for the dimensions of the drawers include the ability to hold Wii remotes, xbox controllers and DVDs.

In summary I am thinking of a cabinet of the order of 1.2 m wide and 1.5 m high with hardware to suit. All of this styled to fit ancient chinese style but fit in with 21st century (or at least late 20th century) living.

Our problem is of course that the antique furniture my wife likes does not fit the 2010 objects we want to put in it and the fit of the 2010 objects does not easily lend itself to the asian proportions we are looking at. Of course this may be irrelevant as 2020 objects may be different sizes and I already have a hand made regency style bedroom TV cabinet/chest of drawers I made in 1996 that seems to be only just high enough for the 68cm flatscreen TV I have in it. It was however made to match the the sleigh bed and bedside cabinets I made for my wife in 1995.

What typr of finish would you like on them?
I think I have some Japanese tansu handles in my hoard. I will take some pics and see if we can come to an agreement. Damien.

Am prepared to work with most things brass or black and work from there

Hi TTC,

It's a few months since I was in there for fittings but you can buy those fittings in your reference doc. in a store in Elizabeth St. Hobart called 'Fragments'. Give them a call.

Those products from Fragments incidentally are not made in China or Korea or Taiwan from brass coated steel. They are most commonly semi hand made in India from solid brass. There's no two of them exactly the same.I like that!


Old Pete