Window handle – Cremonese CHELSEA WOOD

The studies conducted to fine-tune the Chelsea WOOD handle are an expression of Jean Nouvel’s artistic sensibility. He designed it when he was working on 100 11th Avenue Avenue in the Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, a 23-storey residential tower he describes as “a vision machine” that captures reflections from the nearby Hudson River. For the handles, Nouvel asked us for an unusual model.

He wanted a shape that was different from the tubular geometry conventionally used for the lever.