The father of one of Kearns' friends had designed a better car-door handle — the familiar bar of curved steel with the push button under it — which helped prevent the door from opening if the car rolled.
Mr. Aaron said that his architect, Ian Cohn, had designed a new entrance using parts of the Maxim doors.
As an original twist, some of Rhodes' own textile designs have been incorporated into the museum's front doors.
"If that can happen by accident, what would happen if you did it deliberately?" asked Strauchs, who has designed prison door control systems.
He keeps an opulent apartment on Park Avenue, where he has designed everything including the door knobs.
(Other creations also reimagine the function of iconic objects of black style: they've designed door-knocker earrings that double as cameras, and a virtual-reality salon, in which a genderless neurocosmetologist tends to your hair).
Crisp is not known to have designed in metal, and the doors call to mind the work of the French designer Edgar Brandt, who had a few other commissions in New York, like the magnificent doors of the Cheney Brothers' showroom at Madison and 34th.
Lalique had designed perfume bottles for Coty, and doors for his house in Paris, but the scale of this commission is unprecedented.
Could it be that engineers had designed elevators to have this door/floor feature but, for the common good, didn't want civilians to know about it?
Our technique, which we have termed the "trap door flap," has design similarities to the appearance and mechanics of a trap door.
