Alluminio Elivia Horizontal Wood Grain 2HS - Wenge - Swing

This unique interior door model is a combination of a number of our design techniques, with equally high levels of dependability and elegance.

Why horizontal? No mystery here. Horizontal in this case means the direction, or, to be more precise, longitudinal orientation, of the wood grain.

That’s not everything, though.

Just think of the two standard printing paper orientations, portrait and landscape. Indeed, most portraits (and I mean portraits painted – in oil, on canvas – by  experienced artists) … Where was I? Ah, yes: most of them are vertical, whilst the vast majority of landscapes (painted by honest artists, etc), from Old Masters to Impressionists and beyond, tend to be horizontal, with few exceptions. The reason for this is that each honest artist seeks to convey the impression of vastness first and foremost, as if asking the viewer to look to their right, then to their left, and then to their right again, and imagine all that great space continuing past the frame.

Likewise, as it is with this particular interior door model, the horizontal orientation of the wood grain will create for the viewer an impression of superior width of the room in which it (the door, that is) installed. It is a simple and innocent enough concept that nonetheless can greatly improve your decor by adding visual space to it.

As for the two horizontal stripes (2HS), the design was inspired by a sign in musical notation called longa, consisting of two parallel lines framed by two vertical stems. It was widely used liberally back at the dawn of today’s musical tradition – which is to say, at the beginning of the Renaissance – as a symbol for a quadruple whole note (that’s one hell of a long note, wouldn’t you agree? Four bars? Wow). Each time, the note would have to be so perfectly placed in the score, and of such celestial quality, that you didn’t want it ever to stop sounding.

What does this have to do with interior doors? Simple: as a timely longa summarized and harmonized the entire music piece for the listener, so will this interior door impart a sense of perfect overall harmony to your décor, inviting you to enjoy the moment for as long as possible. It is soothing. It is friendly. As all interior door models in the Elivia collection, this one is highly elegant and easy on the eyes. It comes in a great variety of finishes and in all standard configurations.

I hasten to add that, like all Elivia interior doors, this one comes with all the usual wonderful features: excellent state-of-the-art hardware, including the Italian-made 3D-adjustable self-lubricating concealed hinges, soundless magnetic locks, and the automatic sweep; superior sound-proofing and thermal insulation qualities; warp-resistance; flawless operation.

Moreover, the process through which the finish is applied to this interior door works on molecular level, called “stretching,” which combines – nay, fuses – the materials, so that the final product is no longer a combination of components but rather a monolith, not unlike an obelisk formed of a single block of stone.

Would it look good on your interior door? You decide.

This finish breathes equatorial passion. Modeled on Millettia laurentii, a legume tree commonly known as African rosewood, it will impart to your doors an air of cozy warmth, a feature that so many ultra-modern, deliberately matter-of-fact modern interiors so often lack. As a tropical timber, wenge is dark in color with a distinctive figure and a strong partridge wood pattern. It is known for its quaint (and curious, yes) striations of wavy grain. The wood is dense and quite heavy. When kiln-dried, the surface becomes perfectly smooth, with tight pores and very few variations in the grain.

Suitable for many types of interior door, a good wenge finish can serve as the final touch – the master stroke, if you will – in any type of decor, bringing out or emphasizing, depending on the arrangement, the most striking qualities of each nuance. It invariably conjures up images of the whispering tropical rainforest interrupted here and there by red rock ridges and cliffs rising haughtily out of the jungle; or alpine meadows and swirling mists of the wild slopes leading up to Margherita Peak. The mighty Congo River dissects the landscape, calm and confident, having exerted so much influence on the human imagination over the centuries, mysterious and alluring: so many travelers, adventurers, and explorers from various countries and cultures treated it as the destination of choice.

In certain European traditions, wenge (both the wood and the color) has long been associated with high-end products and has been vastly popular in luxury homes, as well as offices. Small wonder: it is amazingly easy on the eyes. It has that soothing quality one finds oneself coveting after a long day’s work, and it can also work wonders creating a cozy atmosphere when one is hosting a banquet, a conference, or simply has guests over. It should be able to serve as a perfect (and utterly tactful) background for one’s antiques collection; it brings out the best features of, and focuses a viewer’s attention on, paintings and photographs; it accentuates the modern interior door’s convenience and adds to the classic style interior door quiet dignity. One of wenge’s most intriguing qualities as a color is it is almost impossible to compare with anything. Is it anything like Van Dyck brown? Not really. Italian espresso? Hardly. And so forth. Singularly enough, it goes equally well with flat surfaces and raised moldings; unapologetic “functional” simplicity and intricate ornamentation.