Amisa

According to Satyendra Pakhalé, ‘The door handle is the first handshake with a work of architecture so it ought to be welcoming and enthused with human warmth.’ The objective of the Amisa door handle is therefore to convey ‘a sort of personality while in the hand’. It is a controlled, yet delicately contoured form which sits in the grasp ‘with all its sensorial honesty’ while performing the everyday act of opening or closing a door. It has a special ergonomic feature – a contoured element on which to rest the thumb when opening the door. While designing it, the designer thought of the following quote by Jean-Paul Sartre (in Nausea) ‘Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked: I was simply holding the door-knob.’

“My objective is to make Amisa door handle a true personality while holding it in hand.

A controlled, firm yet delicately contoured form which will sit in one’s hand with all its sensorial honesty, while opening or closing a door as a everyday act of living. Door handle ought to be welcoming and enthused with human warmth.” – Satyendra Pakhalé

Amisa furniture has a special feature– a contoured element to rest one’s thumb as one opens the door.

Amisa means true or unmixed feelings.