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01 — On us
Aa.

Hardware
you can feel.

AURELIO began in 2014 in a single workshop in Worli, with two foundrymen and a stubborn idea — that a door handle is the one piece of architecture you actually touch every day, and it should reward the touch.

Twelve years on, we still cast every piece in sand at our Delhi foundry, finish it by hand in Mumbai, and ship in small batches to homes, hotels and the rare project that asks for hardware to be considered as carefully as the doors it lives on.

We make levers, pulls, knobs and cabinet hardware. We do not make doorbells, locks or coat hooks. We try to do one thing well.

Aurelio Bhandari
Founder & Lead designer
Plate 03
Round Knob No.02 · Aged Brass
02 — How it started

A handle
for a stubborn door.

The first AURELIO piece was made for a stubborn 1920s teak door in Bandra that refused every off-the-shelf lever its owner tried. After three failed Saturday trips to the hardware market, we pulled a pattern, cast a brass bar in a friend's foundry, filed it on a bench and screwed it in.

It worked. Then nine of the neighbours asked for one. Six months later we had a workshop, a kiln, and a small problem: people wanted them faster than two people could finish them.

We have grown carefully since — never more than a handful of new pieces a year, and never a piece that we wouldn't put on our own door.

03 — How we make it

Three
weeks. Three pairs of hands.

Every handle in the catalogue is cast, machined and finished in our own workshops. Nothing is outsourced, nothing is plated to look like something it isn't.

i.

The pattern

Each design starts as a hand-pulled pattern in a wooden box of fine green sand. The pattern is checked against a printed drawing and a worn brass reference piece — the standard the next casting has to match.

ii.

The pour

Brass — alloyed to our own recipe of 85% copper, 12% zinc, 3% tin — is melted to 1080°C and poured by hand into the sand. The cast is left to cool overnight before the box is broken out and the piece inspected.

iii.

The finish

Four finishers spend forty minutes per piece — grinding, sanding through six grits, polishing, lacquering. Five finishes are offered; all are hand-applied, and all develop a patina with use.

04 — In numbers

A small studio
at a careful pace.

12
Years of casting
40
Minutes of finishing per piece
116
Pieces in the catalogue
200k
Cycles · the test every lever passes
"A door handle is the only piece of architecture you touch with both hands. It deserves the weight of attention."
Aurelio Bhandari · Founder
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