Maison fondée à Brooklyn — MMXXVI Atelier · Copenhagen · Brera · Paris
CADENCE — maison de matériaux —

Atelier No. 1 — The First Opening

Une maison de matériaux.

Cadence is a house of architectural materials, drawn slowly and made by hand. We begin with windows and doors — the openings that decide how a building meets the sky — and grow, season by season, into a complete language of surfaces, hardware, and apertures.

A. M. — Director
SS '26 Collection · Première Série · 12 modules
In three chapters

Three things
the maison is about.

  1. Chapitre I

    Le Cadre — The Frame

    An opening is the first decision in a room. Cadence makes them as deliberately as a piece of furniture — solid timber, weighted bronze, glass tuned to the wall it interrupts.

  2. Chapitre II

    L'Atelier — The Workshop

    Each module is drawn in the studio in Brooklyn, prototyped in our atelier in Copenhagen, and produced in small batches by a network of joineries we know by name.

  3. Chapitre III

    La Maison — The House

    Cadence is built as a single material language for a single house. Windows and doors first. Surfaces, hardware, and apertures to follow — released on the maison's own slow calendar.

Les Pièces — Première Série

Three signatures
from twelve.

N° 01 Fixed Light

La Fenêtre

A picture window in solid white oak, drawn for the longest views. 22 mm sightlines and a single uninterrupted edge. Up to 3.6 metres wide.

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N° 07 Pivot Door

Le Pivot

A centre-pivoted leaf in solid oak, blackened steel, or solid bronze. Mounted on a single concealed floor pivot, rated to four hundred kilograms. Turns with a finger.

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N° 11 Lift & Slide

La Coulissante

A six-metre operable wall, lifted clear of the floor on a quiet hydraulic mechanism. Stacks or pockets to leave only the view.

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The complete Première Série — twelve modules
L'Atelier

Drawn in Brooklyn.
Made in Copenhagen.

"A door is decided in the last half-millimetre. We close it a thousand times before it leaves the bench."

Mette Sørensen — Atelier joiner, Copenhagen
14
Hands per opening
26
Hours per pivot leaf
3
Generations of joinery
1
Atelier per series
Le Journal

Notes from the maison.

Salles d'exposition

Visit the maison.

Full-scale modules in oak, bronze, and steel — operable, weighted, lit as they would be in a wall. By appointment with a director.

À votre service

Begin a
commission.

Cadence is specified through architects, builders, and direct commissions for private houses. A director will reply to every inquiry within two business days.