Futura+ and Futura+i - UK

DESIGNERS Birgitte Smedegaard and Sine Weis Damkjær “A strong handle with architectural and user-friendly qualities“ Idealcombi’s watershed handle was designed by the Danish design duo fromSmedegaard &Weis – Birgitte Smedegaard and SineWeis Damkjær. A lot of thought and ideas have gone into this beautiful and inviting handle, and the designers reveal here what it takes to develop the strongest feature of the window. Idealcombi’s clear ambition is to create and ensure quality, so we needed to design a handle that reflected values and attitudes towards a high level of quality, and functional and user-friendly products. One of the things we focused on in the early phase was ensuring that the handle would have novelty value tomake it stand out from the crowd. It needed to have a strong, recognisable identity as well as a simple, logical and self-explanatory design – and be easy to operate and inviting. Idealcombi’s unique handle We feel Idealcombi’s handle is unique and stands apart by beingmore poetic and decorative thanwhat you see on other newwindows. It is also industrial and functional and has a rugged, highquality expression. The handle’s stringent yet soft formgives it character without being dominating. The balance between its stringent, industrial side and soft nature, fitting human hands in a range of sizes, is the handle’s clear strength. Futura+has a handlewhich is an active and decorative element for the windows and doors, it is ’proud’ and has great personality. 23 / Futura+