PERLA is a bar handle with a bead running the whole way along it. Looked at one way it is the turned beading you find on old chair legs and balusters, a detail that has come back into furniture on mirror frames and lamp bases. Looked at another it is a string of pearls, which is where the name comes from. Either way the effect on a kitchen is the same: a run of plain fronts gets a line of light and shadow along every drawer, and the hand finds something to hold on to.
It is machined from solid brass, not cast and not plated. Each bead is cut from the bar, with three more stacked on each post, so the texture is continuous from the front and reads as a short tower from the side. The beads give a far better grip than a smooth rod of the same thickness, and the handle has the weight you expect from solid brass: the 172mm is 147g, the 612mm is half a kilo.
Finish
PERLA comes in Satin Brass, a warm brushed gold that is forgiving of fingerprints and sits as happily against a dark green shaker kitchen as it does against pale oak or a white gloss wardrobe. The colour is the metal itself, so the beads where fingers land will never wear through to a different metal underneath.
Six lengths
The 108mm (96mm centres) and 140mm (128mm centres) are drawer and small door sizes. The 172mm (160mm centres) is the everyday kitchen handle for base units and pan drawers, and the 236mm (224mm centres) gives a full hand span on the doors you pull hardest. The 332mm (320mm centres) is made for tall larder and broom cupboard doors, and the 612mm (600mm centres) is an appliance pull for integrated fridge and freezer doors, where a short handle looks lost and a long one looks like it belongs. All six stand 33mm off the front on 12mm posts, so the lengths mix across one run without a step in depth.
Where it works best
- Shaker and in-frame kitchens, where the bead picks up the moulding on the door
- Painted bedroom furniture, from fitted wardrobes to a chest of drawers
- Bathroom vanities, with the short lengths on drawers and the matching T-bar on narrow doors
- Flat-fronted IKEA METOD, PAX and BESTÅ units that need some detail put back
- Any room that already has turned furniture or a soft, traditional line in it
Fitting
Each handle comes with two M4 x 25mm machine screws, fitted from inside the drawer or door, on standard centres so it drops into existing holes. Longer screws for thicker fronts are available on request. Sold individually, made to order, and covered by our 10-year warranty against manufacturing defects. The matching PERLA T-Bar carries the same beads on a single fixing for drawers and narrow doors.
