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A door is experienced through use. It is opened, guided, and closed repeatedly throughout the day. The quality of this experience depends on how it behaves at the moment it meets the frame. This is where the logic of a magnetic latch becomes relevant. Closing Is a Process A door does not close instantly. It moves toward the frame, aligns, engages, and settles. In conventional latch systems, this process relies on impact. A protruding latch meets resistance, creating contact

Interior doors are often one of the final elements chosen in a renovation or new build. In many projects, they are still installed unfinished and painted on site — a method that has been standard practice for decades. Internationally, interior doors are increasingly designed as complete, pre-finished systems rather than unfinished products requiring on-site painting. At ORIBS, we are introducing a new type of door technology to New Zealand  — one that rethinks how interior do