Our team of designers is composed of professional, talented, and renowned people who stand out from the crowd due to their comprehensive thinking and originative craftsmanship.
Designer famous for his attention to the rational use of material, refined simplicity, and the purity of form. His unique door handles are one of the best proofs that even a simple and commonly used objects can be both functional and beautiful.
Wallpaper* Design Award, ŁDF Must Have Award and Mazda Design Award winner, Designer of the year 2020 at International Fair Arena Design in Poznań, assistant of Furniture Design Laboratory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. His artworks were displayed at exhibitions in: Milan, Frankfurt, Cologne, London, Leipzig, Vienna, Paris, Budapest, Warsaw, Poznań, Łódź.
Maria Jeglińska-Adamczewska was born in Fontainebleau in 1983. In 2012, she founded her own design and research studio. She completed a course in industrial design at ECAL in 2007 and received a scholarship from the IKEA Foundation. She works on a wide range of projects, including industrial design, exhibition projects, and research-based design projects. She believes that research can provoke and generate new forms of responses and proposals in today’s world.
Her clients include Ligne Roset, Kvadrat, Plato, Trame, Vitra, Hermès, Puro hotels, Saint-Étienne Design Biennale, and the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
Krystian was born into a family of artists. He specialises in furniture design, holistic spaces, and brand building. His goal is to tailor the product to the needs through observing trends and behaviours, as well as utilising advanced technologies and comprehensive prototyping in his work. As a result, he creates bold and well-thought-out designs for leading companies in the furniture industry. Numerous prestigious awards received in Poland and abroad, including the iF Design Award 2017, FX International Design Award, and German Design Award, confirm the unique character of his work.
Joanna Leciejewska – a graduate and lecturer at the University of Arts in Poznań and SWPS University, is an industrial design professional and the founder of the Joa-Projekt studio. Her award-winning projects, recognized in both Polish and international competitions, are rooted in observing user needs and the context of the final product’s use. She designs products that engage multiple senses, create a unique atmosphere, and foster a close relationship with the user. She collaborates with industries such as furniture, audio equipment, optical devices, household appliances, lighting, and medical equipment. Joanna also serves as a juror for the iF Student Design Award and Design Europa Awards.
Maja Ganszyniec is a designer with a comprehensive approach to the design process. She was born in Silesia, studied interior architecture – first at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, then in Milan, and in 2008 she graduated in design product from the Royal College of Art in London.
Her main focus are human-oriented and nature friendly objects, and she always looks for opportunities to use a holistic production approach, with the focus on traditional craft. Her designer handles have simple, elegant look, and are precisely detailed. In 2022, Maja Ganszyniec Studio was shortlisted for Deezen awards 2022.
Designer, curator, and educator with a Ph.D. He studied architecture at the Technical University of Łódź, and graduated in Industrial Design from the Pratt Institute in New York in 2000. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, he joined the RCA staff as a Research Associate. In 2006 he established Studio Rygalik. He is a professor and Head of Graduate Studies at the Design Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw.
As a door handles designer, he focuses on full use of the properties of a given material to create a useful product that is not only functional, but also contributes to the atmosphere of the interior. Thanks to this approach, he achieves timeless solutions by using minimal means.
Designer, born in Gdańsk, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Design. He grad- uated in 2007 (MA). Since 2008 he has worked in the field of architecture and product. Bartek has been involved in team projects for leading manufacturers, brands and cultural agencies in Poland. The works were presented at exhibitions and received awards at the furniture fairs, including the Good Design award in 2011 granted by the Institute of Industrial Design. At the end of 2013 he moved to London where he continued his professional career in well-known design studios. He worked total of six years there developing solutions for leading international companies. Between 2021-22, he lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk with- in the course of Social Design and Teamwork International Design Practice. In 2021, he founded Design for Industry – Bartek Lewandowski to cooperate with manufacturers, companies, institutions in order to create unique solutions, services and products for everyday use. In his works he looks for new solutions and func- tionality, as well as the beauty and elegance of objects.
Welcome to the world of door handles designed to delight.
Launched in 2017, the APRILE collection embodies timeless beauty based on harmony and classic proportions. APRILE door handles and door knobs are designed for customers looking for original but balanced forms, far from pretentious designs or fleeting trends. The highest quality materials, advanced technological processes, and the vast experience of respected global manufacturers guarantee perfect workmanship and comfortable use of each piece of ironmongery with our logo.
We strongly believe that beautiful objects can also be functional, and vice versa. That’s why in our interior door knobs and handles designs we used classic proportions and divisions, and based the patterns on shapes natural to the human eye in combination with unique inspirations.
This is how the APRILE brand and our beauty patterns were created, and gained their current form. The APRILE collection handles have successfully passed tests at the Institute of Precision Mechanics, obtaining the 4th (highest) use category and the 7th (highest) durability category, covering 200,000 duty cycles.
The above parameters are confirmed by the National Declaration of Functional Properties.
Since the beginning of APRILE brand, we closely cooperate with several renowned Polish designers, such as Maja Ganszyniec, Jan Kochański, Krystian Kowalski, and Tomek Rygalik. Thanks to this, we aren’t limited to only one design style, and are able to continuously create new products and innovative solutions.
APRILE’s design partners share with us common values: passion for design, the ability to combine function and style in a unique way, high craftsmanship standards, and attention to every single detail no matter how small it seems to be.
Door handles and knobs, as well as window handles, cabinet knobs, floor door stops and other ironmongery pieces available in the APRILE collection, are made of zamac (an alloy of zinc and aluminium, called also ZnAl), and brass. This guarantees extremely high durability and wear resistance of our interior door knobs and lever handles, thanks to which they can be safely used both in residential or commercial spaces.
We have ensured that our handles meet all expectations of a modern world by creating a fusion of premium quality, comfort, and aesthetics.
