Luxury Duet Hardware
Duet is a luxury architectural hardware collection from Lo & Co Interiors and SMAC Studio, jewel-like in both look and materiality.
Lo & Co Interiors has released Duet, a two-toned hardware range developed with SMAC Studio founder Shona McElroy. It is the second collaboration between the two studios following Forma, an exploration of sharp edges and bold geometry. This time, the reference point is jewellery rather than architecture. Built around a shared interest in mixed metals, Duet pairs brass and polished nickel within every piece, one finish brushed and the other polished.
It is Lo & Co’s first foray into a two-tone offering, a departure for a studio that has otherwise worked in single, consistent finishes. “Two-toned finishes are having a real moment right now, both in fashion and interiors,” Shona McElroy says. “It felt natural to design hardware which celebrates that.”
The range spans three cabinet pull sizes, a door lever and a knob, each offered in two colourways. The brass option pairs a brass base with polished nickel detailing; the nickel option reverses the formula, a polished nickel base finished in brass. The campaign imagery makes the jewellery reference explicit, with pieces from the range presented on a velvet-lined jeweller’s tray alongside a wristwatch.
Rounded forms recur across the knob and the bands wrapping each pull, drawn from the curved shapes common in modern mixed-metal jewellery, while the lever’s backplate and the pull handles hold a more precise line, grounding the pieces in something more architectural. The two-tone treatment also solves a practical problem for designers, who can introduce a mix of metals into a project without having to settle on a single finish across an entire room.
That pairing of softness and structure carries through to how Duet is meant to be worn within a home, treated less as fixed hardware and more as something to be styled. Lo & Co directors Arielle Lopresti and Teegan Cocchiaro extended that thinking with a coordinating tassel range, drawing on a detail more common in European interiors than Australian ones. “The hardware itself is the accessory, but why stop there?” Lopresti says.
Offered in pistachio, burgundy, khaki, toffee, pale blue and cream, the tassels introduce colour without altering the metal finish beneath them, looping directly onto a knob or door lever to dress it for a particular room or season. It is a small addition with an outsized effect, the kind of detail that turns a functional fitting into something closer to jewellery for the home.
Duet is available now through Lo & Co Interiors, with the full tassel range offered as a finishing layer for those ready to commit to the look. Between the Forma and Duet collections, the studios have now made the case for hardware as a considered material decision in its own right, not an afterthought selected once the rest of a project is settled.
