Most cabinet hardware insists on being seen. Vestige takes the opposite position.

The new collection from Water Street Brass is built around a single idea: the insert. Each piece pairs a solid brass base with an inlay you choose. Specify it as full metal. Drop in a contrasting color or a wood face. Or match the insert so closely to the millwork that only the brass frame reads.

That last move is the point. For custom projects, the brand supplies the brass base and unfinished wood inserts separately. The cabinetmaker finishes them in the same sprayed or hand-painted color as the cabinetry, then epoxies them into place. The hardware stops being an applied detail. It becomes part of the casework.

On a single job, that means one system can stay consistent across rooms while shifting tone where a space calls for it. The forms stay deliberately quiet. In-house designer Stephanie Oh Haley cites Ellsworth Kelly and 1980s American sportswear, translated into clean geometry and flat color. Pulls, appliance pulls, and knobs cover the range, across 16 styles and, per the brand, more than 25 finishes.

For specifiers, the value is control. A boutique hotel suite, a multifamily amenity kitchen, a private dining room: each can carry custom cabinet hardware tuned to its exact palette, no second line required. The system flexes from statement metal to near-invisible trim.

Water Street Brass machines the collection from extruded bar stock and hand-finishes each piece in Jamestown, New York. For another collection that treats hardware as a material decision, see Berenson’s Cannelée collection.

_{Images Courtesy of Water Street Brass, Photography Credit: Addie Juell}