Doors the Society has photographed over the years. These are not Collection entries. They are doors we met, looked at properly, and could not walk past without a picture.
A sliding barn door, weathered to silver. No paint has touched this wood in decades, and the Society considers that a finish in its own right. · 2014 A hand-shaped knocker on a lacquered raised-panel door. The Society admires a door that asks you to shake hands before entering. · 2026 A plank service door under a brick arch, with a vent grille added somewhere in its working life. Service doors adapt. That is their whole job. · 2008 An open doorway framing a sunlit yard. A door is at its best when it is open and there is grass on the other side. · 2011 Paired wooden doors under a pointed stone arch. Not a back door, strictly, but the Society makes exceptions for good joinery. · 2026 A red door on a houseboat moored among motor yachts. On a boat the back door and the front door are often the same door, and this one carries both jobs well. · 2011 A black and gold elevator grille, cast in a pattern nobody would design today. A door that moves sideways and up at the same time deserves its own chapter. · 2012 Embossed elevator doors, parted an inch and lit from the car behind. Every panel is framed and every frame is ornamented, all of it on a door most riders never look at. · 2025 A painted door on a painted house, blue with a purple X brace. Even a mural knows a door needs bracing. · 2006 A dark door with an oval scrollwork nameplate. Back doors are rarely given a name, and the Society would like to see more of them. · 2025 A green door with its instructions stencilled on. The Society respects a door that sets boundaries. · 2017 Number 12. A painted steel door with a brass number plate and a full-height brass edge guard, the kind fitted after a door has been pried at once. · 2009 A panelled white door in an empty room. Every door looks like this before anyone lives with it. · 2011 A lever handle on a steel door. Levers open with an elbow when your hands are full, which is why they belong on back doors. · 2006 A flush wooden door with a brass knob. No panels, no glazing, no ornament, and nothing loose. The Society counts that as a virtue. · 2009 A cream door whose brass knob has gone missing, leaving the rose and spindle behind. A door can lose its handle and still be a door, but not for long. · 2006 A red door at night beside a blue block wall, with the yard growing up to meet it. Nobody has used this door in a while, and the plants have noticed. · 2006 A red door in near darkness. Included for completeness. · 2017
