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For nearly 20 years, Bader Art Metal has partnered with design firms, builders, and general contractors to bring creative visions to life. While our focus has evolved to meet today’s demand for luxury interior doors, partitions, and enclosures, our extensive portfolio reflects a rich history of quality craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail. Explore our portfolio to see how we’ve transformed spaces with timeless, handcrafted designs.
Perfect Measure | Chicago, Illinois
Bader Art Metal is proud to have partnered with Soucie Horner, Ltd., Wujcik Construction, and Exclusive Woodworking on the 2024 Acanthus Award-winning project, Perfect Measure. Led by Soucie Horner, Ltd., this luxury residence showcases Bader’s craftsmanship through a series of custom brass elements, including refined kitchen cabinet doors, intricate decorative screens and mirrors for the living room and primary bathroom, wardrobe doors for the primary closet, and stunning wine cellar doors. This collaboration exemplifies Bader’s dedication to elevating spaces through tailored design and meticulous fabrication.
Midwest Sanctuary | Deerfield, Illinois
Bader Art Metal collaborated with Robbins Architecture on the award-winning Midwest Sanctuary project, providing design, engineering, and fabrication expertise for this remarkable private residence. Highlights include a blackened steel fireplace facade, a custom range hood, reeded glass pocket doors, and rainglass enclosures for showers and water closets. Each element reflects the home's celebration of art and craft, seamlessly blending materials like metal, glass, and stone to create a sanctuary that embraces nature. Recognized with the 2022 AIA Chicago People's Choice Award and featured in Luxe Magazine, this project exemplifies the transformative power of meticulous craftsmanship.
Optimo Hat Company | Chicago, Illinois
After outgrowing their Beverly neighborhood storefront, Optimo, a leading handcrafted hat maker, relocated to a renovated 100-year-old Chicago firehouse by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM). The two-story space blends blackened steel details with warm wood and rich leather. Bader Art Metal contributed hatter’s benches, 12-gauge edge-welded slatted shelving, and mobile storage carts for the first-floor workshop. The second-floor studio features a walnut table illuminated by a ten-foot halo light fabricated from roll-formed I-beam and LED uplighting. Floor-to-ceiling steel shelves house historical hat making artifacts.