Why Choose Solid Bronze Windows and Doors?
Hope’s Empire Bronze™ windows and doors are the ultimate complement to your luxury home, your personality, and your lifestyle.
Dating back as early as the 15th century, bronze has been an architectural material of choice for the most opulent homes. Over the centuries, bronze has maintained its status as a prized metal expressing luxury, high value, and prestige. Its ageless beauty, timeless elegance, and distinct character demand attention from all.
The Material Difference
UNMATCHED STRENGTH & MINIMAL SIGHTLINES
Solid bronze windows and doors offer many of the same benefits of steel windows and doors, such as incredible strength and minimal sightlines, but with added opulence and prestige. Bronze is unmatched for its ultimate durability and timeless beauty. Solid bronze offers exceptional resistance to corrosion, even in coastal environments.
Hopes Empire Bronze windows and doors are crafted from architectural bronze frame profiles. Architectural Bronze (Copper Development Association alloy 385) describes a metal alloy of copper, zinc, and other metals that produce incredible strength, corrosion resistance and durability. Along with these qualities is an aesthetic appeal that only improves as it ages.
Custom Choices at Every Phase of Design
DESIGN FLEXIBILITY
Every Hope’s window and door is custom designed by you – the architect, designer, and homeowner – to achieve your specific aesthetic and performance criteria.
HELPFUL AND COMPREHENSIVE DESIGN ASSISTANCE
Hope’s helps guide you along the way to ensure your vision is achieved. Hope’s has earned a reputation for continuously achieving new possibilities in window and door design. Offering more interesting forms and the grandest scales and with more dynamic functionality, no design is too ambitious for Hope’s.
ANY SCALE IMAGINABLE
Whether new construction, remodel, retrofit, or historic preservation, architects and designers incorporate Hope’s windows, skylights, and doors into every variety of architectural style from grand renaissance and gothic revival to imaginative avant-garde and postmodern luxury homes.
PATINA AND LIVING FINISHES
Bronze naturally develops a desirable patina which darkens over time, giving each window and door frame individual character. From a natural gold tone to hues of warm statuary bronze, rich deep browns, or even verdigris ¬¬– your chosen patina is created by hand using various aging processes before a protective coating is applied to deter further changes. You will work with a local bronze finishing expert to select your final finish that may include patinas or protective coatings that deter further changes depending on how you want the metal to age
Soaring windows and wide open doors
MONUMENTAL SIZES
Hope’s solid, extruded architectural bronze frame profiles can sustain the load requirements and achieve the exact aesthtics desired for immense openings, even in areas with the most strict building codes and environmental considerations such as High Velocity Hurricane Zones (HVHZ).
Historically accurate profiles and sightlines with modern efficiencies
HISTORIC REPLICATION
Hope’s partners with historic and landmark preservation committees to maintain the traditional aesthetic of historic buildings while upgrading performance and efficiency to modern standards. Hope’s offers specially designed solid bronze profiles along with unique glazing beads and muntin bars to replicate early bronze window elements such as putty glazing and historic sightlines.
Retrofit and historic replication projects benefit from over a century of manufacturing and technical advancements – insulated and low-E glass, integral groove weatherstripping to name a few – coupled with slim, historically accurate sightlines. Modern safety features such as hurricane resistance can be incorporated into bronze window systems and simultaneously complement the visual integrity of period buildings.
Optimal thermal performance
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
The intrinsic properties of Hope’s solid bronze window wand doors provide optimal thermal performance.
The minimal frame dimensions of bronze windows and doors lessen thermal transfer by reducing surface exposure. Our windows are independently certifies by the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) for U-value and condensation resistance.
The lasting beauty of superior finishes
MINIMAL MAINTENANCE
Every Hope’s custom crafted window and door is built to last several generations with minimal maintenance.
Our solid bronze windows will patina naturally over time and do not require maintenance of the living material. Topical coatings to deter aging will require maintenance if you choose this style of finish.
Efficient manufacturing and eco-friendly products
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY
Hope’s manufactures windows and doors that are energy efficient and independently certified for air and water infiltration, crafted from architectural bronze which offers a natural living finish that can last for centuries to come. Hope’s strong and durable windows and doors achieve unparalleled life cycle value. Hope’s will also assist building owners and architects seeking LEED® certification from the U,S, Green Building Council.
Windows and doors that last a lifetime and beyond
LONGEVITY AND LIFE CYCLE
Hope’s is committed to crafting window and doors only from materials with proven ability to last for a century or longer, while providing timeless aesthetic appeal. Compare this long life cycle to alternatives such as wood and aluminum, and it’s clear that Hope’s is the best long-term investment both environmentally and financially.
Excellence you should expect
PROVEN PERFORMANCE
Hope’s custom crafted windows and doors set the standard for performance excellence. Hope’s prides itself on its long-standing commitment to testing and certification, subjecting its products to more third-party testing and certifications than any other bronze window and door manufacturer. The process of exceeding both rigorous, independent testing and custom expectations begins with the engineering and design of Hope’s products – expertise derived from more than 100 years of experience.
