Pivot doors for front door

I have been drawn to pivot doors since I saw pictures (in Dwell) from an Icelandic architect's own house. Tom Kundig also uses the pivot style door extensively (and they have some pretty cool pivot walls/doors in the studio in Seattle). I find the offset axis pivot particular interesting. One of the impressive things with the pivot principle is that an extremely heavy door can be opened with ease. But is is hard to find pivot doors.

An Australian door company carries a product series called Corinthian, that sports a kind-of pivot, but not nearly as offset I had in mind.

Then there are pivot doors with very rustic stiles, like Black Canyon doors. Here is a picture of one of their doors.

Very decorative, kind-of ethnic styled pivots are available from several South African manufacturer - funny that they are so prominently represented here. Examples are Moongard (bit too ornamental for my taste) and K. Parker (too boring).


The only modern style US manufacture I found was Megawood. They only describe a centered pivot, but may be able to do an asymmetrical as well.