Mirror-polished stainless cladding over a full aluminium door frame, with pulls and sidelites to match. Now a catalogue product from the major US storefront suppliers — and available for your New York front.
Looking for a storefront replacement with a polished-chrome look people remember? Mirror-finish stainless cladding over a full aluminium door frame is now a catalogue product from the major US storefront suppliers, and we can get it for a New York front — door, frame, sidelites and pulls in one finish.
A standard thermally broken or non-thermal aluminium storefront door and frame, wrapped at the factory in a formed stainless steel skin — polished to a mirror, brushed, or in a PVD colour such as bronze or black — so the whole entrance reads as solid stainless. The aluminium does the structural work and carries the closers and locks as usual; the cladding is what you see and touch. Because the skin is stainless rather than a chrome plating, it takes the weather, the salt and the hand traffic of a Manhattan sidewalk without pitting, and a scratch is polished out rather than replated. Pulls, push bars and kick plates come in the same finish, and the same cladding can run across the sidelites and transom so the entrance is one material from the floor up.
Jewellery, cosmetics and fashion fronts, hotel and residential lobbies, galleries, restaurant entrances where the door is part of the brand, and anywhere a standard black or clear-anodised storefront would be forgettable. It suits the Art Deco and Moderne buildings along Manhattan’s avenues, where polished metal storefronts were the original condition, and it makes a small front on a Brooklyn commercial strip look considerably more expensive than it was. On a landmarked commercial facade, a polished-metal storefront is often closer to what the Commission wants back than a dark anodised one.
It is heavier than a plain aluminium door, so closers and pivots are sized for it. Mirror finish shows fingerprints and wants a maintenance routine — a daily wipe on a busy door; brushed finishes hide more. Lead time is longer than a stock storefront door because the cladding is formed to order, and the glass, door hardware and threshold all need to be chosen with the finish in mind so nothing on the entrance is a different silver. We draw the whole entrance — door, frame, sidelites, transom, pulls, kick plates, threshold — as one package with one supplier so the finishes match.
We work with the major US storefront and entrance suppliers and can source clad full-frame doors, matching pulls and hardware, and the glass to go in them, and install them as part of a storefront replacement or a new front. The commercial doors page covers stile widths, closers and code; the storefront doors page covers the systems we build the rest of the front from.
An aluminium storefront door and frame wrapped at the factory in a formed stainless steel skin — mirror-polished, brushed or PVD-coloured — so the entrance reads as solid stainless while the aluminium carries the hardware.
Yes: stainless takes weather, salt and hand traffic without pitting, and scratches are polished out rather than replated. Mirror finish shows fingerprints and wants a daily wipe on a busy door; brushed hides more.
Yes. The same cladding runs across the sidelites and transom, and pulls, push bars and kick plates come in the same finish so the whole entrance is one material.
Yes. We source them from the major US storefront suppliers, draw the entrance as one package so the finishes match, and install them as part of a storefront replacement or a new front across NYC, Long Island and New Jersey.
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About this page. Written by Alex GC Inc. d/b/a Alex Glass Construction and reviewed before publication by Aleksandr Chernovolenko, Managing Partner, with our design and estimating lead and a field foreman. Our foremen hold the NYC DOB Site Safety Training supervisor card and our crews the 40-hour worker card; we are certified to fabricate, install and service Alutech and Everest aluminum systems. Facts are drawn from our own projects, manufacturer test data and the applicable codes; where we are giving an opinion, we say so. Last reviewed September 2026. Credentials
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