Commercial Steel Windows & Doors

Built with Ottostumm, Jansen and PINKYS Air Series steel profiles. For hospitality, corporate, retail, institutional and multifamily projects.

Every PINKYS Studio Steel window and door is drawn and built to the project, from CAD through finished product, including the commercial door hardware it requires. Custom does not mean small: production scales to the order, so a single bespoke entrance and a several-hundred-unit schedule run through the same process.
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Studio Steel builds across commercial sectors, each with its own demands on an opening: high-cycle doors in hospitality, clear storefront glazing in retail, and like-for-like replacement in landmark buildings. Every opening is drafted to the project and approved before fabrication.

Luxury Hospitality

Restaurants, hotels and boutique bars. Openings here cycle constantly and take impact from carts, luggage and crowds, while meeting accessibility and egress requirements without compromising design intent.

PINKYS redesigned every steel window and door at Hideaway at Suite X, Dr. Woo's private studio inside Hollywood's Roosevelt Hotel, finished in black against the room's antiques.

Retail and Storefronts

Cafés, boutiques and street-level storefronts, where the frame defines the business from the sidewalk and keeps sightlines into the space clear. Studio Steel builds steel storefront and curtain wall assemblies for these applications.

Historic Preservation

Landmark and civic buildings under local preservation review, where replacements must match the originals in profile, proportion and finish. At Signal Hill City Hall, a 1934 civic landmark, PINKYS replaced the windows in hot-rolled Ottostumm W40 to keep the building's original character intact. See Historic Steel Windows & Doors for the standards, documentation and profile match.
Signal Hill Windows by PINKYS

Studio Steel is built in three constructions, and the choice usually follows the opening's size and its energy requirements. 

  • Tubular steel (PINKYS Air Series) A hollow section that matches solid steel's structural performance with less material, carrying the largest openings at lower weight.
  • Hot-rolled solid steel Formed hot, as early twentieth-century windows were, for the finest profiles and an authentic period surface. Suited to interiors, historic work and openings outside the energy code.
  • Thermally broken steel A cold-formed section with an insulating break between the interior and exterior faces, for conditioned exteriors under an energy code.

The table below compares them by construction, opening size, thermal break and tested performance.

AttributeAir SeriesOttostumm W20 and W40Ottostumm W50 TB and Jansen Janisol Arte 2.0
ConstructionTubular steel, foam-insulatedHot-rolled solid steelThermally broken, cold-formed
Opening sizeLargest, taller and wider than solid steel allowsMore limited by weight and materialMid range
Thermal breakNoneNoneYes
Tested performanceFlorida Product Approval for impact on select productsNoneNFRC certified

The right system depends on the openings, the energy compliance path and the design intent, and many commercial projects combine more than one. Your PINKYS sales representative can walk through the options against the drawings.

For full specification, see Steel Profile Systems, Air Series, and Thermal Break Technology. For impact ratings see HVHZ-approved Steel Doors and Windows.

Bronze and Stainless Steel systems may be available on request if the project demands it. Reach out to the Studio Steel team to inquire.

PINKYS works with the hardware commercial openings typically require, including:

• Storefront locks
• Panic hardware and exit devices
• Door closers

Select hardware is available through PINKYS, and most hardware provided by the project can be accommodated. Custom hardware can extend lead time.

Signal Hill Windows by PINKYS

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Share the opening dimensions, configuration, and glazing requirements. PINKYS produces architecturally detailed CAD drawings and works through the specification one on one. The PINKYS Studio Steel team handles the rest.

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Codes, Compliance & Performance

RequirementPINKYS Studio Steel
AccessibilityADA governs threshold height, clear opening width and hardware operating force at commercial entrances. Doors are built to the project’s requirements, confirmed at the CAD drawing stage.
EnergyOttostumm W50 TB, NFRC certified as low as U-0.21 (fixed) and U-0.31 (casement). Product data supplied for energy modelers. See NFRC Ratings.
GlazingSingle, dual, dual with laminated lite, and triple pane. Tempered as standard; low-E coatings and impact glazing on approved products. See Glass Options.
FinishEight-stage coating system on every unit, no reduced finish tier. Paint and color, including custom, quoted per project. See Finishes & Paint Systems.

Working With Studio Steel

PINKYS has manufactured steel and iron doors and windows since 1978 and is run by the second generation of the founding family. Drafting, warehousing and distribution are managed from Vernon, California, so one team carries a commercial project from first drawings to delivery.

Design & Drawings

The Studio Steel team joins during design, reviews intent against what each system can carry, and produces architecturally detailed CAD drawings for every opening. Drawings run through a formal submittal, issued for review, revised against comments and reissued approved for fabrication. Working in Revit or another format? Ask the team what can be supplied.
Ottostumm w40 CAD

Manufacturing & Delivery

Production is scaled for large-format square footage and units repeating at quantity, and takes 14 to 16 weeks from approved shop drawings. Shipping follows, typically about two weeks and up to three to the East Coast. PINKYS runs its own trucks and uses flatbed carriers for third-party freight, so steel arrives on site the way it left the factory.
Pinkys los angeles showroom with steel double doors and top windows

Installation Support

PINKYS does not install, but provides thorough installation guidance in English and Spanish. A dedicated support team works with the installing contractor from delivery through completion.

Forbes profiled PINKYS in "Meet Pinkys, The LA Iron And Steel Brand Modernizing American Homes." Wallpaper* credited PINKYS with the custom door in Ryan Murphy's private office. Modern Luxury Interiors named PINKYS Best Steel Doors & Windows in its Best of Design awards, and Interior Design featured the company in its Fall Market Tabloid, naming Dion Der and Arin Der as second-generation co-owners.

See the Press page for full coverage.

Frequently Asked Questions

That depends on the openings, the energy compliance path and the design intent, and many commercial projects use more than one system. Studio Steel offers tubular steel in the PINKYS Air Series, hot-rolled Ottostumm W20 and W40, and thermally broken Ottostumm W50 TB and Jansen Janisol Arte 2.0. Your PINKYS sales representative can work through the options against the drawings.

Architecturally detailed shop drawings for every opening, issued for review, revised against comments and reissued approved for fabrication, along with product data, profile documentation, the finish specification and physical finish samples. NFRC data is supplied for thermally broken systems in the format energy modelers need.

Per project, from the drawings, since every opening is drafted individually. The profile system, glazing build-up, opening sizes and configurations, the fixed-to-operable ratio, finish and the degree of repetition across the schedule all move the total. Your PINKYS sales representative can price a project from the drawings.

Production takes 14 to 16 weeks from approved shop drawings, with drafting and submittal review ahead of that. Shipping follows, typically about two weeks and up to three to the East Coast.

Yes. Production is scaled for large-format square footage and units repeating at quantity, from multifamily and condominium projects to schools and civic buildings. A several-hundred-unit schedule runs through the same drafting and submittal process as a single opening.

Yes. PINKYS supplies commercial door hardware with its steel doors, including storefront locks, panic hardware and exit devices, door closers and automatic operators. Hardware is specified with the door, with every location shown on the shop drawings, and custom hardware can extend lead time.

Yes. Studio Steel doors are made to order, so threshold height, clear opening width and hardware operating force can be built to a project's accessibility requirements, and panic hardware and exit devices are available for egress doors. The Studio Steel team confirms each requirement at the CAD drawing stage.

Thermally broken Ottostumm W50 TB is NFRC certified at a whole-unit U-factor as low as 0.21 for fixed windows and 0.31 for casements. Code compliance, whether under Title 24 in California or the IECC or ASHRAE 90.1 elsewhere, is confirmed for the project by its energy consultant. Hot-rolled and Air Series systems carry no thermal break and suit openings outside the energy code.

Select PINKYS steel windows and doors hold Florida Product Approval for large and small missile impact, and additional approvals are in progress. Ask your PINKYS sales representative which products carry approval for the application. See HVHZ-Approved Steel Doors & Windows.

Studio Steel assemblies are fabricated to the loads and anchoring details specified by the project's engineer of record, rather than to a published design pressure rating. Products with Florida Product Approval carry the design pressures listed in their approvals.

Yes. Studio Steel builds steel-framed glass partitions, conference room enclosures and main entrances for offices, drafted to the floor plan. For Ryan Murphy Productions' Hollywood headquarters, PINKYS supplied the custom door to Murphy's private office. See Custom Manufactured Wall Partitions.

PINKYS does not install, but provides thorough installation guidance in English and Spanish, and a dedicated support team for the installing contractor, from delivery through completion.
Thermally broken steel profiles used in premium architectural steel door and window systems
steel windows and doors historic maker

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Share the opening dimensions, configuration, and glazing requirements. PINKYS produces architecturally detailed CAD drawings and works through the specification one on one. The PINKYS Studio Steel team handles the rest.

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