Matte Black / Polished Nickel Cabinet Hardware

Polished nickel hardware paired with a matte black pull

Schaub's Foncé pulls cap a flat black bar with polished nickel at each end, so the shine sits only at the fingertips, not across the whole grip. Foncé itself translates from French as dark, naming the black bar that anchors every version of this pull no matter which stem color rides at the ends. Nothing here is adjustable, so a replacement job only goes smoothly when the old holes already fall on one of these fixed spacings.

Sizing the Foncé run

Bar pulls span 4 through 12, and the largest measurement carries over to a matching appliance pull plus a double-sided version built for refrigerator and freezer panels mounted on two-sided islands. A 2-inch T-knob covers doors where anything longer would crowd the space, carrying the black-and-nickel pairing onto a single door panel at a much smaller scale. Every length keeps the same proportion of black to nickel, so a shorter pull doesn't lose its accent, the nickel tips just sit closer together, still readable from across the kitchen even on the smallest drawer.

Why a small accent changes the read

Because nickel only shows at the ends, the pull reads as mostly black with hardware trim rather than a genuine two-tone piece, catching window light or under-cabinet lighting without pulling focus from a full nickel faucet or fixture nearby. It's a subtle enough gesture to bridge a kitchen where the plumbing fixtures are nickel but the cabinets are meant to stay dark, letting one hardware line serve both without forcing a compromise on either metal.

Other directions to consider

Straight nickel covers styles well past this one bar shape, and chrome sits close in tone if something brighter and noticeably cooler suits the room better than a muted accent would.