In our apartments or houses we’ve all got beds, couches, tables and chairs, and our choices of these is what gives our places their style. There are a myriad of designers producing thousands of varieties of furniture. But one item in our homes we probably never give much thought to is the doors we use to pass from room to room.

Perhaps in future years, designers and companies will realize that in neglecting doors, they’ve been squandering a prime opportunity to design a significant part of the home experience; after all, we pass through doors dozens of times a day.

One company that is paying attention to portals is Italian home furnishings company Albed. Their new line of Karim-Rashid designed doors are striking and unusual, to say the least–when I first saw the photos it wasn’t obvious to me that I was looking at doors at all. “Where the heck’s the knob?” I thought.

It might take you a second to notice a door with unusual trim or a unique doorknob, but these doors hit you right away. As you can see, the Ring model gets rid of the doorknob altogether, replacing it with what they’re calling a “volcano;” you stick your hand into the hole in this protuberance and encounter a hidden metal ring, which you pull to activate the door mechanism. (Could be fun depending on who comes to visit–my parents have trouble with most of my appliances, so I’d love to see them try to work this one out.)

The Blow model also goes knob-less, but with this one the entire edge of the door visually peels off and warps inward, revealing a hidden, lacquered groove with a pressable latch at the apex of the curve; pressing this releases the mechanism.

By getting rid of the doorknob and forcing (or seducing) your brain into considering, if only for a second, how you’re going to engage with this curvy form in order to open it, Rashid’s designs cleverly add another moment of aesthetic appreciation to your day.

“[The collection arose from the] idea of eliminating the presence of a handle,” explains Rashid. “These doors differ from the traditional concept and thus are focused on the future.” With any luck, these designs will open doors both literally and figuratively.