After the Second World War in the United States, to face economic problems that had gripped the world, in New York it was decided to use abandoned spaces such as factories, to be furnished directly; obviously, the great protagonist in all this was metal, as well as in a broad sense the concept of spatial organization echoing industrial environments. There are two #planium metals best suited to meet the aesthetic requirements of this style, but declined in different forms. Steel first, both in Stainless Steel but, above all, in the Stainless Concrete version; in fact, this type of steel has a color that represents the industrial style to the maximum degree, evoking for certain chromatic reflections a real industrial context of a workshop and is the most suitable to be laid on the floor to evoke it ...
Also Oxidized Steel, which takes on a particular apparently warm and brown color (in which cold "reminiscences" can be glimpsed)
Finally, Copper, very suitable for kitchens for a retro sense that emanates and also for its ancient color, rusticate, which can "break" the "silver" monotony of the Industrial Style, without denaturing it. On the other hand, its color also refers to the concept of oxidation and it should not be forgotten that the Industrial style also has this concept of "past" and "lived", and sometimes also makes use of pipes ...
The industrial style, which actually arrived in Europe decades later, towards the 80s, has recently returned to fashion not only because vintage has become a real cult practice, but also for economic reasons, for the ease of convert former industrial spaces into homes or public places, restaurants ...
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