Bold as brass: how to put the shine back into modern interiors | News | Architonic

Along with natural, simple materials, the colours chosen to blend with brass can have a powerful impact on the interior’s mood. Warm greys and cool, deep oceanic colours like turquoise greens and any shade of blue provide a stunning backdrop for brass accents. In the Blau restaurant in Stuttgart, Germany, for example, square frameless blocks of deep blue and grey are divided by brass-coloured, doorways while the material palette again looks to warm amber-coloured leather seating and green marble tabletops.

A more dramatic contrast can be drawn, however, by keeping the colour scheme in check. Tom Dixon’s Scoop chair, for example, is available in the designer’s identifiable range of monochrome tones and metal accents of copper and chrome. But the combination that really brings the chair to life adds polished brass legs to a dark black seat.