Honesty of Materials: Not Pretending

An early modernist interior where all materials appear in their natural state. Steel tubes are chrome-plated or painted in metallic colors, leather is leather, glass is transparent, and plywood reveals its laminated cross-section. No material imitates another: there is no veneer mimicking wood grain, no paint mimicking stone, no fake decorative surfaces. The connections are also visible: screws, rivets, and weld points. Avoid: using veneers that imitate wood or stone, hiding joints, applying wood grain finishes to metal, using decorative cladding materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一個材料都以本色出現的早期現代主義室內。鋼管是鍍鉻或烤漆的金屬色、皮革是皮革、玻璃是透明的、合板露出層積的斷面。沒有任何一種材料在模仿另一種:沒有仿木紋的貼皮、沒有仿石的塗料、沒有假的裝飾面。連接的方式也看得見:螺絲、鉚釘與焊點。避免:使用仿木與仿石的貼面、把接合處隱藏起來、在金屬上做出木紋的塗裝、使用裝飾性的包覆材。