Unaged hardware: Letting brass age naturally

A close-up of a set of unlacquered brass hardware. Door handles, cabinet pulls, faucets, and hooks are all solid brass, bright gold when new, but because the surface is not coated with clear lacquer, the metal directly contacts air and hands, naturally changing with use: frequently gripped areas are polished bright and reddish, less touched recesses oxidize to deep brown, and the base of the sink faucet shows a faint green. Therefore, each piece of hardware has a different shade and continues to change. The design is simple geometric—round rods, square rods, or simple curves, without carving. This is completely different from artificially aged uniform antique finishes. Avoid: using artificially aged uniform antique paint, depicting brass as new and uniformly bright gold, adding carvings and classical decorations, mixing with other metal colors.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組未上保護漆的黃銅五金近景。門把、櫃體拉手、龍頭與掛勾全部是實心的黃銅,出廠時是明亮的金色,但因為表面沒有上透明漆,金屬直接與空氣和手接觸,經過使用後自然產生變化:常被握住的位置磨得光亮偏紅、少被觸碰的凹處氧化成深褐、水槽龍頭的底部出現淺淺的綠色。因此每一件五金的顏色深淺都不一樣,而且會持續改變。造型是簡潔的幾何——圓桿、方桿或簡單的曲線,沒有雕花。這與人工做舊的均勻仿古塗裝完全不同。避免:使用人工做舊的均勻仿古漆、把黃銅畫成全新一致的亮金、加入雕花與古典裝飾、混用其他金屬色。