The Only Shine: A Touch of Oxidized Brass

A touch of warm metal light. Oxidized brass, dark gold with a brownish tint, appears in very small areas: a doorknob, a thin line embedded in a wood seam, the base of a lamp, a tray. It is the only thing in the entire space that reflects light, thus creating a few faint bright spots in the dark. The total area is less than one percent of the picture. Avoid: using shiny plated gold, allowing the brass area to expand to panels and finishes, using more than one type of metal simultaneously, using brass on large pieces of furniture.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一點金屬的暖光。氧化成暗金帶褐的黃銅出現在極小的面積上:門把、一道嵌在木縫裡的細線、燈具的底座、一個托盤。它是整個空間裡唯一會把光反射回來的東西,因此在暗處會形成幾個微弱的亮點。總面積不到畫面的百分之一。避免:使用亮面電鍍的金色、讓黃銅的面積擴大到板材與飾面、同時使用兩種以上的金屬、把黃銅用在大件家具上。