Style and color are important factors in decorating a room and choosing furniture. There are many other important elements too, included the element of scale. Proper use of scale can make your home feel comfortable and put together. Pieces of furniture that might not have worked well together will fit in perfectly when you take scale into consideration.

While there is no magic rule for the size of furniture you need, it’s best to use larger furniture for areas that are the focal point and smaller pieces for accessories. A large, elaborate bed frame will create a focal point in the bedroom, while a small side table will add a touch of elegance without overwhelming the room.

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Tubular metal furniture began in 1909 with an Italian manufacturing company by the name of Dalmine. They began making seamless steel tubes for commercial use. The modernist designers of the time were followers of the Bauhaus teachings and focused on “Design for the masses”.

In 1914 a company in Japan also began manufacturing seamless steel tubes, and in 1954 two companies opened for business in Latin America. The metal furniture trend even spread to America where companies such as Chicago and Grand Rapids Co. of Michigan began producing tubular metal furniture.Tubular metal spread through out the world quickly during the first half of the 20th century.

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In a day when customer service seems to have gone out the window and pride in workmanship is slipping; it is refreshing to find a company comitted to the highest standards of both…customer service and pride in their product.

Tom Faulkner provides a handmade product of steel and clear glass that looks like something from the sci-fi movies but is available now! These furniture pieces slip easily into your contemporary or traditional deco while providing years of use. Tom’s craftsmen take steel which can be “heated, beaten, rolled, cut and welded” into smooth shapes, architectural simplicity and funky forms. Don’t allow “steel furniture” to turn you away. The charm of the workmanship and the uniqueness of each piece will appear to be an investment rather than a necessity.

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Iron has been mined from the earth for centuries, and was transformed in to steel hundreds of years ago. I discovered it in 1993 during a search for new ways to support some table tops I had designed.  I approached a small forge in Wiltshire to make some simple metal bases for me and was instantly captivated by its strength and versatility of steel - by its malleability and workability. It is an elemental, earthy and honest material, and it can be heated, beaten, rolled, cut and welded into the smallest most intricate shapes or the biggest and boldest forms. From a manufacturing point of view it is very attractive in that it does not split and it does not warp.

Metal furniture

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