The Hardware Trends |
Author： Shenzhen Innovation Hardware Co., Ltd. Time： 2011-07-18 [Print] |
The Hardware Trends
The hardware designs have strong influence on our perceptions of the space. The architect and designer’s selection, application and specification of door hardware will make a strong contribution to the project’s success.
Most recently, there is a trend in high-end hardware toward distinctive design, which combines highlighting the natural properties of the brass or bronze from which hardware is cast, with its sculpture sense and precision-engineered properties.
As a definer of residential design status, hardware has become a deeply entrenched value. Over the past 20 years, people begin to devote more time and money to transform their home into showplaces of their design and style. Propelled by this increasing demand, hardware manufacturers began producing door hardware and accessories to meet the needs of architects, designers, and sophisticated homeowners to complement the aesthetics of their design choices. Some manufacturers have responded by combining traditional techniques, such as investment, and sand casting, with state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment to produce the detail and quality of precisely engineered hardware with a traditional and natural look and feel.
The architectural style choices available today cover a broad spectrum, spanning from modern and post-modern to period, rustic, and traditional. Each style and design requires details that work together to provide a harmonious appearance. More natural and organic products, like wood and stone, are being integrated as major design elements into residential, commercial, and hospitality projects.Hardware, in turn, needs to reflect the natural properties of these materials. This design sympathy with natural products has trended hardware away from manufactured, finished appearances toward living finishes like bronze and patinas, which change naturally over time.
Designers have begun to reflect the living and changing aspects of materials in their designs. Increasingly, security hardware and devices are being adapted to many different applications. This high technology trend, combining traditional latch and lock mechanisms with IT systems, represents a design and coordination challenge for both architects and manufacturers. |
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