Idea → Material
A kitchen island designed as a focal object, with a rural French reference that reads through warmth and restraint. The surface is brass, chosen for its ability to carry depth, brushing direction, and a measured darkening without losing clarity.
Process → Effect
The finish is built through a controlled blackening and brushing sequence, so the island holds one coherent tone across planes and edges. The intent is a calm, continuous read, with minimal visual interruption where seams or folds would normally appear.
French Brass Kitchen is located in Jerusalem. The project type is a kitchen, with the island treated as the central feature element. The design intent is a rural French reference expressed through brass, with a restrained darkened tone and a calm, continuous read across the volume. The finished scope includes MetaliQ Brass. The substrate is MDF. The technologies used are cloudy blackending.
The island is treated as a single metal volume, not a set of assembled faces. Brushing direction is kept disciplined, so reflections stay consistent as you move around the piece. Under warm interior light, the surface reads quieter, with depth concentrated in the darker fields rather than in high sheen highlights.
Buildability matters here. The finish strategy is chosen to reduce the visual penalties of fabrication, especially at transitions where joints, folds, or bends would interrupt the grain. The result is a calmer composition, where the brass supports the architecture instead of competing with it.
Share your project scope, geometry, and the tone you want to achieve. We can prepare samples and support the specification workflow through production alignment.
