Venetian Plaster, Birmingham
Real metal powder, applied by hand, then burnished, patinated or deliberately rusted. A surface, not a paint effect.
Liquid metal is genuine metal — bronze, brass, copper, iron — ground fine and suspended in a binder, applied by hand and then treated. Burnished it comes up bright. Patinated it goes green or blue. Iron can be oxidised on purpose so the wall rusts in a controlled way. Because it is real metal, it behaves like metal: it catches light along a raised edge and goes dark in the hollows.
The metallic and pearlescent products we use come from Zavoré.
It belongs where one object has to hold a room: a bar front, a back bar, a reception desk, a cinema wall, a fireplace, a lift lobby. It is a statement finish and it does not want company — one metal surface in a room reads as luxury, three reads as a showroom.
Base coat, then the metal applied in one or two passes and worked while it is open. Then the treatment: burnish, patina or oxidise. Patination is a chemical reaction and it keeps developing for a while, so we agree with you where in that process it should be stopped and sealed.
Our own projects, photographed on site. Not every photograph on this page is this finish — the gallery is grouped by project and says which is which.
Our studio is in Birmingham. These are the cities we are asked for this in most often, and each has its own page.
A photograph and a rough size is enough to begin. You will have next steps within one working day, and a sample panel made in your finish before anything is agreed.
Send us a photograph of the wall and a rough size. We will tell you what it needs and roughly what it costs.
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