If you’d like to know which materials to combine to enhance this steel’s aesthetics, you are reading the right article. Corten steel in all its shades can be combined with cement, stone and wood, since its suitability for design requirements and concepts that require the mixing of different materials that give exclusivity to housing solutions and more.

Below can be found examples of some of our products that combine Corten, wood and stone.

The Spica table takes its name from the homonymous star which is among the brightest ones in the sky. The tabletop proposes the radiant movement of the light beams through the natural larch wood segments that are arranged in a radial pattern. The waxed Corten dodecahedron base links the segmented wooden top creating a decisive chromatic contrast, resulting elegant and typically made in Italy.

The Cortese stool is another example that proposes a mixture of materials. As a matter of facts, it combines Corten steel with Lecce stone, the latter being exceptionally ductile and light. The seat, which recalls the traditional woven straw seats, is transposed instead into the world of stone processing. This variation of material, together with the geometric cuts on the burnished plate, make the seat original. Finally, the lower shelf not only can be used as a footrest, but it can also become a support surface for personal items during pleasant breaks at the bar with friends.

After showing you how steel can be associated with other materials of different nature, it needs to be stressed how much this metal is used in the realization of coatings and casings for accommodation facilities or bars. In contemporary architecture, Corten steel is mainly used as a coating, using that "formal language" that once belonged to steel but using only its ornamental and sense characteristics. It could therefore be defined today as a "transitional" phase for the use of Corten steel as it was in the past for iron. It should be noted, however, that this material has also "abstract" capabilities that make it unique.

Corten steel quickly displays the changes the effects that other materials produce only after a very long time, guaranteeing both durability and stability. In conclusion, this material can offer an extreme innate elegance which is able to respond to the contemporary need to characterize the spaces in a functional way but at the same time with a high aesthetic value.