Designers, architects and steel fabricators look to steel not just for strength, but for character, precision and sculptural elegance. From hip new restaurants and private houses through to headquarters buildings of major national and international companies, metalwork in steel is being used to design a fitting and beautiful solution to the client’s needs.

In this article, we explore the latest trends in steel-based interior design and why NW Metal Sections are an essential part of any installation in today’s marketplace.

Why Steel and Metalwork Define Modern Interior Design

Steel has an unparalleled aesthetic appeal over any other material. It can be both strong and delicate, both harsh industrial or softened, refined and polished. It is long-lasting and can be used with wooden and stone, or glass elements to make ultra-modern composite designs. As discerning clients opt for a more individual contribution, anything crafted in metal becomes an essential and useful versatile medium to deliver that unique vision.

7 Ways Bespoke Metalwork Is Used to Transform Bespoke Interior Spaces

Here is the listicle on how steel is re-imagined today, with link placement being made a condition of this use.

1. Steel Screens and Partitions Personalised for the Space

Steel screening and Crittall-style steel-framed glass partitions create an elegant and gracious divide without compromising volume in the modern urban apartment or office.

2. Architectural Steel Staircases That Enhance Space & Depth

A new generation only uses bespoke metal staircases when inherited metal ones are not to be found and treated as salvageable. These features are now seen as a central sculptural focal part of the design statement of any particular two-storey interior space.

3. Fitted Steel Shelving and Built-In Cupboard Solutions

There are solutions with steel shelving that few realise are possible. Strong and thin steel shelving and space-saving solutions that are at once near impossible to see, it is so subtle.

4. Deep and Thin Profiles for Exacting Detailing

This can only be done in specialist steel sections of the kind provided by NW Section; this kind of detailing is virtually impossible to create.

5. Custom Metal Furniture with a Polished Finish

Console and table frames, bed frames and cabinet frames too. All of these items bring a sense of hand-finish to any interior. Utilising a more finely finished, most modern polished steel finish judiciously in any situation.

6. Laser Cut Steel Screens and Decorative Panels

Laser cut applications in steel offer beautiful texture, effects of light and depth through a repeating patterned steel in sheets, screens or panels. Ornamental detail can be added to ceilings or anywhere to create a sense of gravitas whilst retaining structural efficiency as a steel backup.

7. Steel Artisan Kitchens

Modern polished stainless steel cladding and worktops have revolutionised the outlook of kitchens and serve-over food and drink areas. Unlike flimsy composite materials, steel has the added advantage of enhancing the sense of professionalism throughout use.

Another New Approach to Craftsmanship

As steel matures from a functional material to a fine architectural element, custom architectural metalwork products have emerged as the new determinant of sophisticated interior design. By creating exacting fabrications, custom shapes, and utilising the correct partners, there is a point of satisfaction where the interior is both practically and chronologically ageless.