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housing, and lofts spaces,
unused warehouses, garages
and dilapidated factories were
quickly being purchased and
transformed into stylish urban
dwellings. Resplendent with
high ceilings, exposed brick
walls and open ductwork, the
buildings encompassed large
rooms that often served multiple
functions, such as a kitchen,
dining, living and sleeping
area all blended into one. As a
result, open plan living became
a trademark of this style and
provided the perfect canvas
to experiment with simple
shapes and raw materials like
galvanised steel, glass and
Although it is difficult to pinpoint reclaimed wood, breathing
an exact origin, industrial chic is clean and unflinching realism
thought to have properly arrived into previously unloved spaces.
in trendy urban metropolises
like New York and London Having successfully made
at a time when the property its way into the homes of
market was particularly volatile. both urban dwellers and
Continuously
fluctuating suburbanites, today you are as
house prices created a rising likely to find elements of the style
demand for cheaper alternative within the walls of a multimillion-

ewind a couple of
decades and the concept
of industrial chic was
pretty much non-existent
– it wasn’t even a style, but rather
a result of lower class workers
functional lifestyle. Yet, over the
years, artists like Andy Warhol,
interior designers and on trend
consumers have begun to
appreciate its lack of pretension
and timeless, neutral and simply
striking visual. Created by
marrying functional m ]\