The Types Of Materials of The Mid Century Design The use of nature's materials as wood, stone and marble stood out the mid century interior decor: furniture, surfaces, ceilings and rooms accessories.
Using them, the architects could pleasantly connect the indoors with the outdoor.
Stone and marble floors were great to unify -both essentially and in practice- living rooms with terraces and if polished perhaps even could reflect the exterior landscape.
The coarse irregular surface area of the natural flagstone that have been used for the flooring acted additionally as a membrane for the sleek flagstones used to line the fire place.
The flue was basically made within the cross wall and hidden, using only the aperture to show that it was a hearth.
Throughout the vast wide variety of woods existing available to the designers, Teak wood was basically one of the most appreciate and employed specially by the Scandinavian designers.
Teak wood is a kind of wood with sensational qualities originally from Asia.
It was previously in use in Denmark since the 20s to become the trademark of Danish design and style in the fifties.
The architects were aware of its robustness and strength, 3 very important properties for a good pieces of furniture as well.
A teak home furniture can last for decades in a very good state and of course the possibility of a longer existence and use is the most interesting and gratifying prospect for any kind of artist as well as designers.
Teak wood was probably the most popular material within a lot of great mid century designers and architects.
Finn Juhl, for example, used it for many of his masterpieces so the NV-45, NV 48 and the Chieftain seats as sideboards, shelving units and wooden cupboards.
Because of his ductility it was the perfect material for his natural and 'floating' forms.
But Teak wood has been utilized not only for home furniture, in a mid century home was common to see teak wood wall surfaces, doors and even lights.
As I wrote before, Teak wood is a formidable long lasting type of wood and if you buy a teak furniture you really have a very good probability of getting a remarkable piece, but in particular for the pieces spotted in flea markets and thrift stores there are always a few damage or little imperfection that spoils their attraction a bit.
But renovate vintage wood is a lot easier than you can imagine! Here is my personal way -that always works- to renovate it.
The 4 Steps Guide To Renovate your Damaged Mid Century Furniture What do you need? Oil soap Teak oil or Danish oil Wax Rags (Lint free) Ultra fine sand paper Elbow grease;) You can get very easily all these products in the local hardware retailer.
The 4 Steps: 1.
Sand the damaged areas with a fine sand paper in the direction of the grain 2.
After sanding, spread everything down with the oil soap to clean off the dust and residual possible old wax 3.
Using the Teak Oil or Danish Oil, wet a rag and apply the entire piece.
Wait ten/fifteen minutes and with a clean rag dry off the surplus oil.
Depending on how dry the wood was you can repeat this step two or three times 4.
After the oil is wholly absorbed and the surface is dry to the touch, you have to rub down everything with the wax.
Let it dry for a second time and your mid century piece will be ready to be part of your mid century modern house!