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| Family | Patinated | Patinated | Coated | Polished |
| How it looks | Green, deep blue, algae, deep red, burnished, rustic, deep white and a range of blacks — colour grown in the metal, not painted on. | Chemically aged and then selectively relieved, so highlights and recesses read differently — antique brass, oxidised bronze, darkened copper — with the character of a piece that has already had a life. | One tone fading into another across a panel — brass into bronze, gold into gun metal, warm into dark — graded by hand so that the transition has no step. | A fine unidirectional grain. |
| Metals | Copper, brass, bronze, zinc | Brass, copper, bronze | Stainless steel, brass, aluminium | Stainless steel, brass, aluminium |
| Where it suits | Indoors and outdoors | Indoors | Indoors | Indoors and outdoors |
| Worth knowing | A living finish. | A living finish: it will keep ageing, and the places people touch will develop their own highlights. | A gradient that runs across several panels is set out as one drawing and graded as one batch, so that it continues across the joints. | A scratch across the grain is visible from a distance. |
| Looking after it | Nothing abrasive, ever. | Dust only, or a barely damp cloth. | Wipe with a soft damp cloth. | Wipe along the grain, never across it, with a mild detergent and a soft cloth. |
| Next step | Ask for a sample | Ask for a sample | Ask for a sample | Ask for a sample |
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