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	Mild Steel	Copper
Character	Strong, direct, unapologetically structural.	Soft, ductile, and never quite finished changing.
How it looks	Matt grey raw; most often blackened, painted or powder-coated.	Bright pink-orange when new, moving through browns to deep near-black, or driven deliberately to green and blue verdigris.
Where we use it	Structural frames, canopies and portals Blackened steel screens and partitions Steel-and-glass doors and windows Balustrades and staircase structure Gates and boundary treatments	Facade cladding and shingle systems Hand-beaten sculpture and wall art Ceiling baffles and coves Feature doors and entrance panels Boundary wall and exterior treatments
Outdoors	Used externally throughout, always with a coating system appropriate to the exposure.	One of the classic exterior metals.
Finishes	4: brushed & satin, special texture, distressed, pvd & coatings	11: mirror, brushed & satin, hammered, hand-beaten, embossed, special texture, special effects, antique…
In short	The metal behind the metal.	The most workable metal on the floor and the most unpredictable in service — which is exactly why it is used where character matters more than uniformity.
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