33 Finishes
The level of detail on the final surfaces or surface types of a design project.
Reference
*Mohsen Mostafavi, David Leatherbarrow, On Weathering The Life of Buildings in Time (MIT Press, 1993).
Finishes are everywhere in an interior—whether it is the touch of a door upon entering a room, the softness of a carpet underfoot, or the glare of a mirror in the daylight. We experience and determine the appropriate finishes for a design through our senses of touch, vision, hearing, and smell, and each layers upon the last to create our experience of a space.
Finishes are also temporal, in that they are affected by wear and tear, and use over time—metallic elements gain patina, railings register ...
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