5 Furnishings With Eye-Catching Metallic Finishes

No longer limited to skulking around on a bar cart, metallic finishes like aluminum and brass are in the midst of a dazzling comeback. From sinuous lounge chairs to sculptural lighting, these pieces are like jewels for the home: polished, reflective, and designed to catch the light.

Interconnect Candle Holder, Audo Copenhagen

Candlesticks were once status symbols for the glitterati. (Case in point: the ormolu versions at Versailles.) Designed by Colin King and available in painted steel, bronzed brass, or polished brass (above), the Interconnect takes an ancient necessity and turns the stationary object into something kinetic in spirit, reminiscent of artist Alexander Calder’s creations. “Simple forms become exaggerated, and what emerges is an object with a simplicity that speaks volumes,” King says. $690 as shown

Lampe Arche, Axel Chay, The Future Perfect

Raised along the shores of Côte Bleue, Axel Chay takes inspiration from the Mediterranean Sea. His Lampe Arche, made to order in France of aluminum and glass, feels a bit like a mooring post as imagined by a yacht designer, thanks to its gleaming surface. “Silver just keeps finding its way back into the conversation,” says David Alhadeff, founder of the Future Perfect, which carries the lamp. “You see it in Bauhaus and Deco, in tubular steel, in the glamour of the ’80s—it has always been a marker of big design moments. What’s exciting is it carries all that history and still feels incredibly fresh right now.” $7,130

Poodle Armchair, Mati Sipiora

With its tubular legs and sprightly silhouette, the Poodle Armchair is meant to summon both the posture and personality of the breed for which it is named—albeit one the Jetsons might have. “I drew inspiration from films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and the visionary worlds of Stanisław Lem’s novels; both informed the chair’s sense of clarity, strangeness, and timeless modernity,” says designer Mati Sipiora. Made in his father’s metal workshop in Poland, the chair has a new finish for 2025: a supple cognacCognacA brandy distilled from white wine grapes in the Cognac region of France and aged in oak, graded by age categories such as VS, VSOP, and XO. Prestigious houses produceGo to Cognac Glossary-leather seat. “The warm color tempers the coolness of steel,” says Sipiora. From about $1,715

Interval Coffee Table, PF Studio

Debuted in September, Pietro Franceschini’s coffee table (made in the Dominican Republic of stainless steel) is “a monolithic object that sits somewhere between rationalist sculpture and brutalist furniture,” as the Milan-based designer puts it. Indeed, this is not likely to become a catchall for books and ephemera. Instead, it is a moment in and of itself—one worth the eight-week lead time. It is, Franceschini says, “both furniture and totem, designed to provoke, not merely to serve.” $11,705

Collection 02 Mimo Side Table, Atelier Tison

Launched last December, Atelier Tison’s side table is brass at its sheening best. “It’s made in my workshop in Lyon, France, by me,” says designer Victor Tison. “Everything is done by hand in an artisanal way.” It is also proof that the metal doesn’t have to be literally brassy; this particular piece is almost lyrical. “What inspired the shapes was the desire for fluidity in a material as hard as metal and as noble as brass,” he explains. “My pieces have formal lines, and their aesthetic is essentially due to my metal-forming techniques.” Price upon request

This article originally appeared in Robb Report US.