Industrial chic seen as new home design trend.
The Salt Lake Tribune /AP (11/18, Cook) reports, "When high-tech entrepreneur Matthew Hill designed his condo in Lansing, Mich., he wanted decor to reflect his personality and 'pretty wild lifestyle.' ... Hill opted for a coffee table devised from a section of a C-119 cargo plane." The Tribune continues, "Call it industrial chic. Furniture and accessories this year are flaunting their rivets, welds and obvious mechanical origins. Rooms already dressed in midcentury furniture seem the most receptive to these elements, which require the balancing effect of more masculine silhouettes, heftier textures." The trend "is advancing throughout the home furnishings marketplace. A wave of commercial-grade trash bins, bread boxes, toasters and other kitchen accouterments has come ashore, at pricepoints high and low."