Description of high-tech style in the interior:

HI-TECH STYLE - high-tech style. Created during a period of peak technological development, inspired by the first human space flights, the style appears before us as a reflection of the future, completely forgetting the classic images of interior and architecture. 

High-tech style in the interior has become synonymous with functionality, technical innovations, straightforwardness and simplicity of shapes. The style is remembered for the rich use of metal, glass and plastic in the interior and architecture. 


High-tech walls: Mostly plain. Decorate with metal plates for silver, glass and plastic inserts. If the wallpaper, then plain, vinyl. Often in high-tech, tiles are used that imitate metal, sometimes a rough stone, or simply with a cold sheen. 

High-tech ceiling: Glossy stretch or suspended, for example, from metal panels. Both single-level and multi-level are possible, and multi-level is emphasized by lighting.

High-tech floor: Ceramic or glossy parquet. Parquet floors with a pearlescent sheen and floors of cool colors, including tinted, gray, bleached gray, are best suited. As a high-tech style decor - plain rugs or with a geometric pattern. In the case of tiles, choose a glossy ceramic or porcelain stoneware finish. In any case, choose a tile without a pattern. In the case of using separate inserts of a different type of tile with a pattern, a pronounced curvature of the lines must be avoided. 

High-tech furniture: The furniture in the high-tech interior is at least, it is functional and practical. The proportions of the furniture should be carefully thought out, the designs are light, the shapes are clear and geometric. Leatherette, plastic, polished metal are used as materials. The hardware is mostly silver and shiny. 

If you are using a traditional coffee table, then at least it should be on wheels. High-tech appliances are built-in, tables and shelves are often glass, and chairs are always with metal legs and backs. 

High-tech decor items: To a minimum, they are in the spirit of the general high-tech interior. Standard decor elements (vases, lamps, pots, sculpture) are made of metal, plastic, glass or ceramics. 

Mirrors - without frames and decors, and on the wall instead of paintings - graphics (airbrushing) or black and white photos. Crockery - chrome and shiny, simple and concise forms, expressive in design. The use of ruffles, flowers, clay pots, wooden accessories is not allowed in the interior. Hi-tech is the option when newfangled technology becomes the decor item, on which special emphasis is placed. 
 

Pro Tips:

1. Being a modern style, high-tech in its purest form is not so common in the interiors of apartments and country houses. More style is inherent in commercial buildings, pavilions, ultra-modern offices. In interiors, it is often used mixed with other styles. The style will appeal to lovers of functional interiors, young people, all those who try to keep up with the times, using all the achievements of technology, emphasizing them in their home.

2. For a high-tech interior, choose colors: metallic, gray, white, black, sometimes beige or coffee, combining them with one or two saturated colors. The combination of colors is always straightforward, in the spirit of cubism. You can use the combination of one bright color with a pastel from the same range.

3. Artificial materials, transformation of shape, color and shades are the basis of high-tech interior. In this style, you can safely use plastic of all kinds: rigid and flexible, transparent and opaque, smooth or with a pronounced texture. Try to keep the main motive of hi-tech - the cold and elegant shine of steel, chrome and aluminum, "industrial" plots and forms.

4. Hi-tech departs from the classics in lighting. Try to decenter the light, creating the effect of a spacious, well-lit room. Light from modern lamps and fixtures, reflected everywhere from metal objects, will emphasize the style. Using string lights, you can visually divide the room into functional zones. Soffits of various configurations are also very convenient and practical. You can play with color and intensity of lighting, highlighting individual elements of the interior.

5. High-tech style defiantly shows what is usually customary to hide: pipes, beams, air ducts, elements of engineering equipment, various metal structures. The metal is accentuated, making it more saturated, other engineering details are painted in bright colors for the overall interior. Structural units, fasteners, rivets, glass and metal parts are used as decorative ornaments. It should be noted that all these elements do not carry any functional load, but are only a designation of the whole style in general.

High-tech style history:

HI-TECH (English hi-tech - high technology) is a style in architecture and design that originated in the 1970s in the depths of postmodernism and was widely used in the 1980s. Being a descendant of modernism, hi-tech has retained some of its qualities: pragmatism, sculptural form, complex simplicity, ornamental design and manufacturability. High-tech is often considered the end of an entire era - a time of change, modernity, the peak of "modernity" in architecture and design.

An important role in the development of high-tech was played by the Arkigram architectural group, which transferred the ideas of pop art and science fiction of the 1960s to architecture. B. Fuller and his geodesic domes, as well as Frey's kinetic structures, made a no less important role.

The main features of the high-tech style were: tubular metal structures and stairs brought outside the building, the widespread use of silver-metal color, frequent appeal to elements of constructivism and cubism, pragmatism in planning.

One of the first important high-tech structures is considered to be the Pompidou Center in Paris (1977), built by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. At first, the project was met with hostility, but by the 1990s, the controversy subsided, and the Center became one of the recognized attractions of Paris (as the Eiffel Tower once was).

Other no less main hi-tech ideologists are: Norman Foster, Nicholas Grimshaw and James Stirling.

After the initial mistrust, and somewhere rejection, as in England, they begin to change their point of view regarding style. Since the 1980s, hi-tech has become an expensive and prestigious style, shaping the image of the largest commercial firms. The fashion of the 70s and 80s was "mirror" buildings with railings made of polarized reflective glass to hide the structures. Since the 1990s hi-tech is increasingly trying to connect with nature, emphasizing its images. Thus, hi-tech gradually develops into bio-tech and eco-tech (this is especially noticeable in the works of the architects of the homeland of hi-tech - England and the Italian R. Piano).