Steampunk Style Furniture

Do you want to be original, or does it come naturally to you? Either way, a steampunk style of furniture will surely make your home unique and distinctive. The conceptual theme of steampunk is based on Victorian fashion in England and Belle Époque in France, all infused with steam engines while avoiding electricity, with details such as gears and steam pipes serving as parts of the furniture. Although today, in the creation of steampunk-style furniture, parts are modified—for example, table lamps that run on electricity but are designed with steam pipes and gears.

I believe everyone has heard of, if not read, the science fiction novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" featuring the Nautilus, authored by Jules Verne in 1867. The Nautilus is a steampunk-style submarine where the story unfolds with steam-powered technology.

The steampunk aesthetic as a subculture spread in the 20th and 21st centuries as a lifestyle, including fashion, clothing, style accessories like protective goggles, and of course, furniture. To specify in detail, I would say that the steampunk style is based on industrial style, synthesizing key details such as gears, steam pipes, wrought iron, rustic wood, metal, brick, and vintage technology from the Industrial Revolution’s steam trains and ships.

This Kingsbridge table and many other examples can be found at www.steelvintage.com, the website of a family company in the UK that manufactures and sells vintage metal furniture. The knowledge gained from years of restoring early 20th-century furniture has been used to produce vintage metal furniture, combining traditional and contemporary techniques.

The Steampunk Coffee Table | Steel Vintage - The Industrial Furniture Company - Sizes and styles are scalable, you may choose between seven wood types and colours, tree wood style and five wood distress levels.