Steampunk is that for style

Steampunk is a new design trend. At the moment, this is not a very well-known style, widespread not very widely, although the ranks of its fans are growing day by day. Style steampunk, or rather its features, tracked in the art of the entire twentieth century, although only in the late eighties, he had a name. Further, the characteristics of this current were systematized and determined. He began to pay attention, after which he had a whole army of fans. There was a new style. But we all know that everything new is the reincarnation of a well-forgotten old. Thus, the steampunk style has come into being, reborn, not born.

This is a retro-futuristic style. Some will say: this is a combination of incongruous! Or is it retro with cute pictures of the past, or a look into the future. How can these two worlds be one? They can, for example - steampunk!

This imitation of the reality of the second half of the XIX century, the stylization of the Victorian period. Futurism here lies in thinking about the development of steam technology. Imagine what the modern world would look like if the steam engine remained the main one?

Steampunk is, we repeat, imaginary pictures of the future representative of the Victorian era. Contemporaries of the XIX century. Saw perspectives in mechanics, and not in electronics. Consequently, they imagined robots were, in fact, huge clockwork toys. But vehicles represented improved airplanes, airships, locomotives, as well as high-speed cars on electronic and steam engines.

The main characteristics of the style: urban, sci-fi, combining futurism and retro, industrial.

Sources of inspiration: the revolution of the XIX century, works of science fiction of those years, pictures of an industrial city. And, of course, the works of Jules Verne.

Steampunk in materials and details

Materials: copper, steel, bronze, brass, darkened wood, leather, brick.

Tonality: soot, sepia, smog, smoke.

Details: levers, gears, rollers, springs, cylinders, etc. Items that resemble the outlines of a car, a locomotive, an airship.

Steampunk in art

In works, the time of action can be the 19th century, as well as our days and the distant future. The main thing here is the mechanisms and the characteristic atmosphere.

There is an opinion that the first examples of steampunk were the films "Brazil" and "Metropolis". Although whether these films refer specifically to this style - this is an open question for many. But whatever one may say, the style became more and more popular.

A huge number of modern films reproduce its atmosphere: for example, "Prestige", "Sherlock Holmes", "Around the World in 80 Days", "League of Outstanding Gentlemen". In some films from steampunk, the entourage is taken (gloominess, urbanism, steam engines, smoke), in others attention is sharpened on technologies, fantastic ones as well.

Of the numerous computer games are allocated quests, which are based on puzzles and riddles with different mechanisms and details. A great representative of this style is the famous game "Siberia", in which much is taken from steampunk: the effect of soot, the gloom of the atmosphere, robots and mechanical toys, a winding train. Sokal (artist) in the game combined steampunk and art nouveau styles, as Art Nouveau was just in vogue at the end of the Victorian period. The combination of these styles resulted in a magnificent, exciting and addictive fantasy world.

Music

At the present moment there is no such musical direction as steampunk. Music, which is issued for this style by a number of musical groups, is actually performed in the genres of dark cabaret, art rock, industrial and darkwave. "Steampunkness" of these groups is mainly expressed in the corresponding texts, the Victorian entourage, as well as the presence of melodic techniques and modern motifs inherent in the works of the late 19th century.

Steampunk is in fashion

Steampunk found expression in fashion. Many admirers of different vintage dresses became lovers of this style. Corsages, crinolines, hat-cylinders, suede and leather pants and jackets, belts with large rivets, retro glasses, long gloves are all traditional steampunk clothes. Toilets are supplemented by a variety of different parts, including buttons, rivets, belt fasteners, zippers, pockets, decorative pads and metal spikes.

How to dress properly

This all will cost you a lot. Although for those who decided to reincarnate in this retro-futuristic style, there can be no such barrier. So, these things will create the right image for you:

• Cloaks: coats and military trench coats;
• Headgear: bowlers, cylinders, veil and carnival masks;
• Jackets: double-breasted, as well as suits with waistcoats in thin stripes;
• Underwear: crinolines, corsets and bustiers;
• Shirts: chiffon, for men without collars;
• Steampunk dresses: lace, velor and velvet, with a skirt up to the knee or in the floor;
• Shoes: lace-up shoes, leggings;
• Trousers: breeches, breeches, etc .;
• Accessories: luxury pocket watches and brooches, goggles, flash drives and mobile phones can also be "Victorianised".

The main secrets and rules of style

If you do not know exactly how to choose the right clothes, buy things in Victorian style, and then add high-tech accessories to them. People who consider the main color of this image only black or brown, only dark or light, are strongly mistaken. Steampunk clothes can be any colors. The main thing is to adhere to a combination of technological complex prints and vibrant colors.

The main rule of style - stay yourself. You do not need to dress the same way as someone else, in order to look adequate within the style. Of course, if you are so interested in steampunk, a master class on the correct selection of the image will not hurt. But if there is no such possibility, do not be shy. Create your own, original image. Further we will find out that this year the designers have prepared for the stimpunkers.

Fashion collections

Steampunk now in the fashion world takes a worthy place. Experts even predict a mass production of style elements, whereas now it is a single one. Skeptics also assure that today's fashion trends are incredibly wide, while steampunk is a rather specific and loud image in order to be dominant. It is in a sense a subculture with a set of different aesthetic norms. Although he is guaranteed a place in fashion collections and a huge number of fans. Although the influence of this style on fashion can already be noted on the catwalks.

This year, many designers in their collections demonstrated various elements of steampunk. Although while they have this style is still too soft. But if you dilute it with characteristic accessories (glasses, cylinders, steampunk bracelets, costume jewelery from watch gears, boots with lacing), you will get an adequate, at the same time bold image.

The most luxurious and extravagant are the Alexander McQueen collections. But in such dresses you will not go to a simple party.

Steampunk decorations

Such decorations look authentic, reminding at times museum exhibits. Such attributes express very clearly the mechanical nature of a fan of this style, in addition, the fusion of the mechanical past and technological modernity. The image is very harmoniously complemented by such accessories and steampunk decorations as details of mechanisms, pendants and earrings from rusty metal, all kinds of measuring devices, huge umbrellas with handles made of wood, goggles.

Goggles

Goggles are round- shaped gas-welding glasses , sometimes closed glasses with special flaps, models for skiers, snowboarders or motorcyclists. Most often, goggles use cybernotes. But there are other directions in which these glasses are popular: steampunk and anime.

Specificity of their wearing implies their presence on the head or forehead. Due to this unusual arrangement, grids, colored glass, coolers, protective gratings, lenses, fragments of electronic circuits, images of chemical and biological hazard signs, etc. are actively used in their design. Also, steampunk glasses assume the use of all kinds of spikes, tubes, LEDs, screws, Rivets and other materials, among which are glowing in the ultraviolet.

Clock

Created in the style of steampunk watches are very expensive, despite the fact that they are not always made of high quality materials. At the same time they inspire confidence with their original design. Such models seem more versatile due to the large number of gears and other design elements. In principle, functions are not important ... Steampunk watches are purchased exclusively for the sake of design, which is basically completely unique. Although they are coping with the role of models we are accustomed to. Often, the work was done simply by enthusiasts, not by professional designers. Some works were made only for decorative purposes. They are of no use to the other. Some manufacturers of such models do not sell their work. But you can always agree ...

The creation of such wristwatches came to us along with fiction. A new direction of art inspired watchmakers from all over the world to unusual, "strange" things that would be inherent in the style of steampunk. With their own hands, they began to make watches, while not being afraid of misunderstanding of consumers. Masters make almost utopian models, constantly referring to the world of 19-20 centuries. Their watch works, although associated with many aliens from the future, are not without enough clear and useful functions.

Such characteristics correspond to the models of "Romain Jerome". The ingenious designer and chief developer Ivan Arpa was able to display a provocative and bold decision embodied in the brainchild of the company from Switzerland "Haute Horlogerie". Equipped with an ultra-precise mechanism, these watches with the name "Titanic DNA" in themselves seem to "carry" particles of this legendary ship, as they are made of its fragments. Another legend of the company was the "Moon dust" model. Only 1969 people allowed themselves to buy this watch, since they were released in limited edition in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the conquest of the moon. Their body was made of real moon dust and parts of the ship "Apollo-11".

A watch company called "HD3 Complication", which announced itself not so long ago, created an exact "Luxury" watch, combining it with the "Vulcania" series. The model "Black PearlHD3 Complication" from this Swiss manufactory, inspired by the romance of the sea and the subject of pirates of the "Black Pearl", enjoys incredible success. At the same time, updated devices are high-tech waterproof chronometers with a 2-axis tourbillon.

Also we can not say about the company "MB & F". To buy "HM3 FROG" watches only twelve people will have a serious and sufficient sense of humor. "Frog" of this company has a 22K gold rotor and a titanium case.

Also, the watch market decided to "blow up" and the company from Switzerland "Cabestan" with its futuristic model "Winch Tourbillion Vertical Watch", as well as the legendary company "Harry Winston", presenting the public "Opus Eleven".

Steampunk in the interior

Such interiors are youth, conceptual, brutal. Decor in the style of steampunk is most suitable for creating rooms for boys, apartments for young couples who are passionate about retro-fantasy, as well as men's bachelor chambers.

Colors

The style is accompanied by smoke and soot, therefore, mostly dark colors: gray, brown, dirty-brick, rusty, black. If you choose steampunk wallpaper, you need to understand that the use of other shades is not forbidden, although it is better that they are different smoky shades: smoky blue instead of blue, maunbettena, and not pink. Ideally there will be the presence of the color of copper, steel, bronze or brass.

Finishing materials

The best finishes - board, brickwork, preservation of a concrete "bare" wall, stone, rough plaster, floor tiles, imitating cobblestone pavement. Such an urban set can be diluted with wallpaper in stripes, in a cage, with details depicting springs and gears or with a damask pattern. Wallpaper steampunk with a touch of grunge are also an excellent opportunity to create an atmosphere of style. Although not confuse the vintage with touching prints of Provence. In this case, do not forget about the shades - slightly chamber and rough, saturated. In addition, one of the popular drawings - it's all kinds of monograms, perfectly complementing the steampunk.

How to properly decorate the walls in this style? It will be good to choose brick and stone masonry. She must have a story, a stone with peeling paint, shabby. In this case, the ideal brick masonry is the classic London brick.

In case steampunk and art nouveau styles are combined, luxurious parquet and wood paneling are ideal.

Furniture

Sofas, chairs, chairs in steampunk style are leather, with rivets models. Here the elements created in the Victorian style, among which the wooden office, the leather sofa chesterfield, etc., will perfectly fit here.

Various pieces of furniture can also be forged: chairs, tables, beds. The metal cabinet will be an excellent purchase for the interior of this style. The kitchen set is best covered with a countertop, which is faced with steel. Futurism in this direction is also emphasized by radial facades.

In such interiors, riveted furniture (wicker, leather or wooden) looks authentic, in addition, objects created in the colonial style. In this case, the accessories must be the color of copper, brass, bronze.

In the event that the steampunk is connected to the art nouveau, some of the furniture is done in curved flowing lines that are characteristic of this decorative style.

Decor

One of the main symbols of steampunk and the main element of the decoration is the gear. It is present everywhere. Such cogwheels decorate objects of decor, furniture and walls. Also from them create original, unique panels.

Also typical are elements that duplicate the form of the airship: among them there may be lamps, ceiling construction, original ashtrays. Active use of objects resembling the details of a machine, a steam engine, a submarine or a locomotive is encouraged.

Wall, table and floor clocks are another important part of the style. Their design is complicated by a huge number of additional details.

So, the atmosphere of steampunk can create the following interesting items:

• Fonts: typewriter, handwritten, "newspaper" headlines;
• White inscriptions on black;
• Images of the clock - hands and dials;
• Gears, nuts, bolts;
• Keys;
• Metal and wire;
• Ropes, pieces of machinery;
• Metal buttons;
• Pieces of rough material;
• Wires, preferably copper, can be bundles;
• Pearls;
• Flakonchiki - "aged", dirty and muddy;
• Lightning;
• bung;
• Feathers, images of crows, wings;
• Black lace;
• Images of blades, lamps, typewriters, scissors, monocles, glasses, old cameras, lenses, bowlers and hat-cylinders;
• Black, brown, gray flowers;
• Schemes of mechanisms;
• Drawings, photos of industrial landscapes - railway stations, factories, prisons, pipes;
• metal grid;
• Pieces of straps, buckles;
• Pieces of playing cards;
• Images of balloons, dirigibles, ship ships;
• Stamps and images with the silhouettes of old mannequins, chandeliers, skeletons;
• Metal beads;
• Set of digits;
• Imitation of stains and rusty streaks;
• Silvering, gilding, bronzing;
• Rough ropes;
• Pieces of leather, as if from the upholstery or bindings of books.

Fans of this style have one interesting hobby - give the modern subjects a steampunk look. For example, such as a TV, laptop, toaster. At the same time, the design is based on combining futurism and vintage. Objects look the same, although they are allegedly stuffed with various incomprehensible mechanisms. As if they were manufactured in the production of the future.

Of course, there are also digital sets that make it possible to create digital scrapbooking of this style, because sometimes real materials are difficult to find.
But it is possible and useful for parts to disassemble unnecessary hours already, to get details from there, and also print pictures and drawings from the Internet, find keys and torn chains, take colored pieces of wire, which is not difficult at all.

Having decided to choose such style for registration of an apartment, you can too be carried away by the given interesting employment.