The rustic-industrial style is one that embodies all of these elements with its ability to achieve aesthetic balance through a blend of exposed steel and rustic wood.

A year ago, some designers reacted to the distress of the financial pages by borrowing imagery from farming and scenes of rustic subsistence, a style informed by the fear that we can no longer ...

The Milan Furniture Fair, design’s most responsive gauge of the moment, showed stirrings last year of a new rustic that expressed the virtues of farmhouse simplicity and signs of the human hand ...