What if metal entered the conversation earlier?
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In many interiors, metal enters the conversation as a finishing element — a frame, an edge, a trim, a piece of hardware.
The idea behind Everything Metal grew from architect and 3lite founder Milan Jankovic’s experience working across complex interiors, where he saw an opportunity to bring metal into that conversation much earlier.
His interest was not in metal in isolation, but in what might happen when it was considered alongside wood, glass and other materials from the very beginning of the design process — not simply as something that finishes an interior, but as something that can help define it.
That thinking became Everything Metal.
Born from 3lite’s experience delivering complex interiors across the United States and internationally, Everything Metal brings together design understanding, material development, engineering, and fabrication.
That conversation is already extending beyond individual projects. Through a series of Lunch & Learn sessions with architecture and interior design practices in the UK, France and Dubai, Everything Metal has been exploring how designers specify metal, where challenges typically emerge, and what becomes possible when material knowledge and fabrication expertise are introduced earlier in the creative process.
At HIX Europe 2026, that thinking takes physical form.
Booth F60 is conceived as an interior, not a material display.
At its centre, a sculptural round bar explores how a change in metal, tone, texture, and reflectivity can transform the character of the same form. Around it, a Liquid Metal feature wall and shelving installation, a bespoke drinks cabinet and custom FF&E demonstrate how metal can move beyond the sample and into the architecture of a space — interacting with glass, mirror, and other materials at full scale.
Visitors can also explore Everything Metal’s Essential, Signature and Liquid Metal collections, from refined architectural finishes to aged and patinated brass, hammered and directional surfaces, oxidised copper with brass, PVD-coated stainless steel, and seamless Liquid Metal applications.
But the material is only part of the work.
Everything Metal collaborates closely with interior designers and architects from the earliest stages of a project, supporting specification and finish development, sampling and design-assist, engineering, shop drawings, and value engineering through to procurement, fabrication, logistics and delivery.
A project may begin with a sketch, a reference image, a particular patina, or a geometry that has not yet been resolved. The objective is not to simplify the idea until it becomes easy to manufacture, but to understand what matters about it and find the technical path that allows that character to remain.
Because the best bespoke work rarely reveals how difficult it was to make. It simply feels as though it belongs.
For HIX 2026 and its theme Changes, Everything Metal explores change at material level — how a change in surface can transform an object, how materials can alter one another, and how bringing metal into the conversation earlier can open new possibilities for an interior.
Visit Booth F60 with a detail, a material challenge or an idea that hasn’t been resolved yet.
Let’s see where it can go.
Everything Metal by 3lite | Booth F60 | HIX Europe 2026
When in doubt, go metal.