Copper Gutters


Copper was mankind’s first metal and was used during the Stone Age over 10,000 years ago. Over the course of the millennia, mankind became increasingly proficient at handling this metal, deploying it for the most varied tasks – for example, hammering, heating, forging or mixing it with other metals to create alloys such as lead, silver or pewter. The discovery that copper and tin could easily be mixed provided the name for an era: the Bronze Age. All great cultures and civilizations worked with copper. The Colossus of Rhodes was made from copper and the Ancient Egyptians used copper for their water pipes. But the name for copper actually came from the Romans, which they called “aes cyprium”, which later became “cuprum”, the origin of today’s “copper”. There are very few materials that maintain their technical function and shape over extremely long periods of time. These include copper, a material that creates its own protective layer and that – with its patina – only reveals its full design qualities during the aging process. Click here to view more information.

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