Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “Cersaie 2018 Tile Trends”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
Haute Couture Surfaces
The haute couture of wall and floor coverings takes the runway. From iridescent mosaics to graphic and multicolored tiles, the stage is set for a tailored and personalized design. A tasteful and romantic techno décor triumphs.
Living at Cersaie
Increasingly spectacular, ceramic surfaces on the grand catwalk of Cersaie 2018 dress spaces like contemporary tapestries and flaunt a made-to-measure design as sought-after as a haute couture garment, often signed by big names in design. Thanks to the hi-tech solutions of new technologies, surfaces become decorative in a triumph of formats, colors, and finishes.
The real trend is tailor-made, with companies committed to offering catalogs so multifaceted and a breadth of proposals to ensure a new made-to-measure approach on an industrial scale. From invisible joints ensured by waterjet cutting to large formats, aesthetics meet hi-tech.
An example is the oversized wallpaper of the Grand Carpet collection by Antonio Citterio and Patricia Viel for Marazzi, which traces the patterns of an ancient Persian carpet onto 120×240 cm porcelain stoneware slabs.
Regarding Style
The range spans from geometric to hyper-realistic and textural, with the grand return of mosaic, which, through iridescence and plays of gloss and matte, animates wall coverings as the protagonist. Pixel effect for the Mosaico Metrica by Appiani, balancing between the millennia-old technique and a digital 2.0 vision. Meanwhile, Botanic Tale by Mosaico+ draws inspiration from an ancient botanical garden but renders it on next-generation modular tesserae, suitable for small and large surfaces.
From the meeting of glass and polymers comes the Vetrite series by Sicis: large-format slabs that are the macro evolution of mosaic, with equal shimmer and brightness. Virtuous is the 3D Dust by Boxer, a mosaic made from recycled glass paste with three-dimensional movement.
Among Tiles
Very in vogue is the graphic motif renewed with contemporary strokes. Optical in a romantic key, the Corrispondenza model by Ceramica Bardelli, created by interior design stars Dimorestudio, features novel tones in pink, green, terracotta, burgundy, and violet hand-painted on stoneware. The architect duo Marcante Testa also interprets geometries with the Dekorami series for Ceramica Vogue but chooses to focus on textures with tactile, relief lace patterns. A decorative texture that continues the work on pattern and color already begun with the Confetti series.
Patterns Aside
The scene is all for surfaces inspired by natural materials. The reproduction fidelity, even on large sizes, of digital printing gives ceramic an ultra-material effect. One for all is the Steelway collection by Iris Ceramica where the full-body Hi-Lite maxi slabs, measuring three meters by one with a 6 mm thickness, recreate the metallic effect, from copper to pewter to a brushed finish. The result is a strong architectural statement, but the Modena-based company's catalog doesn't lack softer proposals like the pastel-colored semi-stoneware of the Be In series.
For this Cersaie, marbles, woods, metals, stones, and fabrics imprinted on stoneware triumph: a revolution begun in recent years and more present than ever. It is joined by the chromatic wave of Pink Power Tiles, with pink in all its shades coloring ceramics in pastel hues. Whatever the 'garment,' the constant is the sophistication of coverings with a design vocation and technological soul, aiming to seduce with high aesthetics and high performance.
Source: Read the original article | Published: July 19, 2018