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Creating continuous surfaces with rectified porcelain stoneware

Interior Design

Creating continuous surfaces with rectified porcelain stoneware

For several years, porcelain stoneware has been prominent on the market as a versatile material for indoor and outdoor finishes. Today, thanks to rectified stoneware, the application potential has further expanded. But how did this rectified product come about?

Thin porcelain stoneware: resistance and elegance in 6mm

Large format tiles

Thin porcelain stoneware: resistance and elegance in 6mm

In recent decades the production of porcelain stoneware has undergone significant advances. In particular, it has specialised in the construction of large slabs in dimensions which were unthinkable until recently, and with thicknesses of less than one centimetre. The large sizes have allowed its widespread use as an external covering for floors and facades, and in addition, the reduced thicknesses make it suitable for truly innovative uses.

The advantages of porcelain stoneware flooring

Interior Design

The advantages of porcelain stoneware flooring

In the late seventies, there was the most important turning point in the field of ceramic production: the creation of porcelain stoneware. This led to a radical transformation of the industry.

Cement-effect porcelain stoneware: industrial style in interior design

Interior Design

Cement-effect porcelain stoneware: industrial style in interior design

At the end of the twentieth century there was a tendency in large cities like London, Berlin and New York, but also Milan, to convert disused factories and industrial spaces into lofts, residences and offices: the industrial style was born.

Porcelain stoneware in large format: 1001 applications

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Porcelain stoneware in large format: 1001 applications

Thanks to a growing demand on the contemporary market and on the resulting research in technical fields, large-format porcelain stoneware (slabs up to 160x320cm) can now respond to the most varied project needs and guarantee resistance and applicational versatility in only a few millimetres of thickness.

Furnishing with large format tiles: suggestions from the world of interior design

Large format tiles

Furnishing with large format tiles: suggestions from the world of interior design

The production of porcelain stoneware has gone through an era of great innovation. Today, slabs can be made with defined and variegated textures, representing the appearance of natural materials to where the difference is hardly noticeable. Furthermore, production has also specialized in large slabs that are less than one centimetre thick and whose size would have been unthinkable until recently.

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand... the varieties of large-format porcelain stoneware

Large format tiles

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand... the varieties of large-format porcelain stoneware

One. One identity of large-format porcelain stoneware is that its technical characteristics are uniquely suitable in the fields of building materials and interior design.

Innovative materials for furnishing public areas and Ho.Re.Ca. spaces

Interior Design

Innovative materials for furnishing public areas and Ho.Re.Ca. spaces

In addition to museums, squares and tourist sites, there are places that, more than others, represent the essence and embody the spirit of the time in which they were conceived: among these places are bars, historic cafes and restaurants. Between 1907 and 1909, the Austrian architect Adolf Loos designed and built the Kärntner Bar (better known as the American Bar of Vienna).

Architecture and design in the Ho.Re.Ca sector: an international overview

Interior Design

Architecture and design in the Ho.Re.Ca sector: an international overview

In the second book of Filarete’s Treatise on Architecture, written in the second half of the 15th century, he introduces a metaphor which is among the most famous in the history of architecture. The architect and theorist wrote that in a project there is a father and a mother, where the paternal figure is represented by the commissioner of the work and the maternal figure by the architect.

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