Category: Fabric-effect tiles

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Bouquet Of Beauty

Bouquet Ceramic’s Cevisama stand was a riot of commercially-aware, decorative designs in small formats, featuring unusual shapes, eye-popping glazes, beautiful graphics, sculptural forms and technical expertise in tile form. Continue reading Bouquet Of Beauty

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Good Vibes in on-trend colours by Cevica
3D tiles, Artisanal Tiles, Bathrooms, Brick Tiles, Colour Trends, Concrete-effect tiles, Digital Decoration, Encaustic Tiles, Exhibitions, Façades, Fabric-effect tiles, Floor Tiles, Floral Tiles, Geometric tiles, Glass Tiles, Glazed Tiles, Hand-made Tiles, Hexagonal Tiles, Marble-effect tiles, Mosaics & Glass Tiles, Moulded Tiles, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Stone-effect Tiles, Tile Technology, Tiled Interiors, Ventilated Façades, Wall Tiles, Wood-effect Tiles

Islington Insights

At the Surface Design Show, London in early February, Tile of Spain will curate a display of new Spanish ceramic and porcelain tile designs that offer an eclectic choice of colours, shapes, finishes and formats for both residential and commercial projects. Continue reading Islington Insights

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Business & Markets, Cersaie, Colour Trends, Design, Digital Decoration, Fabric-effect tiles, Floor Tiles, Italian tiles, Marble-effect tiles, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Stone-effect Tiles, Tile Technology, tile trend, Tiled Interiors, Trends, Wall Tiles

New Typologies

While some tile manufacturers recreate the look of wood or stone to an impressive degree of realism, others mix different materials or handpick certain characteristics to form a whole new typology. Continue reading New Typologies

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Cover range by Patrica Urquiola for Mutina: Nube Black, Nube Grey, Nube White.
Continuous Pressing Technology, Fabric-effect tiles, Italian tiles, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Production Technology, Tile Designers, Tile Technology

Uniquely Urquiola

Mutina’s new Cover collection marks one of Patrica Urquiola’s first ventures with large ceramic slabs made using Continua Plus technology. Here, the clay is blended with a mixture of micro-grit, which is then used as a base for the coloured patterns applied using silk-screens. Continue reading Uniquely Urquiola

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Brick Tiles, Fabric-effect tiles

Deconstructing Decoration

The key to the impact of Decortiles’ 2017 portfolio lies in the duality between the brutal and the delicate. This, together with a multiplicity of surfaces, formats, and finishes, including on-trend sober tones of grey, black, and white, results in a range that both excites and offers clear commercial potential. Continue reading Deconstructing Decoration

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Brick Tiles, Cersaie, Concrete-effect tiles, Digital Decoration, Exhibitions, Fabric-effect tiles, Floor Tiles, Floral Tiles, Geometric tiles, Glazed Tiles, Hexagonal Tiles, Marble-effect tiles, Mosaics & Glass Tiles, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Production Technology, Retail Interiors, Stone-effect Tiles, Terracotta, Tile Designers, Tile Technology, Tiled Interiors, Ventilated Façades, Wall Tiles, Wood-effect Tiles

Apposite Aparici

Right now very few companies on the planet can match Aparici’s 2017/18 portfolio for sheer inventiveness, humour, tone, texture and graphic joie de vivre. Continue reading Apposite Aparici

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Fabric-effect tiles, New Tile Designs

Tempting Tactile Textures

Ceramica Sant’Agostino is one of the leading pioneers in the area of textile-effect tiles. The ground-breaking Digitalart and Tailorart ranges have now been joined by Fineart. This new fabric-effect porcelain collection features high-end digital printing techniques and a light 3D structure. It offers a fine texture, soft tones, delicate melanges, and small formats. Continue reading Tempting Tactile Textures

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Competitions, Design Weeks & More, Fabric-effect tiles, Glass Mosaics, Mosaics & Glass Tiles, Moulded Tiles, New Tile Designs

February Fashion Feature

For more than ten years Surface Design Show has been the place where industry people immerse themselves in the latest materials for the built environment, gain new insights and network with like-minded designers and suppliers. From 6th to 8th February 2018, the show will return to London’s Business Design Centre, presenting the newest and best surfaces that the design industry has to offer. Continue reading February Fashion Feature

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Art and Artists, Fabric-effect tiles, New Tile Designs, Public Art

Augmented Actuality Activated

Marazzi’s Grand Carpet is produced in six different 1,200 by 2,400mm modules, 6mm thick, in two sophisticated colour shades, Smoke and Sand. This represents an original approach to large slabs and to porcelain stoneware itself, “easy to handle and creative in its surface finishes, a characteristic not found in any other engineered material,” in the words of the designers: architects Citterio and Veil. Continue reading Augmented Actuality Activated

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Sant Anselmo sculpts sumptuous glazed surfaces
Architecture, Artisanal Tiles, Brick Tiles, Concrete Tiles, Concrete-effect tiles, Design, Digital Decoration, Exhibitions, External Tiling, Façades, Fabric-effect tiles, Floor Tiles, Floral Tiles, Geometric tiles, Glass Tiles, Glazed Tiles, Hand-made Tiles, Hexagonal Tiles, Mosaics & Glass Tiles, Moulded Tiles, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Production Technology, Stone-effect Tiles, Terracotta, Tile Designers, Tile Technology, Tiled Interiors, United Kingdom, Ventilated Façades, Wall Tiles, Wood-effect Tiles

Sublime Surface Selection

One of the highlights of The Surface & Materials Show; Lumentile is a luminous construction element that uses cutting-edge technology to display lights, colours and images, creating a chameleonic skin for horizontal or vertical applications. Continue reading Sublime Surface Selection

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