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07-09-2021

A warm and relaxing ambience with wood-effect technical ceramics

The aesthetics of wood has always been central to design, interior design and surfaces of all kinds, which is why wood remains extremely popular for indoor and outdoor flooring, thanks to the great potential offered by high-tech ceramics. In many cases, Iris Ceramica’s technical porcelain stoneware, available in sophisticated textures such as French Woods and E-Wood, is the preferred choice due to its greater resistance, durability and the fact that no special maintenance is required

13-08-2021

Architecture books for the summer and beyond

For those on holiday or simply want to take an imaginary trip from the comfort of their own homes, we recommend four books from Phaidon, ranging from holidays in nature to the ocean and the mountains. These are books where you will find refuges, villas, and residences by well-known and lesser-known architects located in genuinely unique natural settings.

03-08-2021

Natural and elegant: Porcelaingres’s stone, cement and wood collections for outdoor use

Porcelaingres’s products for outdoor use explore various different atmospheres connected with the principal materials used in outdoor settings, such as stone, cement and wood. The vast selection of outdoor surfaces in the catalogue are perfect for projects characterised by a great variety of styles and purposes, ranging from walkways to seating. Resistant, unalterable Porcelaingres high-tech ceramic makes it fun to design your own green spaces, creating new outdoor “rooms” for the home!

20-07-2021

Marmi Maximum: beauty and flexibility for unique customised design

The technical and aesthetic performance of Fiandre Architectural Surfaces’s Marmi Maximum slabs is perfect for covering surfaces of all kinds, producing customised elements of design, installations and furnishings. Unique properties such as luminosity, wealth of detail and refined veining add to the material’s perceived value and give a precious original atmosphere to spaces

08-06-2021

Urban by Porcelaingres: versatile, textured surfaces for contemporary spaces

The high-tech ceramic offered by Porcelaingres in its new Urban collection uses a neutral, textured palette to create a high-impact, aesthetically elegant, trendy surface. A combination of qualities that makes it extremely versatile and therefore suitable for use in any contemporary styles, as well as being easy to combine and perfectly timeless, for both residential and contract settings.

13-04-2021

Tyrol and Lunar Stone: the technical and aesthetic benefits of the new FMG H270 sizes

Inspired by the tradition of stone, the two new surfaces in FMG’s Maxfine range, Tyrol Stone and Lunar Stone, share the same delicate look with their neutral background in hues of ash grey and ivory beige. The aesthetic qualities of the two surfaces are combined with the technical performance of the H270 programme to which they both belong, characterised by the new 120x120 cm and 270x120 cm sizes. Manoeuvrable, practical and lightweight, the new sizes are easy to work with and install, broadening the potential available to designers

09-03-2021

CM2 Next Ariostea: practical, elegant outdoor surfaces

Ariostea's CM2 thick ceramic surfaces for outdoor use offer a number of benefits. Easy to install and easy to clean, they drain off moisture and are resistant to stress, atmospheric agents and loads.' The Next collection, a new addition to the CM2 range, offers all the best technical performance of quality porcelain to allow you to focus on aesthetic considerations. An elegant palette of neutral natural hues makes Next easy to combine with trendy furnishings, establishing continuity between indoors and outdoors

23-02-2021

All the simplicity of stone and the beauty of marble in Royal Stone from Porcelaingres

Refined and delicate, yet solemn and essential: that’s the Royal Stone collection of floor and wall coverings from Porcelaingres. The solidity of stone and the prestige of marble create surfaces with a bold metropolitan look in a neutral colour palette that goes with everything. Great Royal Stone maxi-slabs permit continuity in the use of materials between inside and outside, favouring aspects of perception attributed great importance in architecture today, such as extension and continuity of visual space