Ceramic floors

Choosing the floor

The floor in ceramic, is widely used in recent years for its aesthetics and technical results that can reach its arrangement. Thanks to the latest technologies in fact, now you can reproduce with some care, natural materials that reflect the tastes and needs of those looking for a flooring that gives a solution, from the point of view of aesthetics, that reproduces a specific material, but at the same time preserves and offers the same technical opportunities that can give you a cutting-edge material.

Natural materials reproduced on ceramic

Interesting in this regard is the flooring designed by the company VitrA, of particular interest is its collection called Urban Inspired, a series of tiles that have been designed taking inspiration from six cities, an interesting approach because it allows the collection to present products that are proposed in trade, just for the unique character of the materials that affect these cities, then reproduced in porcelain.

The six cities that have inspired the new collection are Rio De Janeiro, London, Rome, Moscow, Berlin and Istanbul. Regarding Rio De Janeiro, the wood is the material that unites and characterizes the spirit of the place, even in Istanbul wood becomes the architectural background of the city. In London the concrete instead characterizes the city symbol of industrial development, in Berlin the metal footprint now describes its appearance.

In Moscow marble and light colored stones become a significant element of an austere environment. In Rome is the stone of the monuments that prevails and makes alive the magnificence of a city with a so great historical and architectural value.

The porcelain of the collection Urban Inspired, becomes similar to wood, marble, concrete and metal, reproducing the beauty of the material and at the same time having the advantages of a modern and innovative material.

Let's see each series individually from the Urban Inspired Collection. LONDON INSPIRED is a series suitable for both floors and walls, LONDON INSPIRED instead highlights the brilliance and splendor of poured concrete, the coating looks suitable for a modern setting.

ISTANBUL INSPIRED appears to be a series in which the contrasts create a condition of equilibrium between the white and black or through contrasting veins of the wood. Interesting also turns out to be the series RIO DE JANEIRO INSPIRED, where the porcelain want to simulate the use of blonde oak or wenge wood.

Finally MOSCOW INSPIRED offers surfaces designed to remember the agate marble in white, beige and caramel and BERLIN INSPIRED however, is a series that features a bold design that combines the wood to metal to create innovative surfaces.

Another company that offers a type of ceramic floor that reproduces natural materials, is Ceramica Ariana. The company ABK Group brand, offers for 2014 the collections Portland 325 and Futura that together with ceramic stave 20x170 by Larix, can also be used in a complementary manner to each other, to create engaging environments. Let's see these products individually.

PORTLAND 325 was born thanks to the collaboration of the company with the study Archdesign from Cesena. The design and development of graphical flooring stems from the analysis of photographic and digital scan of some of the walls that have been plastered with lime, belonging to a disused factory forties. The solution is designed both for the floor that for the coating in 30x60 and 60x60, or in new slats ceramics 40x170 and 20x170.

The products are made with highly plastic material that allows an easier installation and a technology Auto-Leveling, in this way you are able to lay them in perfect adherence and self-leveling due to their own weight.

The collection FUTURE instead is inspired by natural stone and in particular the sedimentary rock extracted on Lake Iseo, the so-called stump Grè. Its appearance reproduces the characteristic tissue of pebbles that are tied together by cementing limestone and that the time patterns over the millennia.

The proposals for this collection are three, satin floor silk touch, or lapped ridge and finally hammered finish, this way it is possible to implement different and original surfaces. Available sizes are 30x60 cm, 60x60 if it is rectified products and 60x60 if natural.

Finally Ariana Ceramica company's latest collection, is Larix, inspired by the larch an essence that is able to enhance the aesthetic qualities of the floor. This is characterized by a slight glazed effect, it gives the floor a certain gloss that highlights the particular aged appearance that characterizes the untreated larch wood when it is exposed to sunlight and moisture, and when it is subjected to wear.

Larix is proposed in four sizes adjusted, from 20x80 cm to 20x170 cm, 13,5 x80 and 60x60 cm to finally have the interior. Interesting is the new plank that is offered in ceramic trade in the rectified format 20x170 cm.