This Barcelona apartment, designed by CaSA — Colombo and Serboli Architecture, features a tile design by Zelart. The colors of the tile have been customized to tie in with the rest of the house. “This is one of the biggest assets of cement tiles,” Rubio says. “They’re handmade, which means the colors in the pattern can be customized.” “The updating of cement tile patterns only increases the possible applications of this kind of covering and its target market,” says Matteo Colombo of CaSA. “It’s a material that can be used in new ways and as part of contemporary projects involving the laying of a new floor. You can see that with the Tyche apartment [pictured], where we opted to show that it’s not an original floor. If we hadn’t, it would have looked a little fake. When we lay a new floor, we prefer people to see that it’s a contemporary material rather than create a false history behind it.”“Cement tiles don’t lose any of their identity with these new designs,” says CaSA’s Andrea Serboli. “In fact, the patterns open up a whole new avenue of possibilities. Every material has a development curve, and it’s our belief that new tile designs will age just as well as traditional ones.”Take...
This Barcelona apartment, designed by CaSA — Colombo and Serboli Architecture, features a tile design by Zelart. The colors of the tile have been customized to tie in with the rest of the house. “This is one of the biggest assets of cement tiles,” Rubio says. “They’re handmade, which means the colors in the pattern can be customized.” “The updating of cement tile patterns only increases the possible applications of this kind of covering and its target market,” says Matteo Colombo of CaSA. “It’s a material that can be used in new ways and as part of contemporary projects involving the laying of a new floor. You can see that with the Tyche apartment [pictured], where we opted to show that it’s not an original floor. If we hadn’t, it would have looked a little fake. When we lay a new floor, we prefer people to see that it’s a contemporary material rather than create a false history behind it.”“Cement tiles don’t lose any of their identity with these new designs,” says CaSA’s Andrea Serboli. “In fact, the patterns open up a whole new avenue of possibilities. Every material has a development curve, and it’s our belief that new tile designs will age just as well as traditional ones.”Take...
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