Claudio Silvestrin presents i Frammenti
That's a sheeted mosaic tile believe it or no longer.
I registered to attend this year's Coverings recently, that's the tile and stone industry's big trade show. I sat it out last year and in anticipation of this year's show I've been digging through my library and revisiting all the cool stuff I saw the last time. That's where the Petracer's and the Dune posts came from last week.
As amazed as I changed into with the aid of the ones two services, what will continually stand out to me from that show was the Brix booth. Brix is some other tile business enterprise primarily based out of Modena but to call them a tile organisation would not begin to do them justice. Brix is a layout enterprise that expresses itself thru tile is a higher way to explain them.
One of Brix's coolest products is a tile series developed for them by the architect/ designer Claudio Silvestrin and the series is called i Frammenti. Frammenti means fragments in Italian and the name fits.
The collection receives its call from the 5mm pieces of porcelain it is crafted from. Each piece is a nearly perfect half centimeter by means of 1/2 centimeter with the aid of half of centimeter dice and they are bound collectively on a bendy, silicone mesh. The aggregate of the small sizes of the man or woman portions and the silicone backer make for a mosaic tile that's inherently, amazingly bendy. Because it's porcelain, it can be used indoors or out, and in wet and dry regions. The Brix sales space at Coverings in 2008 featured a series of columns and different rounded shapes that were covered in i Frammenti mosaics and I'd by no means visible something find it irresistible.
This product and the rest of the products made by Brix are available worldwide through better showrooms. I go to trade shows like Coverings as often as I do in order to keep on top of what new. The Italian manufacturers never fail to disappoint. And that's just the Italian manufacturers who come to the US to show off their wares. One of these days I will make to to Cersaie , in Bologna. Just as an FYI, Cersaie is the international version of Coverings though from what I understand it's in another league all together.
In the meantime, you can find more information on i Frammenti and the rest of Brix's offerings here , here and here .