From September 30 to October 5, the international exhibition Cersaie took place in Bologna. The largest companies presented the achievements of the ceramic and plumbing industry: light gray and graphite were the dominant colors, however, bright colors still made their way through the concrete slabs

Passing the gallery

Materials prepared: Nikolay Fedyanin

Magazine: N11 (78) 2003

From September 30 to October 5, the 21st Cersaie International Exhibition took place in Bologna. Traditionally, in Bologna, the largest firms represent the achievements of the ceramic and sanitary facilities. This year, Cersaie was surprisingly "gray": the manufacturers represented almost the same thing, and the dominant colors were light gray and graphite. However, bright colors still made their way through the "concrete slabs" “The tile that imitates natural stone with all its veins and vycherbliny is now appreciated,” notes Nikolay Repnikov, the manager of the Tile salon salon. “I also noticed that even those companies that always worked only with ceramic tiles now offer their own mosaic collections , a tile for a mosaic or a mosaic of marble pieces, is again in vogue. " And Inna Buzdalina from “Station Design” draws attention to another trend. “It’s very interesting,” she says, “that companies embody the ideas of designers who have passed away. BARDELLI presented an amazing tile with drawings by Piero Fornasetti, and BISAZZA - the Neoclassici collection, in which the architect Carlo Dal Bianco depicted the sculptures of the famous Antonio Canova. "The suprematist's match Baths and faucets now look as if they were designed by Kazimir Malevich or Alexander Rodchenko. Euclidean geometry defeated the kingdom of nature, organic forms temporarily receded into the background. However, the Italians themselves speak not about “geometrical”, but about “architectural”. In fact, faucets and baths are increasingly not designed by designers, but by architects who know exactly where these faucets and bathtubs are “attached”. "Firms like Agape and others, ”notes Inna Buzdalina,“ give the architect the freedom to choose. Bath can now be any: and round, and rectangular, and in the shape of an ellipse. "Guess the texture In addition to the desire to make bathrooms, similar to black and white photographs of bathrooms (a combination of gray, white, black with small patches of red), it is difficult not to pay attention to another trend. The tile has ceased to be a background, it has become an independent element of the decor. Accordingly, the bet is made either on unusual textures (tiles for rust, wood, smooth mosaic tiles, covered with glass, so that the relief surface is visible and at the same time imperceptible), or for unusual combinations (here the most fashionable trend is to show the contrast between the cold surface of the tile and bright, lively, glare Murano glass).