Ceramic Trends 2018-2019

The ceramic trends for 2018 and 2019 follow the path they opened during last year's trade fairs: risky products where colour and decoration are once again in evidence. On the one hand, all the products stand out, whether small or large format, where the material is the protagonist: marbles, granites, large veined stones, flecked.. It is a good time for raw and also polished materials that are strengthened thanks to the growth of the worktops and projects sector. On the other hand, ceramics continues to gain ground as a major design element of interior design through tiles that align with the latest decorative trends. The midcentury style or the new art deco that have been protagonists in the latest design trends in Europe find their ceramic answers in the latest trends.1 Light Marbled

The Light Marbled trend is characterized by a series of mottled surfaces and subtle veins that give it a clearly materialic hue where the product becomes the plot of space.As a reaction to the minimalism of recent years, we see how these surfaces full of elements, far from hiding the product, expose it, highlighting its materiality. Coatings, home textiles, carpets... become lifelike coatings with a clearly natural inspiration, standing out over all materials the stones as an element of inspiration. Compared to past seasons, there is a considerable reduction in fragments inside the surface, with the marbling and puntillist effect as a highlight of the trend.

Splash – Love Tiles Jasper from Yonoh - Harmony by Peronda

Pepa Casado

Different terrazzoes of cement Huguet Mallorca huguetmallorca.com Marmorea2 y Terrazzo – Ceramica Fioranese

2 Tile déco

Influenced by the latest trends in the interior design sector, highlights a product line for the habitat where decoration becomes a central theme. The trend Tile Déco looks back to rescue with a renewed look some classics of previous decades. Without a doubt, the ornamental component of interiors and the products that populate them are gaining in importance. Destacan con especial relevancia la recuperación del art noveau y art déco de los años 20 y 30, pero también el movimiento arts & crafts inglés. Marquetería de madera y mármol, metales, cristal, elementos orgánicos y geométricos con inspiraciones exóticas, son algunos de los elementos de diseño destacados.

Marble Collection – Bisazza Treasure Tobaco from Ariana,

Blocks Hazel by WIDE & STYLE - ABK

3 Dark & watercolorDegraded, shadowy and watercoloured effects on surfaces to create spaces with decadent air, aged, but verysophisticated. The Dark & Watercolor trend is particularly interesting within the contract channel and explores the theatrical dimension of ceramics. Large format products that work as visual games where figures and backgrounds, shadows and reflections are confused. The predominant colours are neutral, grey

and black tones, which are combined with cold white and blue tones that aim to create dreamlike atmospheres.

Storie ceramics by Giorgia Zanellatto and Daniele Borotto for Cedit \ Restaurant Enigma by RCR Arquitectes – Neolith

Grand Carpet by Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel for Marazzi

4 Brutalist StyleThis is a trend with raw, rough looking products and geology as one of the keys to inspiration. The material passion is translated into monolithic proposals, with large geological surfaces. Ceramics presents proposals reproducing stone materials with a high risk character, both for their graphics and their formats. This trend responds to a quasi-fetish phenomenon towards crude matter and large blocks of cement and stones, with fragments, volcanic stones, igneous rocks such as granite.

Supreme in the Connections Collection 02 - 41zero42 / Large formats by Fiandre

Fuoriformato / London Design Fair 2017, Swedish Design Pavilion, Old Truman Brewery

5 Restore materials

Exceeding the era of the great firm architectural projects, we look for projects that work on what there is, projects and buildings characterized by a practical, sober and restrained architecture. Far from those mega-projects carried out by great architects during the previous period of the crisis. Among them we find not onlynew building projects, but also rehabilitation projects. An event that highlights this trend is the change in the selection criteria in the Pritzer Awards, which in recent awards have recognized smaller projects but working on social change from architecture. They highlight the ceramic products that claim their material nature and the earth itself with simple but versatile designs that aim to explore creativity through the project rather than through the product.

Tiled surfaces and vaulted ceilings add character to Bonba Studio's Barcelona flat / Wine cellar Mont-reas by Jorge Vidal Arquitectos and Víctor Rahola.

6 Mid-Century Colors

The trend Mid-Century Colors sets the starring note used with highly decorative level and with a clearinfluence of the 50s and 60s. In the space, furniture products are combined in noble materials in which woodof dark tones stands out.Flat, vibrant colors that drink directly from American markets and fit intomidcentury decorative trends, with sophisticated decorative touches. Proposals are presented with ageometric and linear graphic repertoire where the coatings are destined to become the protagonists ofspace.

Corrispondenza by Dimore Studio – Ceramica Bardelli

Iso by Mut Design – Harmony by Peronda Rockwell – Bisazza Collection

Appiani – Metrica