From our favourite mosaic tile designers comes the Bisazza Collection for 2014. With a fantastic range of designs and new tile concepts, the 2014 Collection is a delight for the senses.
“Frozen Garden” is a collection by Marcel Wanders which celebrates the monochrome style of black and white. The hexagonal tiles in diamond and flower shapes are designed to be freely teamed to transform the wall into a tactile and uneven fabric. Extremely trendy, the Frozen Garden collection is ideal for contemporary interiors.
Of his collection, Marcel Wanders says: “It only takes one crystal to grow a Frozen Garden. Plant one with loving care, and watch Frozen Garden unfold before your eyes. Organic and wild, glass and ceramic crystals transform walls into tactile and textured universes. Let go and run wild in a garden of your own.”
Designer Paola Navone, who has worked extensively with Bisazza in the past, has contributed two very different yet both equally eye-catching patterns – “Affresco” and “Halo Halo”.
Affresco is a modern interpretation of the traditional floral décor. It features a combination of geometric and floral motifs with surrealistic colours lending the design a bright, yet slightly pixelated, finish. Traditional and modern design merge beautifully in this pattern with the large, brightly-coloured flowers jumping off the wall and into the room. Navone says the flowers “magically surface as if they had been cleaned from the dust of time” and likens the collection to “an ironic décollage”.
Halo Halo is a modern style that is strongly rooted in pop and graffiti art with striking shades of black and white. Nine unique graphic motifs can be arranged to your liking, making it easy to customise the space and create an individual piece of “art”. In describing his design, Navone says the tiles are “soft, undefined graphic signs [that are] perhaps pictograms by some distant civilisation”.
My favourite would have to be the Frozen Garden collection – I love how the design enhances the basic black and basic white to give it an added dimension and a depth that you don’t get with a flat-faced tile.
What’s your favourite?
