#Product Trends
Casalgrande Padana porcelain stoneware for the hospitality and retail sectors
The hospitality, hotel and retail sectors are among those called upon to respond to new needs and changing requirements.
Italy is the home of fashion, art and culture, so it’s no surprise that the future of the country’s hotel sector will be strongly marked by design. This applies both to furnishings and to the design of spaces that are not only attractive and eye-catching, but also modular and flexible, allowing them to adapt to a variety of needs and to offer a fully customised hospitality experience. In the light of the environmental emergencies and climate changes under way, the hospitality sector will also be called on to use sustainable, eco-friendly materials, and to design buildings that seek energy-efficient ways to reduce CO2 emissions.
Significant changes are also under way in retail: the digital revolution is increasingly turning brick-and-mortar stores into “retail 5.0” stores, with the growing implementation of technological solutions such as touch-screen POS systems that can also be used as sales support tools along the aisles, digital shop windows and tablets for assisted selling and answering specific queries about products and availability.
The future of retail will also be characterised by a mix of offline and online tools, made possible by the integration of the most recent technologies, which will bring the strengths of the digital shopping experience into bricks-and-mortar stores and vice versa; e-commerce systems will enable customers to order goods online and collect them in-store. Stores are thus set to offer an increasingly sensory purchasing experience, focused on entertainment and storytelling, and the retail approach will increasingly be about communicating the values and style of a particular brand.
This new scenario will require a rethink of retail spaces, which will need to fulfil the strategic role of physical stores and attract customers, meeting safety requirements while at the same time guaranteeing a pleasant purchasing, sharing and social experience.
Stylish and functional, porcelain stoneware has played a key role for many years in hospitality and hotel settings. It is versatile, hard-wearing, hygienic, safe and low-maintenance, as well as long-lasting and fire-resistant, making it ideal for bringing added value to the purchasing experience. Casalgrande Padana stoneware tiles are the ideal choice for shops, boutiques, lounge bars, restaurants, hotels, resorts, swimming pools, spas, saunas, wellness areas and all kinds of commercial spaces. They can be used in both indoor and outdoor areas, given their resistance to wear and tear and to high footfall. They are also beautiful to look at, making them the perfect surfaces to show off all kinds of retail spaces and complementing the rest of the décor.
Casalgrande Padana offers a wide variety of solutions able to turn ceramic surfaces into an integrated, advanced system able to respond to the most demanding requests in terms of architectural quality, performance levels, durability and sustainability.
We have more than 60 concrete-effect, coloured, wood-effect, marble-effect, metal-effect and stone-effect porcelain stoneware collections that are the perfect choice for all kinds of uses in the retail and hospitality sectors: from high-footfall areas to wellness facilities such as spas and indoor and outdoor swimming pools. A rich variety of textures, tones, sizes (from 8.2x25 cm brick tiles up to the large 120x120 cm, 120x240 cm and 160x320 cm options) and thicknesses offers numerous colour and design solutions to create exceptionally versatile spaces.
