Casalgrande Padana company News and Trends items

The redevelopment of Budapest’s Szent Gellért school by Arkad Terv - Csilla Kutlik is the perfect expression of the building’s chromatic and textural evolution. Colourful porcelain stoneware tiles adorn the eye-catching floor creating beautiful geometric patterns and bringing the charming ambience of the past into the future. This choice was inspired by the original lat...

How to furnish a Zen-style home Typical elements of a home furnished in Japanese style are large, open spaces, inviting areas conducive to meditation, tidy rooms, continuous references to nature, simple yet functional furnishings, large windows, soft, relaxing colours, natural materials and floor lamps. Interior design with a Zen-style inspiration focuses predominantly...

The project, entrusted to the Cantone Ortoleva architecture firm with Giuseppe Motta, involved the construction of a swimming pool between a long-established palm grove and a garden of orange trees on the Catania plain. The palm grove leads through an Italian-style garden to the swimming pool, protected by a perimeter wall, while the door leads onto the surrounding farml...

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 hospitali...

Within an area in the city of Bologna undergoing an urban redevelopment process is this new Hera plant for the production of electrical and thermal energy. Since the area is not predominantly industrial, a reduction in the height of the buildings was required, as well as a restyling of the shapes and colours of the whole construction, in order for it to blend smoothly in...

Featuring leaves, branches, trees, and flowers, stylised or otherwise, on fabrics and wall coverings, and perfect in any setting, plant-inspired patterns are a key decorative element for living spaces and the star feature in organic style. In its latest guise, this style features a palette of earthy shades, from beige and soft, velvety-smooth greys through to sage and gr...

The Gendai Wood wood-effect collection is the result of research and experimentation, an advanced production process, and a fine selection of raw materials. The collection draws inspiration from Yakisugi or Shou Sugi Ban (焼杉板), which means “charred cedar board” in Japanese. The Shou Sugi Ban technique was developed in 14th-century Japan when Sugi (cedar wood) was cut int...

Casalgrande Padana’s Le Ville collection gives a modern twist to Venetian terrazzo tiles, among the most renowned and popular Italian creations throughout the centuries. This new porcelain stoneware tile collection is available with six patterns in different colours, which allow for endless combinations, five sizes (20x20, 30x60, 60x60, 60x120, and 120x120 cm), two thick...

This brings a new colour renaissance to the home, shaped by smooth combinations and vibrant notes. Deep, silent or shrill, soft, fruity, spicy or sharp; pleasing tones ready to awaken the emotions. Variations of colour, vibrant, sophisticated light effects and classy, contrasting tones spring to life on the porcelain stoneware tiles in the Atelier and Brickworks – Nuanc...

Squared and rectified, the concrete-effect porcelain stoneware tiles in the Metropolis collection come in eight shades (Almond, Graphite, Greige, Grey, Mud, Sand, Silver and White), with a natural surface and a non-slip surface for outdoors, in eight different formats (from the classic 30x60 cm and 45x90 cm, to the large 60x60 cm, 60x120 cm, 90x90 cm, 90x180 cm, 120x120 ...

New technological requirements and social changes have transformed domestic spaces, which now have to accommodate other aspects of our lives, including work, ensuring wellbeing and practicality. A home designed merely as the place to return to after work, focusing on the bedroom area, doesn’t ensure wellbeing. That’s why it’s critical to reorganise space and furnishing ...

The industrial chic design style appeared during the ‘70s in the United States. During that time, abandoned factories, warehouses, and industrial buildings started being converted into residential spaces, meeting the pressing need for low-cost housing. Today, industrial chic is an iconic trend, especially among the younger generations. This modern, balanced and essential...

Flatmates is a residential project located in Station F, the world’s biggest start-up incubator, the brainchild of entrepreneur Xavier Niel, which was also designed by Wilmotte & Associés Architects. Situated in the former Hall Freyssinet, a railway depot originally built in 1920, Station F has a surface area of 34,000 square metres, and is home to 1,000 digital start-up...

Long-lasting and exquisitely beautiful, just like marble, which the ancient Greeks called “shining stone”, the new Marmosmart porcelain stoneware collection by Casalgrande Padana offers a new take on the veining patterns, shine and marvellous colours typical of quarried marble, in which each tile is literally unique. The Marmosmart collection broadens the range of marble...

Casalgrande Padana has drawn inspiration from the allure and the most beautiful images of stones, with their inexhaustible power and luminous beauty that highlights traces of memory anchored to the past. We have used this inspiration to create a wide range of stone-effect porcelain stoneware tiles featuring technological innovation and sophisticated design, made up of 21...

What is dry interlocking installation? The Ars Ratio dry interlocking installation by Casalgrande Padana involves bonding each ceramic tile to a support and to a special high-resistance perimeter edge, composed - depending on the intended use - of reinforced polystyrene or plaster reinforced with glass fibres. The end result is a finished floor with slim standard 3 mm ...

A home in the countryside has always offered a precious getaway immersed in nature, surrounded by wide-open green spaces, able to create a romantic atmosphere that delights the senses while evoking a sense of relaxation and inner peace: in the collective imagination, wide verandas and spacious courtyards, beamed ceilings, warm, soft lighting, large windows for enjoying t...

The invention of the exclusive new bioactive, certified, eco-compatible Bios Ceramics® range represents a key step forward in Casalgrande Padana’s research and development in the field of innovations in ceramics for architecture, suitable for any kind of application both indoors and outdoors. The range effectively combines anti-bacterial and self-cleaning characteristics...

This exclusive range of bioactive, porcelain stoneware ceramic tiles akes use of the anti-bacterial properties of titanium dioxide, a natural material that gives off no harmful emissions and in fact significantly reduces the amount of harmful substances in the air in both indoor and outdoor spaces, thus making the atmosphere healthier and removing bad odours. L’esclus...

We’re in an isolated area, away from urban centres, on the magical and mythological island of Malta, where you can admire a beautiful horizon over the sea. The functional, aesthetic, and energy redevelopment of this single-family home and its exterior spaces was entrusted to Studio Peralta Design & Consulting. The spectacular view of the sea suggested the additio...

The Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia studio won first prize in the "façade cladding" category at the 11th edition of the Grand Prix with the "Gardens of Gabriel" project. Particular attention was paid to the choice of ceramic material used for decorating the 1,000 square metres of cladding for the façades: Diamante Q30 by Casalgrande Padana. For the interior flooring, the colour...

Casalgrande Padana’s Creative Centres are open to industry professionals and go beyond the traditional idea of a showroom. They are more like a crossroad between ceramics and projects, combining the exhibition aspect with communication, technical information, and a series of initiatives in the field of architecture, design, and production. The first Creative Centre wa...

The expansion of this university campus presents itself as a complex architectural organism from which the unusual ellipse-shaped volume of the auditorium and its envelope entirely clad with bespoke three-dimensional ceramic tiles stand out. An unconventional application with a strong character where the diamond-shaped porcelain stoneware modules that cover the “cocoon” ...

This residential complex is an integral part of an important urban redevelopment intervention. It stands out for its original volumetric solution of the façade, where ceramics beautifully blends with other materials (wood, plaster, fibre cement) through its colour scheme and surface finishes, which highlight and split the morphology and articulation of the blocks. The dy...

Sapphire is a multi-storey building characterised by a particularly complex shape which seems to deft the entire Cartesian coordinate system and the laws of gravity themselves, in true Libeskind fashion. Like a sapphire, the building is a sturdy, multi-sided thing, gleaming as it emerges from the cityscape. The colour of the ceramic covering even evokes the azure blue t...

With great attention invested in planning the volumes and the locations of the doors and windows, the building is characterised by its mono-chrome cladding in porcelain stoneware tiles of differing sizes, which are laid here using the ventilated curtain wall technique. Designed as a monolith extending up from the earth, the complex employs a contemporary compositional st...

Try our design tool and create photorealistic renderings of the plans and spaces you have in mind. Creative 3D is completely free and you can use it conveniently via the Casalgrande Padana website: simply register and start creating spaces, wall decorations and flooring right now, inserting customised objects and features along the way. When you’re done, save everythin...

An excellent structural restoration project on a significant modern work, completed using contemporary materials and cutting-edge application techniques in order to effectively recreate the constitutive elements of the original architecture. Used for the church flooring, the porcelain stoneware tiles – which are carefully selected and expertly adapted to suit the existin...

A sophisticated restructuring project of an old covered market, where the existing structure is enhanced by the ceramic flooring. This gives the original tiling a contemporary feel via the almost surgical use of small-format components. The graphic pattern and colour combinations have been meticulously selected, with the layout creating a web of connections between ...

The architectural and technological quality, paired with the scale and importance of the works presented by the 5+1AA studio, are testament to the depth of the collaboration launched by the designers and company to devise and develop innovative solutions packed with content. This journey of research and experimentation starts from the consolidated relationship between th...

This project expertly interprets the concept of the home with a pitched roof – in accordance with building regulations – with a markedly contemporary approach. There is an unusual, experimental solution adopted for the ceramic cladding, which entirely covers each vertical and inclined surface to create a monolithic, mono-material and monochrome architectural style – one ...

Installed near to the Casalgrande Padana production facility on two roundabouts situated on the Pedemontana route linking Casalgrande and Sassuolo, the two installations make up a monumental structure of notable architectural merit and symbolic value, creating a sort of “East Access Door” to the Emilian ceramics district. Once again, the project was entrusted to one o...

Coloured throughout in the same shades as the surface, these slabs stand out for a unique metallic effect in the finishing layer, where the shine, texture and colours make it look exactly like a metal sheet. A modern decorative effect, firmly targeted to contemporary living areas or contract projects, where the combination of the surface texture with a glossy finish off...

Made with cutting-edge digital technology applied to stoneware, the new Marmoker range takes the usual materials and adds the shades, veins, transparency, texture, shine and precious colours of marble, while the performance standards are even better than those of the real thing. The result of in-depth research into design, materials and formal features aiming to achiev...