Luxury ceramic floor tiles. Making the right choice from the latest new products
The floor covering is one of a room’s key features, especially if it’s of high quality and intended to add value of the design of the space it furnishes.
Luxury ceramic floor tiles can provide support in projects of this kind, reinforcing any subsequent choice while guaranteeing durability, reliability and strength.
Which products should you choose and how should you select them from the latest new offerings?
If you’re intending to create luxury floors, errors in assessing the solutions available could annul their aesthetic and functional potential.
So it’s important to have a clear understanding of the recently launched alternatives to give you a full view of the different options and enable you to find and assess products more quickly.
Luxury ceramics: fashion meets evergreen surfaces
A designer living-room, a marble-effect master bathroom or another room where decorating requirements demand luxury ceramics? There are a variety of options, from fashion to evergreen surfaces.
Without forgetting the desired outcomes in terms of style, beauty and convenience, the opportunities available today offer ultra-realistic textures and patterns with outstanding finishes and aesthetics, able to create exclusive looks and highly customisable to suit any kind of inspiration, even the most eclectic.
Wood, marble, natural stone and colourful, versatile brick-effect tiles: there are no limits to creativity.
Luxury floor coverings. Opulence or minimalism?
After assessing the various alternatives, luxury floor coverings require more in-depth consideration of their merits and stylistic potentials.
The basic choice between opulence and minimalism is unavoidable. And while on the one hand the maximalist approach seems to have come back into fashion, on the other minimalism has never lost its supremacy, as reflected in the latest trend for quiet luxury.
But for a better understanding of what your project really needs and how to approach it, you need to look beyond the usual commonplaces.
Materials such as marble-effect porcelain stoneware have developed new creative applications for designing even revolutionary interiors that abandon the usual concepts of opulence and ostentation.
At the same time, wood-effect floors, always been associated with minimalism, have found a place in other, more unusual, game-changing approaches such as the industrial green style.
Marble-effect porcelain stoneware floors: evoking the past with timeless luxury
Marble-effect porcelain stoneware has established a well-deserved reputation, based on its ever-more realistic resemblance to the inspiration material and its imperturbable strength.
Like their wall-covering equivalents, marble-effect porcelain stoneware floor tiles are surfaces that remain unchanged over time, able to withstand mechanical stress, UV radiation and wear with no alteration in their impeccable appearance.
In practice, they provide the best of both worlds: the classic, immortal beauty of nature together with the durability and easy installation and care of porcelain stoneware.
These benefits are combined with versatility and the many looks they are able to create.
Nowadays, their variety of vein patterns, colours and undertones gives them potential to meet all architectural requirements, supporting the most classical combinations while inspiring new, unusual pairings.
In the Scultorea collection, for example, the marble effect can support styles from striking opulence to clinical minimalism.
This material’s expressive adaptability can create added value in every interior design project, providing luxury ceramic floor and wall coverings that redefine every kind of application: from luxury marble bathrooms for residential or hotel use to minimalist living rooms in severe mid-century style.
Luxury is ... The beauty of wood, the performance of porcelain stoneware
There’s no doubt that wood-effect floor coverings are amongst the favourite luxury ceramic solutions, since they combine the warm beauty of the natural inspiration surfaces with the performance of porcelain stoneware, the most highly resistant of materials.
In fact, while wood of natural origins is vulnerable to scuffing, attack by disease and pests, damage by water and heat or wear, none of these factors applies to porcelain stoneware.
This type of floor covering offers indisputable benefits, as it doesn’t degrade and is immune to damp and thermal shock, making it ideal even for high-stress environments like the bathroom and kitchen.
But there’s more.
The latest new wood-effect porcelain stonewares include surfaces with ultra-realistic appearance and texture, like the just-launched Elisir Touch.
In this collection, sinuous vein patterns and charming knots are clearly noticeable to the eyes and fingertips, in warm, deep shades that range from more ambery moods like Malto, Miele and Whisky to colours with a darker, more sophisticated allure like the Ebanite variant.
All 4 of these options are ideal for creating a luxury designer living-room and enable immense creative versatility, thanks to the variety of sizes available:
- from traditional plank tiles of 20x120 cm
- to the innovative 20x180 cm
- to the petit strip tile options in size 7.5x60 cm, for creating exquisite chevron compositions in one or two colours.
This makes Elisir Touch the luxury floor covering solution that combines style and sustainability, thanks to a process that unites the durability of porcelain stoneware with the beauty of the wood effect.
Natural-colour stone and brick-effect. Luxury ceramic floor coverings rediscover antique craftsmanship.
The beauty of the earth and the recovery of antique craft processes constitute another feature of the latest trends in luxury ceramic floor coverings.
Starting from the designer natural stone effect, a firm favourite for designing indoor spaces with adjoining outdoor areas, porcelain stoneware’s technical superiority and durability make it the surface of choice for every type of project, especially where luxury ceramics are involved.
The new Arkigeo collection is an outstanding example.
A symphony of nature and elegance, which celebrates the earth as the origin of beauty, merging the authenticity of sedimentary stones with an exquisite attention to details.
The result is a new experience that makes any interior exclusive and guarantees a continual equilibrium between indoor and outdoor areas through a colour assortment ranging from Arena to Carbone.
Reconciling tradition and future, the colours of nature combined with the master craftsmanship of antique cement mixes are given a fresh identity by Longarine Brio.
Long bricks in bright, innovative hues, which evoke finely ground pigments inspired by the natural colours of bushes and flowers in the Fiordaliso, Mirto, Ginepro, Agave and Betulla shades.
The original size and distinctive features of the Longarine Brio long bricks make every project an opportunity for personal expression, for setting your inventiveness free with a vast range of installation layouts - vertical, horizontal, straight, herringbone, chevron and many more and giving individuality to every interior, even those with curved or irregular shapes, with easy adaptation to even the most unpredictable forms.
Marca Corona leads the way amongst luxury ceramics brands with exquisite solutions able to make every interior truly unique.
Its offering is achieved through care, passion, design and technology, with an entirely Made in Italy quality grounded in a centuries-old tradition that is still evolving and improving day by day.
Let our luxury wall and floor tile solutions inspire your projects.
