Innovative Slabs
prestigious and impressive slabs that confirm the supremacy of Ariostea in the most sophisticated innovation.
From our research laboratories, from the studies undertaken in these years on the most advanced technologies, a new generation of Marmi High-Tech, extremely revolutionary for size and performance, was born.
News
New Ariostea High-Tech Woods for 2010: the perfection of technology and nature.
10-JUN-10
Ultra-fine solid porcelain stoneware reproducing the best natural oak woods, with all the performance of the best porcelain stoneware for heavy-duty floor and wall coverings.
Ambition and technology in four brand new sizes: 15x120, 20x120, 30x120 and 10x60. Made strictly out of ground solid porcelain stoneware, they are Ariostea’s new wood finish porcelain stoneware tiles with their highly ambivalent character expressing both traditional taste and a forward-looking attitude.
These new masterpieces of solid porcelain stoneware add two new types of oak to Ariostea’s already famous High-Tech Woods collection
Projects showcase
The forms of nature for the baths at St. Martins
10-JUN-10
The spa at St. Martins is a project that fits into its natural surroundings, Seewinkel Nature Park in Burgenland, Austria, making its structure opening onto its surroundings into an intense homage to the landscape around it. In one of the area’s many hot spring swamps, characterised by sensational colours and a great variety of rare plants and animals, Holzbauer und Partner have built their project on a tongue of earth projecting out into the centre of a lake: designed as a spiral starting out from a core consisting of the swimming pool – the heart of all the activities taking place around it – it extends to embrace the landscape, which becomes part of the project itself. Used as both a spa and fitness centre, commonly associated nowadays in line with the trend towards simultaneous treatment of body and soul, the centre is well organised thanks to this big spiral or snail shape, which we immediately associate with the natural, archaic worlds of land and water, and turns out to be a form serving attentive distribution of the different spaces and activities organised at the centre.
Paris Boutique - Interview with architect Duccio Grassi
31-MAR-10
February 4 saw the successful inauguration of the Ariostea Boutique on Paris’ central Rue de la Pepiniere: a particularly prestigious showroom presenting Ariostea’s most exclusive collections to the city of Paris and all of France.
Conceived and designed by DUCCIO GRASSI ARCHITECTS of Reggio Emilia, the highly refined Boutique is a masterpiece of order, apparent simplicity, cleanliness and completeness.
Let’s see how Duccio Grassi designed the showroom spaces and the Boutique, in the architect’s own words.
