Archive of Ariostea News and Events

Club Azzurro: a stone cavern for well-being

Concentrating on the choice of soft parameters, the firm D73 (Vismara and Viganò) has re-qualified a sports centre by including a spa area among its services and characterising it with high-tech stone surfaces by Ariostea enhanced by grazing light from spotlights.
Marco Vismara and Andrea Viganò have a perceptive approach to projects for rooms and focus their attention on the way in which people interact with the place in which they “live”, in the more complete sense of the word. They pay special attention to projects having to do with wellness in which the correct perception of the surroundings is essential for creating a condition of wellbeing. They tackled the project for re-qualifying the Club Azzurro in Gazzada Schianno, in the province of Varese, starting out from the image and from the figurative references that the user would like to find when seeking physical and mental wellbeing.

OASIS of THE SEAS, the world's biggest cruise ship, has chosen ARIOSTEA

With its 18 decks and 2700 rooms and suites, Oasis of the Seas is the world’s biggest and most revolutionary cruise ship, a splendid floating city capable of hosting more than 5400 passengers.
Commissioned by the US cruise operator Royal Caribbean and built in Finland by Aker Yards of Turku (now STX Europe), this masterpiece of naval architecture was launched in December 2008 and made its maiden voyage exactly one year later.

After years of planning, study and calculation involving the world’s greatest experts, the vessel, considered an unrivalled masterpiece of innovation, is now carrying thousands of tourists to the most beautiful destinations in the Caribbean.

This marvel of the seas cost more than 1 billion 200 million dollars to build and features 7 enormous theme areas amazing passengers with their majestic interiors and attractions. These include the Boardwalk, an enchanting open-air walkway built to look like a Mediterranean village; the Aquatheater, the world’s first seagoing amphitheatre, for water shows; Central Park, a spectacular garden inspired by the park of the same name in Manhattan, featuring luxuriant tropical plants and quiet pathways. And finally, the Royal Promenade, at the heart of the ship, with its shops, restaurants and entertainments, a true high fashion luxury shopping and entertainment district.

11th Ceramics, Tile & Sanitary Ware China

Ariostea is pleased to invite you to the “11th Ceramics, Tile & Sanitary Ware China” event at Shanghai New International Expo Center,
from 29th March to 1st April 2010.

Booth 3F08
Hall W3

Surface Design Show 2010
London - UK

Ariostea is pleased to invite you to 2010 Surface Design Show: the exclusive World Wide event in United Kingdom for indoor and outdoor surface solutions of the modern buildings’ design.

from February 16th to 18th, 2010
Business Design Center
London - UK

BOOTH 40

MEZZANINE LEVEL

Opening Iris Group boutique Ariostea
Paris, February 4th, 2010

We’re in the 8th arrondissement, a well-known upper-class neighbourhood in Paris with its Grands Boulevards, Champs-Élysées, Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile and L'Opera, to mention only a few of the places best known to visitors. On February 4 2010 we will open a new showroom in this prestigious setting, in the central Rue de la Pépinière.

Duccio Grassi Architects of Reggio Emilia designed a showroom for Ariostea based on the concept of the prestigious Paris “boutique” to present Ariostea’s most exclusive collections in France.
The showroom is set up on the basis of an elegant and apparently simple style, in white and grey without any superfluous materials. The elements used to display products are sliding retractable and niche panels, labstations and built-in chests of drawers, all designed to be elegant and practical.

Iris Boutique Paris
Rue de la Pépinière n.27, Parigi - Francia
Inaugurazione 4 Febbraio 2010 ore 19.00 

Made Expo 2010
Milan

Ariostea is pleased to invite you to the International event for PROJECTS ARCHITECTURE and BUILDING at MADEexpo Fair in Milan, from 3 to 6 February 2010.

BOOTH 11

HALL 3

Elbepark
Dresda - Germany

Location: Dresda - Germania
Design: WMB Architekten - Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH
Materials used: Nero Marquinia Extra, Verde Brasil, Nero Marquinia, Rovere Chiaro, Rovere Biondo, Rovere Moka

Dresden’s ElbePark, one of the busiest shopping centres in the capital city of Saxony, symbol of a successful blend of shopping and entertainment, has been subjected to an effective redevelopment and renewal project with a particular emphasis on surfaces and floors. Ariostea supplied the flooring materials, creating designs and rosettes to underline the entrance area and passageways and to mark routes in the shopping centre.

CONTRACTWORLD
Hannover 2010

Ariostea is glad to inform you we will be present al CONTRACTWORLD, the International congress exhibition for architecture and interior design, in Hannover, from January 16th to 19th, 2010. We will await for your kind visit to present you Ariostea new products, at booth S07, hall 004.

Sankt Annen Galerie
Brandenburg (Germany)

Location: Brandenburg - Germany
Design: Pechtold Arch. + Witzel+Partner Ingenieurbüro
Materials used: Rovere Antico - IRIDIUM - Nero Marquinia - Crema Marfil

The newly opened Sankt Annen Galerie shopping centre in central Brandenburg features prestigious materials in its interior dècor.
Designed by Pechtold Arch. + Witzel+Partner Ingenieurbüro architectural studios, the new Sankt Annen Galerie shopping centre has 14,500 square metres of display space fitting harmoniously into the historic centre of the town of Brandenburg.
The project features carefully chosen materials in the external facing and interiors. The elegance, luminosity and resistance of the flooring is a result of the choice of Ariostea materials: a 2500 square metre supply including about 50 rosettes, carpets and decorations made to define shoppersí routes using the sophisticated water jet cutting technique to add prestige to the floors in this high traffic area.
The complicated installation of ARIOSTEA materials has been duly cared from the Company Arcadia Fliesen und Naturstein GmbH.

New Nusco Porte showroom

Location: Nola (NA) - Italy
Design: Arch. Nicola Litto
Materials used: Universe - Night Blue

Nusco Porte’s new showroom is a high impact space which attracts visitors’ attention and makes a great impression, underlining the quality of the Group’s products on display in a simple setting while at the same time attracting attention to the view outside through the glass walls all around the building.
The biggest challenge architect Nicola Litto faced was overcoming the “usual” idea of the exhibition space, underlining the product and its particular qualities without falling into the trap of banality, creating a particular elegant, prestigious setting that demonstrates how the company itself is evolving in its designs, internal organisation, and above all ability to create products free of aesthetic and dimensional constraints.