Indoor tile SABBIA

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Compattais a unique collection of porcelain stoneware slabs, created using the very latest ceramic product techniques, in which the “profoundly ancient” dialogues with the “state of the art”. The effects of compacted raw earth and of the ancient rammed earth construction technique are presented from several different viewpoints. Sabbia and Argilla evoke the dense, powdery intermingling of dust and grainy muds in warm shades, which turn cool and grey in the Limo and Ghiaia colors. The large slabs, on the other hand, reveal the sinuous stratification of layers of earth of uniform color typical of the rammed earth building method and are available in the warm Pisé Sabbia and Pisé Melange and cool Pisé Limo and Pisé Ghiaia shades. The combination of these patterns evolves into the concept of Pisé Inserti, more slabs of immense decorative impact, generated by the two-dimensional criss-crossing of exquisite, rounded geometrical forms: the designer combines the natural earthen shades with apparently random curved lines that evoke the uneven trapezia with rounded corners used by Gio Ponti. Compatta’s potential is further enhanced by three-dimensional subjects of varying shapes, which can be built up into mesh-backed mosaics to create sculptural forms on walls.