Four different colour bases. Four combinable graphics. Two shades: warm, cold. These are the factors of the Type-32 equation Beyond matter! This is the cry that springs to mind when seeing the Type-32 collection, the new project by Diego Grandi for Lea Ceramiche. And while the concept starts from matter, it transcends it, transporting it into an abstract golden ratio where invention adds greater meaning to the word decoration, rewriting a new yet familiar language like the first four letters of the Greek alphabet: alpha, beta, gamma, delta.
As often happens at Lea Ceramiche, this project is total innovation. Starting with the size. Rather than working on standard sizes, this new range uses the Slimtech long slat (20 x 200 cm) in the new 5 mm thickness.
The idea comes from the overlapping of two layers. The first, more material, is a screen print that plays on the idea of verisimilitude, reproducing a wood. The second is more graphic, it is a decoration based on the reiteration of the oblique line, in four different patterns. The combination of several slats creates the typical zig-zag effect reminiscent of traditional French herringbone floors.
It is an original and extremely versatile range: four different graphics, available in two shades, cold and warm, overlapping four different colour bases: snow, honey, coffee, vintage. Many combinations of layers can be obtained, the choice lying in the colours of the woods, the grains, the shades.
The possible associations belong to the world of mathematics: flexibility becomes an equation that describes the versatility of a project with the strength of a system.
Inspirations run from art to graphics. But also touch on illusion and memory. As in certain dreams, or rather certain visions, this has become something other than itself, reinterpreted as a pure image through a contemporary language that transforms matter into an image, while from a line the classic decoration becomes a potentially infinite surface. Practically a large carpet.
Laminated stoneware with a thickness of 5mm
Slimtech 5Plus with the new thickness of 5mm, completes the Laminated Stoneware project of Lea Ceramiche.
It is now possible to use this product in new areas: from commercial and technical spaces subject to intensive wear & tear, such as shopping malls, airports, public sanitary areas and the lobbies of public buildings.
The new thickness allows new surface treatment processes, reconfirming the constant evolution of Slimtech and the quest for increasingly advanced technical properties.
The greater thickness makes it possible to achieve surface treatments such as mirror polish, multi-level engraving and different material finishes and textures, which were until now unthinkable with the thickness of 3.5mm.
Slimtech 5Plus is presented for the first time in the wood-effect version and in two new collections: Wood-Stock Slimtech available in 6 colours (snow wood, nut wood, cream wood, honey wood, vintage wood and coffee wood) and 4 new sizes (33x300cm; 20x200cm; 20x150cm and 20x100cm), with astounding texture and visual effects; Type-32 designed by Diego Grandi. Large modular sizes, a new finish which appeals to an increasingly wide and diversified public; new experiments on ceramics which open up to new and more and more options of use, such as in the contract sector.
Technology and beauty which complete the range of the most innovative slim line ceramic produced in recent years.
