Designed by Italian artist Veronica Tommasin, the new collection is unique in its use of handcrafted glass mosaic and agglomerate materials for the coordinated covering of walls and floors. It is also exclusive in its selection of monochromatic patterns.
The inspiration for the range’s design was drawn from floral motifs and geometric forms. With a choice of dozens of different elegant patterns and formats, Best Collection offers designers and consumer a variety of choices for expressing their style and creating decorative backdrops that merge different tones, textures, shapes and materials.
The range fuses authentic Italian glass mosaic tiles that are variously shaped by hand, with recycled glass agglomerate panels, which are then waterjet-cut to produce exclusive composite patterns. Each material brings its distinctive finish and technical characteristics to the design palette, in dining and drawing rooms, bathrooms and wet areas, kitchen and utility rooms, reception areas, and even outside patios and swimming pools.
Best Collection artistic mosaics take three different floral forms – roses, elegant calla lilies and the aquatic water lily – and are executed in 1cm x 1cm micro mosaics, in various predefined modular sizes. Selected ‘artistic’ versions feature hand-cut tiles to create curves and uneven edges, adding an artisan dimension to the design. Colours are mostly black, grey, white and neutral tones of brown and sepia, selected by Veronica from Trend’s 1 x 1 Vitreo, Brillante, Shining and Feel ranges, with selected patterns featuring Aureo 24ct white gold tesserae.
The same colours are adopted for the geometric mosaic modules, influenced by the straight, clean lines of geometry and the curved forms of musical instruments and notations. Module sizes vary to give different interpretations of scale.
Trend employs modern waterjet-cutting techniques to apply much the same designs to 6.7mm thick agglomerate sheeting, bringing the decorative theme down onto floors, across to furniture and partition cladding, and an alternative texture and look to walls. Modular sheet sizes are mostly 120cm x 120cm or 60cm x 60cm, although there are also rectangular framing and edging pieces in geometric stripes and zig-zag patterns.
Trend’s Best Collection offers a complete decorative solution in mosaic and agglomerate ornamentation, at prices from £490 ($769.4) per square metre. All materials in Trend’s range are made from up to 69% post-consumer recycled material and offer long-lasting qualities of glass, including resistance to heat, burns, sunlight, frost, water and chemicals.
