With a reputation for their beauty and technical performance, Spanish tiles draw on a rich heritage of creativity, quality and skill while remaining at the leading edge of contemporary design. At the latest edition of the Surface Design Show, Tile of Spain, the voice of the Spanish tile industry, has curated a dazzling display of new ceramic and porcelain designs that offer a taste of the eclectic choice of colours, shapes, finishes and formats available for both residential and commercial projects.
Colorker’s Metropolitain tiles in winter turquoise and Cevica’s Good Vibes in a mix of on-trend colours
The range of looks include sumptuous monocolour seen in Colorker’s Metropolitain and Ceramica Elias’s Esmaltes ranges as well as innovative uses of colour as advanced digital printing effects allow manufacturers to produce realistic fabric-, metal- and wood-effects whilst also exploring the trend for geometrics. Eyecatching examples include Cevica’s Good Vibes, reminiscent of a quilt of octagonal patchwork pieces, Roca’s Fabric range, evoking the warmth of tweed and Dune’s Transverse with its design of simple diagonal lines in copper, clay, cement and graphite tones.
Dune’s Transverse in copper; various Esmaltes tiles by Ceramicas Elias; Roca’s porcelain Fabric look
At Dune Ceramicas, the inspiration also comes from many sources including textiles such as their Stripes Denim and Stripes Linen ranges, but also from nature: wood, bamboo, marble and metals generate surprising compositions that look very modern and fresh. The Stripes tile can be combined with Stripes Mix or used singularly.
Stripes Mix ceramic tiles by Dune are shown here in teak, but come in other wood and nature-inspired-effects
With its micro-relief surface, the Concrete range by Ceramica Cas has a subtle geometrical design which is made out of very fine lines. There are also a number of interesting Décor tiles in the Concrete collection using the same colour palette.
Concrete by Ceramica Cas features a matt micro-relief surface that comes in six shades
Many of the tiles on display in the Tile of Spain showcase allow for a variety of placements on a wall, which gives a designer or end-user the opportunity to express fully their creativity and artistically suit materials to the space. Individual tiles are interesting in themselves offering optical effects such as Equipe Ceramica’s Magical range in two different multi-faceted surfaces Umbrella and Star and El Barco’s Summit range whilst Zirconio’s Silver collection has a variety of pleasing textures including Tokio, Prisma and Geo.
Inspired by high mountain peaks, ceramic tiles by El Barco’s new Summit range adds drama to walls
Zirconio’s Silver collection in Tokio; Magical by Equipe Ceramica in Electric Blue and White Pearl
Experimental tiles include surfaces developed for the Harmony Collection by Peronda such as the new Fading range by Japanese design studio Kuramoto that features overlapping patterns and finishes. Also innovative is Zirconio’s Silver Prisma format which playfully uses geometry to create a gentle undulating surface of softened diagonals. Both surfaces are visually challenging because of their sense of movement.
The Fading Collection by Harmony for Peronda and Zirconio’s Silver Prisma range
Manufactured in Spain and widely available in the UK, these wonderful new products embody the spirit of an industry that prides itself on proposing beautiful, meaningful and high-performance solutions to flooring, wall coverings, furnishing and external cladding.