The story behind this wall tile bathroom is truly unique: a genuinely bespoke project, tailor-made for the clients, who wanted to work with us to design and create the shower cladding for their new home.
But the story and the project go back much further: several years earlier, when Alice, a lover of ceramics and design, graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a dissertation focusing precisely on handcrafted sculptural cladding, drawing inspiration from the textures of humble and recycled materials. That is how she came to know Senio: she produced her dissertation samples and the polished surfaces in collaboration with us.
Several years later, whilst renovating their home, Alice and her husband Stefano wanted to treat themselves to a truly unique bathroom. They created 30×30 cm – 12”x12” mosaic patterns composed of the sculptural elements hand-crafted by Alice years earlier for her thesis, combined with small-format tiles from our ranges (the Murano and Stick collections in the 5×5 cm – 2”x2” size), as well as other three-dimensional surfaces designed specifically for the project.
Alice and Stefano love the colours of nature (the blue and turquoise of the sea, the green of the meadows) and that magical atmosphere created by the iridescent hues of the glazes, which evoke the preciousness of mother-of-pearl or, as Alice puts it, the ethereal shades of soap bubbles. The mosaic grids created are therefore a mix of glossy crackle and metallic glazes, both flat and 3D, which highlight their textural quality.
The result is a modern bathroom with a colourful, elegant and magical character, enhanced by the shimmering reflections. This mosaic has been laid inside the shower and on a bathroom column, whilst the ‘Bleu Galassia’ colour from the Stick collection, in the 20×120 cm – 8”x48” size, was chosen for the washbasin area.
PROGETTO / PROJECT: Alice Fagnocchi
