A second award forNovoceram Indoor!

After the Label, Novoceram Indoor has obtained… the Etoile de l’Observeur du Design12, the top prize awarded by the panel of judges in France’s most prestigious design competition organised by the APCI (Agence pour la Promotion et la Création Industrielle).

Last July we announced on our blog that the Novoceram Indoor system for laying floating floors indoors had won the Observeur du Design12 label, together with the Novoceram Outdoor [...]

All good things have to come to an end sooner or later! Friday 30 September marked the end of a fabulous adventure,  The Passion Project, which took place first on Novoceram’s Facebook page, then on the Novoceram stand at Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings in Bologna from 20 to 24 September 2011. This application which started out life as a fun on-line initiative reminiscent of the themes [...]

The Passion Project operation which began life on Novoceram’s Facebook page took concrete form in a 220 m² stand inaugurated on Tuesday 20 September 2011 at Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings in Bologna.

From the outside, the stand resembled an imposing modern building, reminiscent of a headquarters for secret agents, organised into three large areas, each dedicated to a new collection.

Inside, visitors found the faces of the Passion [...]

Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, ended on Saturday 24 September with attribution of the prestigious Cersaie Awards, the trophy rewarding the Best Stand from among more than 1000 international exhibitors.
The panel of judges consisting of Silvia Robertazzi, editor of Casaviva, Aldo Colonetti, editor of Ottagono and architect Franco Origoni selected the stands which stood out for innovation, design, image and communication. In the category “Ceramic Tiles”, [...]

Perhaps of all materials, stone is the best able to absorb and give back the full value of time. Time continuously leaves its mark on stone, changing its colour, surface and texture, capturing the true heart of the material there day after day.  

Icone is the synthesis of research which explored dozens of types of stone to select the four which best expressed both the legacy of time and the fascination and [...]

With Outdoor Plus, Novoceram completes its range of floating laying systems for ceramic tiles which already includes the Novoceram Indoor kit for indoor floors and Novoceram Outdoor kit for outdoor paving.
Novoceram Outdoor Plus is a collection of outdoor paving tiles consisting of 20 mm thick monolithic porcelain stoneware slabs for dry laying on screed, gravel or grass or for raised laying, with three different types of support: fixed, adjustable and adjustable self [...]

Alliance enriches Novoceram’s Art collection with a new decorative mosaic panel, joining the “Trèsjouy” (2007) and “Florilège” (2008) ceramic wallpapers.

Alliance’s distinctive feature is the use of ceramic wood in a 180×135 cm mosaic which can be laid infinitely to tile walls of any size, transforming them into exclusive works of art in wood with a modular motif made up of a full 8,112 mosaic tiles with a side length of 1.5 cm.
Alliance [...]

It all begins at six in the morning on Thursday 1 September 2011. The alarm rings and I leap out of bed immediately… I absolutely mustn’t miss the train!
As arranged, I find Francesco at the station of St Vallier and we set off together, anxious that everything goes as planned and impatient to meet the Passion Leaders.
At Lyons, in front of the stately sunlit building housing the Musée des Tissus et des [...]

Vals stone is a Swiss quartzite quarried by hand from a single quarry near the town of Vals. It recently came to the attention of the international design and architectural world after being used by architect Peter Zumthor to construct the town’s Therme Vals building.
Hypnotic, elegant and exclusive, Vals stone has become the symbol of architecture in harmony with nature at the beginning of the millennium, a value so close to Novoceram’s [...]