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People like this style above all for its tasteful balance between more vintage features and touches of modernity. It’s a very popular trend, especially for rooms like the kitchen, since it combines practicality with an immaculate, inviting aesthetic.
So let’s see what the industrial style is and how to choose the right floor and wall tiles for a kitchen perfectly attuned to this trend.
How did industrial style make it to your home? History and characteristics of industrial chic
The industrial style originated in the early ‘50s in America, when the old factories constructed in cities’ various districts during the years of the great industrial boom began to be converted for residential use.
People’s needs change and architecture evolves accordingly: the large open spaces of bare, very roomy New York lofts were the ideal place for experimenting with features and colours that conveyed the image of a specific lifestyle. As these large buildings were converted, architectural features such as metal structures and bare brickwork and bare concrete floors were conserved and reinterpreted within more attractive, elegant design schemes.
This created visually stunning living-spaces, perfect for anyone seeking a minimal yet sophisticated look.
Marazzi embraces the spirit of the industrial style and interprets it in collections that combine contemporary design with high-quality finishes. Discover all Marazzi’s tiling solutions for re-creating these urban moods in a functional, aesthetically appealing way.
Porcelain stoneware for an industrial style: a great kitchen tiling solution
If you want to re-create the authentic urban loft ambience, the right materials are crucial: during the building’s design or renovation, it’s essential to strike a balance between the typical industrial chic aesthetic and your lifestyle needs, to provide an attractive, hygienic, functional room.
The use of materials like concrete, unfinished wood and metal, typically found in factory buildings, isn’t feasible if home comforts are to be preserved. The answer to this dilemma is concrete-effect porcelain stoneware, ideal for re-creating a room with the authentic industrial mood without sacrificing convenience in terms of cleanliness, hygiene and suitability for home life.
Concrete-effect porcelain stoneware tiles accurately replicate the appearance of real concrete in an innovative, high-performing material.
The benefits of porcelain stoneware for tiling your industrial chic kitchen
Porcelain stoneware has many benefits for residential use, especially in rooms like the kitchen, where water and splashes mean constant cleaning is needed, not to mention higher resistance to traffic.
In terms of appearance, porcelain stoneware offers a choice of a wide range of finishes, enabling you to emphasise the industrial style’s pared-down, contemporary aesthetic without sacrificing the warm, inviting character required in a kitchen. From the point of view of interior comfort, porcelain stoneware can be installed above an under-floor heating system and adapted to your architectural needs and preferences.
In the final analysis, porcelain stoneware tiles are an excellent choice for an industrial-style kitchen, because they combine an authentic concrete look with outstanding performance in terms of durability and easy care, ensuring that the finished room will be attractive, hard-wearing and easy to look after.
For example, unlike “real” unfinished materials, which may be porous and difficult to maintain, porcelain stoneware has a non-porous, impact-resistant, easy-clean surface, ideal for daily use in the kitchen.
With this material, you can have that longed-for concrete effect but with all the benefits of a modern, versatile floor covering.
How do you choose the tiles for an industrial-style kitchen?
When selecting the tiles for the walls of an industrial-style kitchen, it’s fundamental to consider various factors to achieve a result that’s aesthetically consistent, practical and durable over time.
Therefore, it’s important to choose tiles that accurately replicate the textures and colours that evoke the mood of industrial interiors.. However, appearance isn’t the only consideration: in a room like a kitchen, the material’s durability and practicality are crucial.
Thanks to the vast range of sizes and finishes available, you can personalise your interior and create visual contrasts with matt or semi-glossy textures.
Last but not least, the tiles must combine effectively with the furnishings typical of the industrial style, such as metal or unfinished wood furniture and vintage details, to ensure a consistent, attractively matched overall look.
By choosing the right tiles, you can create a kitchen that offers a raw, metropolitan aesthetic together with all the convenience of a comfortable, modern kitchen.
The trendy colours and textures for an industrial kitchen
Industrial kitchens tend to have colour schemes that evoke those of old factories, such as grey, black and earthy shades. These colours, often combined with tactile textures and matt finishes, create a visual contrast that gives the interior dynamism and appeal.
Daring to add metal highlights can provide an extra level of depth and style.
Marazzi’s solutions for your kitchen’s industrial chic coverings
As we’ve already explained, porcelain stoneware is probably the most versatile and suitable material for creating an industrial style in the kitchen of your home.
The Marazzi website features a number of collections with innovative, elegant solutions for your interior designs. The Mystone Ceppo di Gré collection has innovative products inspired by the distinctive rock quarried in Lombardy, with large embedded pebbles for a striking tactile effect. Available in cool and warm shades, it’s ideal in combination with the wood and metals typical of the industrial style.
The Cementum collection features the concrete effect in a vast range of shades and includes hexagons and original patterns, to give stylish individuality to your kitchen’s walls and floors.
Bare brick walls are one of the distinguishing characteristics of industrial chic kitchens. If you don’t have an original wall, brick-effect stoneware wall tiles are the perfect alternative. The Terramater collection accurately re-creates the attractive aesthetic of brickwork, with a range of neutral shades that harmonise perfectly with materials like wood and concrete.
With its motifs that reinterpret those of delightful Italian cement tiles from the past, the D_Segni collection adds a vintage touch that evokes the ceramic tradition and makes the kitchen’s main wall a real focal point.
Industrial style design tips for your kitchen’s coverings
An industrial-style kitchen contains furniture made from metal and unfinished wood, often accompanied by decorative features such as open shelving, vintage lamps and iron or steel accessories.
The furnishings should be chosen to underline the character of the floor and wall tiles and a coherent design project will also include the lighting, which can play a key role in creating the right mood.
Items like suspended metal ceiling lamps and adjustable wall lamps are perfect for emphasising the textures of the floor and wall tiles, while large windows allow natural daylight to be used to best effect.
Marazzi’s ceramic solutions combine outstanding design, innovation and sustainability, with a wide choice of materials and finishes to personalise every kitchen with style and convenience.
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