Designer Giulio Iacchetti’s Collaboration with Refin Leads to Labyrinth
The Angle collection features three colors: Navy (shown above), Slate and Pearl.
The first tile flooring collection ever conceived by this “disobedient” Italian designer stems from a simple and peculiar geometrical insight and was developed thanks to the support offered by one of the most innovative tile companies.
The Labyrinth project from Ceramiche Refin challenges the traditional square tile, overthrows boring standardized solutions and offers versatile module-based components for bold compositions creating different patterns with endless possible arrangements.
Surfaces can be altered by a slight laying change; the eye gets lost in intricate zigzag effects, mirror-like, symmetrical or orderless, conveying, as industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti says, “a sense of infinite, an unlimited graphic development.”
Industrial designer Giulio Iacchetti
The ceramic tile reinvents itself, leaving behind its rigorous serialized nature and acquiring a third dimension, undermining mainstream cliché and carrying us away in a world of emotionally powerful trompe-l’oeil and modular Escher-like patterns, an artist Iacchetti is very fond of.
Labyrinth also recovers and enhances the purest decorating and color-based ceramic culture, which has become stronger recently (such as the Frame collection by DesignTaleStudio) and regained the well-deserved role it played in the past decades.
The Labyrinth collection is divided into two collections Angle and Mirror, both designed for a free use of the tile module in order to build your own personal “labyrinth,” thus creating your own unique design.
Based on the work of Josef and Anni Albers, both Bauhaus exponents, the Angle collection features three color lines: Navy, Slate and Pearl.
The Mirror collection is available in three different color versions: Silver, Ash and Sand featuring a rich, deep, textile-inspired texture.
Ceramiche Refin and DesignTaleStudio say they are committed to continue experimenting with new ceramic solutions, combining industrial manufacturing with craftsman know-how, and creativity in production methods.