If you want to create a radiant, impressive space with a sense of classic or modern luxury, consider gold-, platinum-, copper- and bronze-finish tiles for your largest surfaces.
As you know, the word 'luxury' is no longer as intimidating as it once was. In particular, the new idea of luxury has moved beyond material possessions towards more abstract notions such as comfort, freedom and making time. So luxury no longer immediately brings jewellery boxes, enormous chandeliers and carved mirrors to mind.
While sociologists define luxury through relative needs, the traditional trio of opulence, elegance and luxury continues to create grand, classic homes. On the opposite side are the modernists, who bring textures associated with luxury together with minimal forms. They emphasise simplicity while also using gold above all, along with leather, platinum, silk and even polished stone.
Surfaces, the new canvas for this spatial sensibility, place just as much importance on gold, platinum, copper, bronze and rose-gold reflections as furniture, accessories, textiles and lighting. Looking at tile designs that have emerged in recent years, we see metallic elegance expressed across entire surfaces, in decorative details and at the tactile focal points of three-dimensional ceramics.
What is more, considering that porcelain and ceramic tiles produced with new technologies are used throughout the home, not just in kitchens and bathrooms, but especially in shared areas such as entrance halls, fireplace surrounds and corridors, you can introduce a metallic reflection at the entrance and carry it through other spaces to create a cohesive interior. Metallic tiles are so eye-catching that applying them to a corner, niche or section of wall you want to highlight can be more successful than covering a large surface.
Whether radiant or matt, metallic-effect tiles can instantly add a distinctive personality and an artisanal dimension to a space. If you would like to bring a magnificent touch to your living space, explore these ideas:
You want to bring dramatic, classic elegance to your living room walls, but you also want something original, so you are looking beyond wood or wallpaper. If you are creating a focal point, cover its backdrop with marble-effect and gold-decorated tiles. If the room features furniture in natural shades, such as brown, khaki, cinnamon, taupe and beige, alongside plenty of plants, we recommend Asteroid, Kalesinterflex's large-format marble-effect tile. Another option is Marrakesh Egzotik from Kalebodur's Royal Marbles series. Now for the golden shimmer at the heart of this grey-green backdrop: the Vanity series from Çanakkale Seramik's Formart collection crowns ceramics with gold and platinum decoration. The result is designs that create magnificent panels.
Let's create a brighter version too. Suppose your entrance hall receives little light and you want the brightest possible shades and reflective materials. We can use the same approach again. Cover the wall behind the hallway cupboard or console with Kalesinterflex's marble-effect Palissandro or Calacatta tiles. Complete this marble frame with Çanakkale Seramik's gold-decorated Calacatta series.
Even after years of being modernists and minimalists, our choices and tastes can change, until we suddenly find ourselves devoted classicists. In recent years, softening and simplifying classic elegance to strike a modern-classic balance has become very popular. If you would like a refined bathroom that is stylish and elegant yet free of ostentation, choose tiles that bring classic gold decoration together with marble. For example, you can pair the bone and taupe marble-effect tiles in Çanakkale Seramik's Vivaldi series with the same series' rectified classic decorative tiles and gold-detailed décor tiles.
Imagine living in an enormous loft: high walls, open space, abundant light and little furniture. All you want is to bring together textures and artisanal touches that suit the character of the building. People living in particularly spacious homes often wonder what to do with those walls and find themselves turning to art and craft. If you love contrast and have an ultra-minimal loft with bare concrete walls or a nostalgic, high-ceilinged flat, you can indulge your home, spirit and senses with a beautiful product that combines gold, platinum, black and white with geometric patterns, creating new panel designs whenever its orientation changes. The Rumi series from Çanakkale Seramik's legendary Orientile collection brings metallic touches reminiscent of a calligrapher's hand together with the lines of handwritten manuscripts.
