Friul Mosaic + Studio Apostoli - Mosartec, the project designed for spas and wellness areas
The MOSARTEC project was born from the union of a reality like FRIUL MOSAIC and the technologies integrated by Studio Apostoli, led by the “wellness” architect Alberto Apostoli.
More specifically, the project consists in the creation of some products for spas and wellness areas: a multifunctional shower area, in which the Newform shower head and the Eutech touch controls become high-tech elements totally integrated and almost hidden in the mosaic surface as if they were complementary parts of a single thing, a chaise-longue with a curtain, where stone, metal, softness, lightness, warmth and plays of light blend together. The aim of this journey was to demonstrate that an art form like the mosaic art of FRIUL MOSAIC, where the creation of unique and unrepeatable elements is done entirely by hand with the use of a hammer, can coexist and, indeed, be enhanced by the collaboration with technological and industrial contexts and processes.
The process that the FRIUL MOSAIC world has undergone through the development of the MOSARTEC project is almost comparable to a natural evolution: the mosaic now appears more modern and the technology less cold, their fusion has given life to a product that is shaped according to needs and is renewed at all times. The tiles have a variable size of about 1.5 cm for a thickness of 10 mm and the materials used are Travertino Rosso, Rosso Verona, Rosso Laguna, Smalti Veneziani and Glass.
Friul Mosaic art in its Rosso Salone Period
Among the most relevant news in the artistic-artisan field we find the works of FRIUL MOSAIC which, as a point of reference for the Milan Design Week, will be present this year together with WWTS at the Four Seasons Hotel with its designer mosaic coverings.
Every year the Design Week takes up more and more space in the Milan area, but also in our hearts. An unmissable event for some time now, it has become the catalyst for ideas par excellence. Visionary, stimulating, sustainable, technological, trashy, minimal and so on and so forth, the week cannot end without some of them remaining in your memory… and probably some of them will be heard about for the rest of the year.
Among the most relevant news in the artistic-artisan field we find the works of FRIUL MOSAIC which, as a point of reference for the Milan Design Week, will be present this year together with WWTS at the Four Seasons Hotel with its designer mosaic coverings.
An integral part of the biennial Salone del Bagno, this year (a year off from the Salone del Bagno) it presents its new products in Via Gesù 6/8 in the fashion district (Press Preview 9 April at 7:30 pm).
FRIUL MOSAIC is completely at ease and in good company among the Italian excellences of haute couture; strong in the collaborations already underway in the field of high fashion, including the one that saw it create 350 square meters of mosaic coverings for the new Dolce & Gabbana store in Venice and several others in the luxury sector.
After all, the art of weaving has already inspired the homonymous TESSERE collection, designed for FRIUL MOSAIC by Luisa Bocchietto (President of WDO), whose patterns will be visible throughout the duration of the MDW. Typical of the Biella area, where the designer Luisa Bocchietto comes from, weaving is based precisely on the values of craftsmanship and creativity. This is how the idea of TESSERE was born, the result of an in-depth study of fabrics and textures in their construction and formal composition.
TESSERE is particularly representative for FRIUL MOSAIC because it refers not only to the action of weaving, but also to the fundamental element of each mosaic, namely the tesserae, 10 mm thick, cut by hand with a hammer by its craftsmen and arranged in such a way as to form compositions that are always unique and unrepeatable.
The dimensions of the tesserae used for the collection vary from 1.5×1.5 to 1×1 and the images use materials such as Thassos, Bardiglio, Bianco Carrara and Nero Marquina. Next month in Milan, a new, more lively version will be available, characterised by the use of different types of polychrome marble. Tessere will participate in the next Design Index.
Another important project will guide us through the art of Friul Mosaic at the Milan Design Week, namely the one created in collaboration with Alberto Apostoli, an architect and guru in the wellness field. More specifically, MOSARTEC, based on craftsmanship and technology, consists in the creation of some unexpected products perfect for spas and wellness areas.
A multifunctional shower area, where the shower head and the touch controls become high-tech elements totally integrated and almost hidden in the mosaic surface as if they were complementary parts of a single thing, an innovative and surprising chaise-longue with an elegant and velarium where stone, metal, softness, lightness, warmth and plays of light blend together.
FRIUL MOSAIC, alongside its design proposals, also offers an artistic mosaic with warm shades on a marine theme as can be seen from the images.
TRAME the new mosaic proposal by Friul Mosaic
From the now consolidated collaboration between FRIUL MOSAIC and gumdesign comes a new and fresh composition: TRAME.
FRIUL MOSAIC continues its artisanal journey inspired by the world of weaving by presenting a project by Laura Fiaschi and Gabriele Pardi, included in the CONTEMPORANEO catalogue.
“The Tuscan design studio, first with the PAESAGGIO collection and the LA CASA DI PIETRA project, and today with TRAME, manages to capture the essence of our passion, of the art of mosaic and of the value of our workmanship” says Nicola Avoledo of Friul Mosaic
Intertwined like the threads that make up a carpet, the mosaic tiles dance gently forming a creative and elegant novelty in mosaic art. Gumdesign has brought this personal rhythmic interpretation of the texture, alternating bundles of small 5mm mosaic tiles with larger marble parts.
TRAME expresses the philosophy of FRIUL MOSAIC according to which the craftsman must not entrench himself in tradition but must always be curious, constantly innovate in search of architectural and furnishing solutions created with precision and rigor but also creativity and curiosity.
“It is important to convey the versatility of our work, we like to range from artistic mosaic with reproduction even on a large scale of personalized works or drawings, to geometries, joints, minimal and modern motifs. Combinations of styles and techniques” concludes Nicola Avoledo.
Inside the FRIUL MOSAIC laboratory, the mosaic artisans cut the tiles by hand still using the hammer, and thus create shapes and mosaics destined to last over time.
For more information: www.friulmosaic.com
