RAL085 70 40WinterbirnenbeigeWinter pear beige

RAL085 70 40WinterbirnenbeigeWinter pear beige

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RAL2010SignalorangeSignal orange

RAL2010SignalorangeSignal orange

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RAL220 85 05TransparentbleuTransparent blue

RAL220 85 05TransparentbleuTransparent blue

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RAL050 40 40MadeirabraunMadeira brown

RAL050 40 40MadeirabraunMadeira brown

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RAL350 30 40TrockenblumenpurpurDried flower purple

RAL350 30 40TrockenblumenpurpurDried flower purple

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RAL210 30 10GraphitschwarzgrünGraphite black green

RAL210 30 10GraphitschwarzgrünGraphite black green

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Cromatica Grigio

Cromatica Grigio

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A lexicon of colour shades for mixing. A large size and its submultiples. «This work represents a reflection on colour, and above all a proposal on how to transfer the multiplicity of shades typical of a hand-crafted piece into a project produced on a large scale.» Andrea Trimarchi & Simone Farresin Studio Formafantasma base their work in the design world on a strong vocation for research. Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi view every project as an opportunity for study and the acquisition of new knowledge, and their love of speculation establishes a dialectic rapport with the situations offered by each new client. Whether it involves a material, a type or a production method, the first phase of their design process is the mapping of what the specific case places at their disposal. With Cedit, an analysis of the company's past and present was central to the inputs. Inevitably, since "Looking back to look forward" has been the design duo's mission statement for years. In this case, in particular, the company's history was a real treasure trove, a fine blend of memory and technology: on the one hand, the excellence of production technologies now extended with the added potential arising from the engineering of large-sized ceramic tiles, and on the other a wealth of experience build up with great designers of the past, from Zanuso to Noorda, through to <strong>Ettore Sottsass</strong>. Andrea and Simone decided to focus on Sottsass - who started designing for Cedit back in the late Seventies - and made an in-depth study of one of the colour charts he developed towards the end of the Nineties. A spread of colours which gave its name to the "41 Colors" collection, included in the catalogue of the period as a real alphabet for what has proved to be a lasting design language. Colour was much more than just a compulsory step in the dialogue between designer and producer, since Sottsass had already discovered the power of the mystery intrinsic to this universe of invention.<br /><br />With Cedit the master-designer, a long-established lover of ceramics and their crafted unpredictability, found a way of transferring his personal feeling for colour to a wide audience, through industrial mass production. And this assumption is another factor Formafantasma have inherited, interpreting it today with new, even more efficient technical resources just as capable of expressing the secrets of colour. «The concept of colour "in isolation" - Sottsass explained in a 1992 text - classified colour, Pantone, as they call it now, "scientific" colour, is something I still refuse to accept. (...) Colours, the idea of colour, are always intangible, they slip slowly away like words, that run through your fingers, like poetry, which you can never keep hold of, like a good story.» And Formafantasma seem to have chosen that distinction between colour "in isolation" and "intangible" yet ever-present colour as the basis of their work. However, their approach draws on their unique vocation for research and the technical resources of the third millennium. «This work - they explain to us - is a reflection on colour, and above all on <strong>how to bring the multiplicity of shades typical of a hand-crafted piece into a large-scale project</strong>.» The designers look at large, monochrome slabs and turn to the engineers for details of their secrets, their processing stages, the phases in their production. They appreciate that the colour of ceramic material, its ineffable secret, can still be present in the series and large tile sizes in which Cedit leads the way. They understand that this is, in itself, an expressive power which does not need channelling into forms, motifs and signs. But above all, they treat the surface as a large canvas on which they spread pure colour, which tends to be uniform but in fact is never really a "scientific", totally monochrome hue: it is not a Pantone. And this is the source of the fundamental insight, which only children of the transition from the analogue to the digital era could achieve, the reward for those who draw on the past to look to the future.<br /><br />The designers cut the slab into lots of regular pieces, not necessarily of the same size. They restore its identity as a "tile", a familiar name with something ancient about it, but which stands for a module, a unit of measurement, a building block. There is nothing nostalgic about this - on the contrary, the vision is completely new, and the portions of slab created can be reassembled with no restrictions, breaking down the unity of the whole and reviving its essence starting from its structure. As the cards in the pack are shuffled, what emerges is not a figure or motif but the representation of colour itself and its physical nature. It is live matter, born from the meeting of vibrating forces, the mixing of ever-varying percentages of the basic ingredients. And Formafantasma present us with the corpuscular, fragmented essence of these small frames of space and crystallised time, which reveal the code and formula of their composition. So Cromatica is a collection made up of six colours which actually have an infinite number of declinations and compositional possibilities. It is a "discrete" combination in the mathematical sense of the term, capable of generating multiple, variable subsets. At the same time, each slab can be used in its entirety, leaving the impression of analogue continuity unchanged. But what really amazes is the comparison and dialogue between the two approaches: a stroke of genius, laying clear the mysterious appeal the artificial reproduction of colour has always held for mankind. Because, as Sottsass said, «colours are language, a powerful, magical, intangible, flexible, continuous material, in which existence is made manifest, the existence that lives in time and space».

RAL150 50 20KoreaminzeKorean mint

RAL150 50 20KoreaminzeKorean mint

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RAL230 60 30SportblauSports blue

RAL230 60 30SportblauSports blue

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RAL110 70 70ChlorophyllgrünChlorophyll green

RAL110 70 70ChlorophyllgrünChlorophyll green

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RAL7033ZementgrauCement grey

RAL7033ZementgrauCement grey

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RAL520-2

RAL520-2

ralFarben > Wall Paint

RAL040 93 05NaturweißNatural white

RAL040 93 05NaturweißNatural white

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RAL460-6

RAL460-6

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RAL350 50 15StumpfviolettBlunt violet

RAL350 50 15StumpfviolettBlunt violet

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RAL070 50 30LöwenmähnenblondLion's mane blonde

RAL070 50 30LöwenmähnenblondLion's mane blonde

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RAL240 50 20CoelinblauCoelin blue

RAL240 50 20CoelinblauCoelin blue

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RAL040 60 40TerraorangeTerra orange

RAL040 60 40TerraorangeTerra orange

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RAL170 90 10TürkisweißTurquoise white

RAL170 90 10TürkisweißTurquoise white

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RAL290 30 20KirchenblauChurch blue

RAL290 30 20KirchenblauChurch blue

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RAL8011NußbraunNut brown

RAL8011NußbraunNut brown

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RAL360 50 05BimssteingrauPumice grey

RAL360 50 05BimssteingrauPumice grey

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RAL470-3

RAL470-3

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RAL010 50 30MarmorrotMarble red

RAL010 50 30MarmorrotMarble red

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RAL280 60 05TüllgrauTulle grey

RAL280 60 05TüllgrauTulle grey

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RAL300 50 40KlarlilaClear mauve

RAL300 50 40KlarlilaClear mauve

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RAL230-M

RAL230-M

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RAL070 50 40AltgoldAntique gold

RAL070 50 40AltgoldAntique gold

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RAL4007PurpurviolettPurple violet

RAL4007PurpurviolettPurple violet

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RAL180 60 05MarmorgrüngrauMarble green-grey

RAL180 60 05MarmorgrüngrauMarble green-grey

ralFarben > Wall Paint

RAL200 30 05FinsternisgrünDarkness green

RAL200 30 05FinsternisgrünDarkness green

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RAL570-1

RAL570-1

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RAL250 50 10MetallgrauMetal grey

RAL250 50 10MetallgrauMetal grey

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RAL160 60 50SittichgrünParakeet green

RAL160 60 50SittichgrünParakeet green

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RAL7003MoosgrauMoss grey

RAL7003MoosgrauMoss grey

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RAL310 50 25BaronesslilaBaroness mauve

RAL310 50 25BaronesslilaBaroness mauve

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RAL170 50 45StockentengrünMallard green

RAL170 50 45StockentengrünMallard green

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RAL090 90 10PrimelweißPrimrose white

RAL090 90 10PrimelweißPrimrose white

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RAL350 80 20HellpinkLight pink

RAL350 80 20HellpinkLight pink

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RAL240-1

RAL240-1

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RAL160 50 50GolfgrünGolf green

RAL160 50 50GolfgrünGolf green

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RAL150 60 30RosmaringrünRosemary green

RAL150 60 30RosmaringrünRosemary green

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RAL320-6

RAL320-6

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RAL110 60 50AirlinegrünAirline green

RAL110 60 50AirlinegrünAirline green

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RAL720-5

RAL720-5

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RAL160-5

RAL160-5

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RAL310 60 10DezentlilaGentle mauve

RAL310 60 10DezentlilaGentle mauve

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RAL7030SteingrauStone grey

RAL7030SteingrauStone grey

ralFarben > Wall Paint

RAL330 50 30TulipanviolettTulipan violet

RAL330 50 30TulipanviolettTulipan violet

ralFarben > Ceiling Paint

RAL010 40 30TrübmagentaDull magenta

RAL010 40 30TrübmagentaDull magenta

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