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New series of ceramic wall and floor tiles RAKO 2010
PARIS
Elegance combined with Parisian refinement
Tiles in the modern 19.8 x 39.8 cm format will fascinate you with trendy white, turquoise and dark brown combinations. In addition, Paris offers dateless classics: white, red-and-brown and dark brown. The basic tiles are, due to their "lively" original surface, decorative by themselves indeed. The relief surface is vivified by diffluent drops of water. The Paris series offers two types of listels, in colour tones identical to the basic components, the surface covered with glittery beads: the first is 6 x 19.8 cm with a distinctively wavy surface, while the second is elegant and slim, sized 1.5 x 39.8 cm. In the Paris series, the mystery of harmony is based on large area decor, completed with beads in the colour shades of the basic tiles. In area layout, you may create a curtain. If you combine the large decor with the drifty, not lined bead-like motive on the brown base, the effect of a curtain will be perfectly contrasting. At this moment, you are virtually taken to Paris, the heart of fashion. If you choose this pattern on the white base, you can "look behind the bathroom wall". To appreciate these type of effects, you need them in your bathroom! If you prefer simplicity, why not to use the large pattern in stripes? Paris will enchant you with the variety of wonderful options – so let your imagination work for you.
The wall tiles are completed with calibrated 44.5 x 44.5 cm Spirit floor tiles in brown and white.
REMIX
The best items combined together
Trends are changing nearly every month. However, after a long time, the world seems to be generally "overloaded" with minimalism, strict forms and monotonous colours. This is why we have the state-of-art, playful and colourful Remix series for the perfect price! The 25 x 33 cm wall tiles with their refined relief surface resemble a natural bark surface. The imitation bark is destined for the modern, warm range of pastel tones – orange, green are combined with light beige. Somewhat cooler tones are offered in the blue option in combination with snow-white.
As large decorations in a wall-paper style are currently popular, this series offers a large pattern of leaves in white and beige. Decorations with flower-like motives may cover, for example, one wall while the other walls are made in the basic or different tones within the series. The leaf pattern does not limit the installation in any way – you can continue it both horizontally and vertically. Another alternative comes with the 11.8 x 33 cm listel (white, cream colour) in the same design of the leaves for the large patterns. Add one or more stripes onto a single coloured bathroom wall and it will come into life. This is a very pleasant and modest alternative to large, wall-paper like patterns.
Another decoration comes through 4.5 x 25 cm listels in five basic colours, with a very interesting geometrical design, which is refined with a pearl-like coating. This is another variant of the basic tile combined with a modern listel.
If you prefer classic solutions and impressive yet effective details, you may be attracted by two types of relief listels (bombato). The series comprises both an R-type (5 x 25 cm) ledge piece and a thin U -type (2.3 x 25 cm) listel.
Glazed Remix floor tiles are 33.3 x 33.3 cm, made in three matt colours, with a glossy print on the top. They are truly impressive, easy to clean, and the price is just perfect!
ABSOLUT
Design edition
Combination of styles
The series is open to present trends – maximised format with plain decor in a minimalistic conception. The news of this year is the Absolut decoration, made in two colour modifications. It is possible to combine it with the basic white Combi tile and with the Frostica floor tiles. The final impression, harmonious fine decor with individual elements, is truly magnificent. The large calibrated white glossy Combi wall tiles are 29.8 x 59.8 cm. The Absolut floral decor with the lily pattern will bring life to absolutely any bathroom. The 59.8 x 59.8 cm decor develops in either version of two colour ranges, violet with light turquoise, or orange with green. The ranges are perfectly complementary with Frostica floor tiles. However, you do not have to install them on the floor only. A great impression can be achieved by playing with light and shade: why not use the Frostica floor tiles on the wall in combination with the Combi and Absolut decor? The interplay of surfaces and colour tones will be just perfect. The decor is offered with a 8.7 x 59.8 listel which combines the tones of the Absolut decor and the Frostica tiles. A big advantage of this series is the variability of the simple base combined with the luxurious decoration in both horizontal and vertical installations. It is the combination of noble-minded formats that brings the bathroom its exclusive character. Using the large format wall and floor tiles minimises the joints and lets the Absolut decoration show its uniqueness.
The "floral queen" lily design is supported by the elegant curves and fine tones of the Absolut decor. It is the charming lily, a natural element, that will let your imagination play: at a glance, it will offer you a very special experience indeed.
Absolut is not just the single flower. Its design predetermines the spirit of the series on the whole.
CONCEPT
Harmony in the composition
The Concept series is a half-way house between aesthetical attractiveness and perfect purposefulness. The rich collection offers a variety of wall tile, decoration and the floor tile combinations in order to establish perfect colour harmony.
The series includes cool (light, medium, dark grey) and warm (beige, coffee, brown) variants of single-colour matt 19.8 x 39.8 cm and 25 x 33 cm tiles, completed in either format with a white tile. There are four design-discreet, yet very specific, alternatives in the decorations named Celine, Monopoli, Akcent and Interia. Their perfection follows from the natural merge of tiled surfaces or individual compositions. The series, including the decorations, is designed so that it is able to meet the requirements of customers who prefer strict, minimalistic style and those who would choose natural tones or modern styles, too.
The Monopoli decoration is offered with a 4.5 x 25 cm listel for the 25 x 33 cm format, whose abstract hand-made appearance perfectly fits the basic tiles. For 19.8 x 39.8 cm, the same design also offers a large decor on a light beige or light grey base.
The Celine decoration will catch you with two 5.3 x 25 cm listel types in grey and brown. The impressive yet elegant listel will attract your attention in the same way as the other listel type (5.3 x 39.8 cm). Due to its modularity, you can use it in either direction or even in classic installations as well (crossing, with the use of a square 5.3 x 5.3 cm element). This element is used as an insert to form a central point for another decoration – a large 19.8 x 39.8 cm decor, combined with another (inserted) 5.3 x 10.4 cm centre with a fine floral motive.
The representative, plain Akcent decoration offers the 25 x 33 cm format with ready-to-cut furrows, ideally in combination with glass listels. The decoration with the cut-ins will attract you when the joints are completed as the large area of the basic format is lightened by splitting into a smaller format. In the minimalistic, pure design line, these decors are offered with narrow (1.5 x 25 cm) orange or dark red glass listels, which corresponds with the warm or the cool tone of the tiles.
The Interia decoration feels luxurious due to its large decor with a pearl-like impression. The brilliant granilia luster forms elegant stripes. The decoration is completed with a modular 4.3 x 39.8 cm listel in a mixture of the basic colour tones of this series, applicable both in vertical and horizontal installations. The decoration is offered with relief bombatos and ledge R-profiles, in six colour modifications.
Glazed 33.3 x 33.3 and 45 x 45 cm floor tiles harmonised in colour and size, contribute to the design conception for maximum variability of this rich series.
COMPLEMENTS TO OUR SUCCESSFUL SERIES
DEFILE
Temptation for the whole house
The Defile series represents a modern series of charismatic design in order to create style-pure space. For a second time, the interest from our clients inspired us to complete and improve the present series. At first sight, the impression of the Defile series is rather modest. However, on the whole, it will impress you with its great harmony. It is the simplicity of its elements that makes them beautiful.
No need for an exhibition of forms and styles: the strong point of this series is the fact that the refined beauty of the ceramic surface is underlined. This is why the complementary 4.7 x 4.7 cm mosaic is made in an identical colour to the basic tiles. It is an ideal decoration if used as a border in the bathroom, and the mosaic is fixed on a net so its easy to handle. In the kitchen, a small amount of it may bring life to large basic floor tiles. Or, why not to use it at a specific place which is difficult to line such as a niche, a shelf, a furnace, etc. The walls may be decorated with a mixture of several formats but in the same style. Therefore, the mosaic represents a necessary complement to the present series even for those who search for a rise of an (otherwise minimalistic) interior. Metallic brown, light beige and beige floor tiles are made in 29.5 x 59.5 cm and 44.5 x 44.5 cm sizes.
All elements in the Defile series are calibrated, which allows installations with narrow joints. The Defile is a safe bet if creating an impressive kitchen or bathroom interior, on the floor or a poly-function interior anywhere in the whole apartment.
SANDSTONE PLUS
Popular design in new dimensions
The Sandstone series, a fixed star in the RAKO production, has been enriched with a great, new impulse. The series is completed with two types of 4.7 x 4.7 cm cut mosaic. The colour range of the floor tiles (white, grey, anthracite black, beige and brown) predetermines the first type of the mosaic, created by the random mixing of all tones in the basic tiles. The other single-colour4.7 x 4.7 cm mosaic corresponds with the colour in the basic tiles to introduce a modern style of decorating in any application segment. Even a very small decorative mosaic may shift your bathroom or kitchen space to perfection. In accord with trend developments, it seems that this original floor series is very popular for complete bathroom installations, where the mosaic is a truly distinctive element indeed. Fine intarsia in the mosaic will "thaw" the bathroom space, which will be definitely appreciated by the users. The timeless mosaic decorates the interior from floor to ceiling. Alternatively, the mosaic may represent a combining element with calibrated 44.5 x 44.5 and 29.5 x 59.5 engrained floor tiles. The colour range in the floor tiles is adjusted for use in combination with cool or warm colour tones. Due to the calibrated edges, you can combine the standard surface with a lapped one. Alternatively, you can create a luxurious impression by alternating colours. A combination with the new type of mosaic or with a glass mosaic piece will underline the general look even further. Due to the coloured materials, calibration and large formats, object-type applications are not limited in any way either. There is a great advantage in the lapped surface, whose gloss meets the requirements for refined solutions in luxurious rooms. The offer is completed with staircase and plinth pieces.
NOE
Design edition
Luxurious wood design with the perfect parameters of ceramics
The current technology in the field of ceramic production allows the production of wood designs without any compromise, in a new, dynamic style and without useless nostalgia. The wood look is just perfect but the "wood" shows the extraordinary parameters of ceramics (gres porcellanato smaltato). Our present series has been completed with a 30 x 30 cm uni-type mosaic, where the mosaic components are made of basic tile material. There are two ways to decorate the walls: you can either install the mosaic in one direction (vertical or horizontal) , or you can turn the components by 90°. Calibrated 29.5 x 119.8 cm and 19.5 x 119.8 cm Noe floor tiles allow a variety of compositions and combinations. The brown, dark brown, light beige, white and ebony metallic colour variants support the character of the material. The extraordinary impression and function advantages of the mosaic are applicable in the kitchen, bathroom or commercial rooms. This is an ideal material for floor heating at places where a wood-like look is required.
Outstanding impressions are achieved through the combination of the NOE and TAURUS DOUBLE floor series
Following the trends, we would like to recommend you our modern bathroom combination comprising of the Noe and Taurus Double series. The Noe wood imitation allows you to install tiles in the bathroom with no worries about maintenance in a wet environment! In addition, the ceramic tiles are just perfect for floor heating, which is impossible with real wood. Trendy bathrooms are literally "trapped" in wood-like ceramic tiles. The cosiness of this type of bathroom feels very positive. This is why the Noe series was completed with mosaic lamellas which complement the conventional format while replacing conventional decorations. The nearly precise wood pattern is a great substitute for the conventional decorations in the bathroom series.
The formats are being increased even further. Large formats with minimum joints and a minimum amount of glue in an anthracite tone are just perfect.
The luxurious, harmonic combination was created by combining the wood-like tiles of the Noe series with the polished satin surface of the 60x60 and 30x60 cm calibrated floor tiles in the Taurus Double series. The sintered floor tiles of the Taurus Double series represent a homogenous material whose structure is very close to certain types of porcelain. This combination should not be contrasting at all. The interior formation should be compact and modern, a symbiosis of virtually heterogeneous materials.
In addition to the design, another advantage is the colour stability and minimum maintenance of this "wooden" ceramic material. Another benefit is the favourable price and quality when comparing with imported series of similar character.