We're big drinkers of coffee and we love the whole culture that goes with enjoying a good cup of coffee -t he Italians especially know how to make it into an artform! These coffee related images below definitely inspire our love for a good espresso.
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Rosa Cerruto
We love the work of Italian Illustrator Rosa Cerruto. She is currently working on some artwork to display in our office and for some future projects and will shortly be selling her prints on our online shop. We especially love the cityscape illustrations she does - she has recently been working on a bespoke piece of London just for us! Can you spot our Golborne Road building in the middle??
About Rosa:
I am an Italian illustrator and architect living and working in The Netherlands.
I have graduated as an architect at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice and got specialised as an illustrator at the International School of Illustration Sàrmede in Italy.
I have graduated as an architect at the IUAV University of Architecture in Venice and got specialised as an illustrator at the International School of Illustration Sàrmede in Italy.
Before starting off as a freelance illustrator I used to work in several architectural offices in both The Netherlands and Italy. As a freelancer I love, enjoy and follow what I really like: creating and drawing in freedom.
My illustrations and cartoons have been featured in several exhibitions in Italy, in The Netherlands and in Belgium.
My work and assignments range from hardcopy and digital magazines, advertisements, editorials, cartoons. From hardcore businesses to children’s books. I combine both various traditional and digital techniques, depending from the message I need to communicate.
I get inspired by small daily life details and from illustrations of Jean-Jacques Sempé Štěpán Zavřel, Saul Steinberg, but also biking through cities, cooking and enjoying a glass of good wine with friends.
Website: www.rosacerruto.com
Guest Blog: Fontanot Staircases, functionality and design made in Italy
Fontanot is a leading italian company with more than 40 years of experience in the industry of staircase products.
In the 1970's Fontanot starts a journey with the mission of transforming the staircase by combining aesthetics and design with functionality.
In the subsequent decade the company becomes famous worldwide for the creation of an industrial building process of stairs.
Going beyond the concept of the staircase seen as unique and indivisible, Fontanot produces easy to assemble stairsdesigned for those who want to customize their homes in complete freedom.
Through the years the company conceives and creates new staircases collections, including the highly successful and praised Arkè, Pixima, Magia and Geniusproduct lines.
We have interviewed Mark Chapman, UK and Ireland sales manager for Fontanot since 2002. Mr. Chapman gives us an overview of the DIY staircase market in the UK and worldwide with a particular focus on Fontanot's strategies.
Can you tell me something about yourself from a professional point of view, how long have you been working in this industry?
I have been employed by Fontanotsince July 2002, and I have worked as the UK and Ireland Sales Manager since then.
Have you noticed something during the economic crisis that have changed the customer behaviour?
Customers are more reluctant to spend money and are always looking to bring down the price. Enquiries have slowed down due to the crisis.
How would you describe Fontanot's position on the UK market?
I would describe Fontanot as the world leader in DIY stairs. This also applies to the UK market. The service offered by Fontanot cannot be matched by other DIY staircase manufacturers.
Any news coming up for the next six months that you would like to push?
Within the UK, Fontanot UK will aim to target sales in the London area on the back of the response of Grand Designs Live held in May. In my role as Sales Manager I am also talking to major DIY groups at the moment, such as B&Q, Screwfix and Selco. To start business with these Groups could see a huge increase in UK sales.
Fontanot UK, contemporary Italian designer staircases.
Contacts:
Office 7, The Store Room
Eastwood Trading Estate, Rotherham, South Yorkshire S65 1SL, United Kingdom
+44 1709 821555
Free number:
0800 6121045
E-mail:
Mutina Tiles
A company that we met at Cersaie design fair in Bologna, Italy this year is Italian tile manufacturer, Mutina. We love their range of lightly textured tiles, usable both for walls and floors.
We're hoping to use the STAGE and TEX range (below) in our new project at Craven Hill Gardens.
Another range that we really like is the PICO (click here to see it), a dotted tile with almost a traditional waffle fabric feel to it. We definitely want to use this in the near future!
From their website:
The best adventures, or at least the successful ones, are the result of circumstances: the end of a story is the beginning of another. So it was for Mutina, which, in 2006, embarked on a new path. Thirty years of history in the production of ceramics were swept by a wind of change that lead the company to choose a different course focusing on exclusive designs, a tailor-made production that combines technology with hand-crafted details, challenging experimentations that transcend the limits of the materials, and indispensable research for innovation to ensure a high quality product. This new course ties in with a new way of looking at the role of ceramics, which are not considered just floor or wall coverings anymore but have become an integral part of the interior design of a home: a concept shared by the designers working at Mutina and appealing to those who choose Mutina.
In all of our projects, we follow the ten principles for good design as set down by Dieter Rams: 1. Good design is innovative; 2. Good design makes a product useful; 3. Good design is aesthetic; 4. Good design makes a product understandable; 5. Good design is unobtrusive; 6. Good design is honest; 7. Good design is long lasting; 8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail; 9. Good design is environmentally friendly; 10. Good design is as little design as possible.
Minimal Cucine
As you know, we at Ardesia are constantly striving to achieve beautiful, modern, MINIMAL interiors. One of the companies that we know and love is Italian Kitchen and Bathroom company, Minimal Cucine.
Mininal Cucine design contemporary and dynamic kitchens and bathrooms with a perfct harmony between function and style. Depending on your needs, each kitchen range allows you to hide the hob, drawers and pretty much anything you can imagine within a sleek, unique solution that reinterperts the traditional concept of space.
The units become elegant pieces of furniture that open and close with soft movements, disguising every-day living within a shroud of minimal cleanliness and organisation.
Check out the Minimal Cucine website to see their full range of kitchens and bathrooms.
Listone Giordano
Listone Giordano is one of the great flooring companies we use. Their flooring is natural, beautiful and interesting and for the beauty and quality - very reasonably priced too. We love the textures and patterns their flooring comes in and are very pleased with the quality, durability and natural look and feel of the products.
From their Website:
About the Company
Listone Giordano is synonymous worldwide with excellence in premium hardwood flooring.
This recognition has been built over many years and is strengthened daily by the dedication and enthusiasm of all the people who work to create this product. They are driven by a single goal: perfection.
An incomparable product, made for whoever loves quality living and wants to find such excellence in their own home.
The Group
Margaritelli is today a large multi-business group that operates in different industrial sectors.
A success constructed around the passion for technological innovation that for more than a hundred years hands down to the components of the Margaritelli family.
In fact in the year 1870 Eugenio Margaritelli specializes in the production of mechanical utensils for agriculture and forestry manufacturing. It is a company designed to be constantly orientated towards perfection, a company that has always favoured research into original solutions and exploration down less beaten tracks.
It is for this reason that the various sectors of the Group – Doors, wood panelling, bathroom furnishings, outdoor products, road and noise reduction barriers, railway sleepers and even industrial vehicles – are based on common and universal values shared by all the Margaritelli men.
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