Decorative panels from ceramic elements, natural stone, mosaic Tesser: Ready decorative panels and made to order, scope
For quite understandable reasons, it is unlikely that someone will come to mind to decorate the picturesque Wall of the Wall of the Bathroom, the kitchen "Apron" or ... Paul Living room. However, there is no rules without exception. In this case, we will discuss the decorative panels, the pattern of which is applied to ceramics or made of ceramic elements, natural stone, mosaic tester.
Listful interior magazines, we often come to the conclusion that many of the presented housing are dismissed, practical, but they lack warmth and comfort. Sometimes it looks like new or just renovated apartments with monotonous planes of walls and floor, cold shine ceramic tiles in bathrooms and kitchens. Of course, over time, the house is filled with cute hearts, paintings and photos appear, free places on the shelves and racks occupy books and souvenirs brought from traveling. Watch details especially pronounced the interests and nature of the inhabitants of housing. Although it is difficult to imagine how and how you can additionally decorate the walls, and even more so the floor laid out by ceramic tiles or porcelain stoneware. After all, these types of finishes are most often used in the premises of utilitarian purposes, kitchens, as well as on the floor of the hallway. AIH The main task is to protect against the destructive influence of moisture, dirt, various chemical reagents and cleaning products. But is it that something prevents in advance to take care of speech and unexpected decisions when creating design of such spaces, for example, using decorative panels?
We collect puzzles
The word "panel" is French origin (from FR.-Panneau), so-called part of the wall or a ceiling framed by stucco, ornament and decorated with a picturesque or sculptural image, and in addition, a picture or a bas-relief, made on the wall or ceiling. Ceramics manufacturers have adopted this technique and annually represent interesting ceramic panels with ornamental or plot compositions made in different stylistics, and most importantly, designed for every taste and financial capabilities. Here are some of the companies: Estima Ceramica, Kerama Marazzi, "Ceram Refractory Plant" (Brand-Italon), "Stroyfarfor" (Brend- "Shakhtinskaya Tile") (all- Russia), Aparici, Cerasa, Ceramica Tres Estilos, Colorker, Dune, Gaya, Peronda, Rocersa, Undefasa (all-Spain), ABK Group, Arsheo Ceramica, Atlas Concorde, Ceramica Di Treviso, Cir, Coem, Edilcuoghi, IDEA Ceramica, Impronta Italgraniti, Iris, Marca Corona, Sant'Agostino, Self, Sichenia , Viva Ceramica (All Italy), Villeroy Boch (Germany).
Sicis. | 
Ceramica di Treviso. | 
Impronta Italgraniti. | 
Edilcuoghi. |
1-2. The existence and beauty of mosaic patterns make us believe in the inexhaustibility of fancy designers.
3. Detarative panel consisting of four tiles immediately attracts attention, as it is located on a free, well-lit room wall.
4.Rapport with a flower pattern (9896cm) is a decorative element of the New Light collection (edilcuoghi) from large-format (4932cm) ceramic tiles with a relief surface.
One of the easiest ways to diversify the homogeneous surface of the walls and to use ready-made decorations. Along with traditional borders in many collections of ceramic tiles and porcelain, decorative inserts and panels are present. They differ in colorful pattern, often combined with a pronounced relief, and the dimensions usually coincide with the background tiles. The classic panel occupies a large area, usually multiple 2, 4, 6 and another number of background tiles. The completed scenic image can be performed on a solid ceramic plate (maximum size, 11m) or scored from individual tiles. Threads are truly inexhaustible: from the textbook antique plots to avant-garde geometric paintings. Often, panels are copies of the fabrics of famous masters, still lifes, landscapes, floristic ornaments.
Kerama Marazzi. | 
Gaya. | 
Vietri. | 
Vietri. |
5-8.Sobody selection of drawings, colors, textures of ceramic decors and panels are one of the conditions for creating unique interior decorations.
The peculiarity of modern panels is the absence of well-pronounced borders. Tiles with separate elements of the decor are easily combined with each other in any order. Similar ceramic puzzles decorated with floral patterns. Perhaps this technique put the beginning of a new fashion trend. It lies in the fact that the creators need more square to embody their ideas, and the art compositions often occupy the plane of the whole wall. In this case, it is important to correctly relate the scene panel size and the size of the room. So, sometimes it is better to use a small bathroom as an exposition site, but the walls and floors of the kitchen, hall and even the living room.
Water stone sticks
Decorative panels from such solid and fragile materials such as porcelain stoneware and natural stone, with the most incredible ornaments of an unlimited format are made using modern technologies. The most common method of hydroabrasive cutting used for the manufacture of panel elements is most common. Its essence is as follows: a mixture of water and abrasive particles from a special container under high pressure is supplied to the cutting place. A high-speed stream of small diameter forms a nozzle from an overhard alloy. At the same time, water only delivers to the place of the abrasive cut, which takes off and takes along with a jet of the particles exposed to the material. The cut is clean and accurate on any solid tiles.
Ceramica di Treviso. | 
Impronta Italgraniti. | 
Trend. | 
"Crara Holding" |
9. The actual direction in the interior design is large colorful compositions on the walls. Bright examples of Sayonara ceramic mosaic (Ceramica di Treviso).
10. Rhus (IMPRONTA ITALGRANITI) is a glazed retreed ceramic granite with a "silky" matte surface. Tile format- 9012 / 15/20 / 60cm. Size panel-9060cm.
11. There is an interesting and unexpected decorative techniques of mosaic inserts on the walls and the ceiling of the room. They revive the interior decorated in a modern style.
12.In the bathroom on a free wall looks good panels with a perspective. Such compositions visually expand a small closed space.
Punching abrasive is used by the grenade sand processing of the natural mineral almadine mineral, one of the most common pomegranates of red or red-purple. It is surprising that this mineral, turned into jewels, can cause admiring views and even cause dramatic events (such as the "Pomegranate bracelet" described in the story). Now, it serves as a submitted means when creating exquisite decorations from other materials.
Advantages of hydroabrasive cutting: Small reise width (about 1mm); a small amount of waste; High quality surface of a slice that does not require additional processing; The range of depth of cut is 1-30 mm. This technology is universal. It is used for processing ceramic tiles, porcelain stoneware, clinker, natural stone, glass, plastics, tree IT.D. The artist's fantasy is able to combine several materials in a wall or outdoor composition.
"Crara Holding" | 
"Crara Holding" | 
ABK Group. | 
Sichenia. |
13-14. Method of hydroabrasive cutting allows you to cut elements from a porcelain stoneware of any complexity and create set patterns, as well as patterns included in the circle or rectangle of arbitrary size.
15. Bright Punk Composibee Fior Di Loto (6050cm) from the ENJOY collection (ABK Group) can also be used for an exquisite decorative curb on the bathroom wall.
16. Detarative panels developed by the manufacturer of ceramic tiles are ideally combined with the background elements of the corresponding series due to a similar texture and in the same or different, but multiple sizes.
The panel pattern is made up of compact cut-off elements that are fixed on the grid, so that masters-stacking remains only gently transferred and fix it in place. More complex compositions are collected and glued to a cardboard substrate. When installing, first place large parts, and then in exact accordance with the ornament, the slots are filled with small. The minimum seam size between the individual components is 1-2mm.
Time and place
By the way, about fantasy. How to choose the content of the panel decor performed in the hydroabrasive cutting technique? First, ceramics manufacturers represent a number of standard compositions in several color variations, and sometimes with the addition of another material. So, the marble of pastel tones is often revived by bright inserts of porcelain stoneware. Secondly, the customer can bring its own sketch in electronic or paper form with accurate image size and selecting color. The term of manufacture of panels by an individual project ranges from 3 weeks to 2-3 months, while the choice from a number of typical proposals reduces the waiting time by about 2 times, and there are such panels at least 30% cheaper. The most sought-after samples are usually included in the stock company's warehouse program, and they will be brought to you in a day.
Peronda. | 
Apprani. | 
Cir. | 
IDEA CERAMICA. |
17.Related structured surface and gentle bases of basic tiles from the Emotions collection (Peronda) beneficially shade the decor with large colors.
18. Diseard Mosaic Panel Red Rose, Appaini is created by the Italian architect David Pizzigoni.
19. Enter the kitchen in the island of comfort and well-being is capable of CIR ceramics decors. They are distinguished by primary identity, and many are manually manufactured.
20. Ceramic Pop-Art style is highlighted by the brightness of the paints and the simplicity of the image.
An interesting nuance: the simplest orders are incredibly popular. Agree that at home, not everyone will do it quickly and efficiently, without damaging the material, even using a crown mill with carbide spraying. Such a service will cost approximately 200 rubles. However, in some workshops there is a minimum cost of ordering - 1t. The price of hydroabrasive cutting depends on the deadlines, the volume of work, the characteristics of the material, its thickness and complexity of the figures. For example, 1m direct cutting on ceramic tiles (thickness - 8mm) costs 135-270rub., By mramor, 180-360 rubles, according to porcelain stoneware- 225- 450 rub. With curly cut, these figures increase by another 5-10%.
Do we need decols?
True connoisseurs of the beautiful, preferring a piece product of mass production products, it is worth paying attention to ceramic panels with original paintings or photographs obtained using digital decoli technology. This is the way to transfer digital images on ceramics with subsequent firing. The sequence of the process is as follows: the picture is printed on special paper with a film layer. Then a film with a special ceramic paint containing mineral fillers is separated from paper, transfer to ceramic tiles or porcelain stonewares and sends the workpiece into the oven. Under the influence of high temperature (up to 900C), the paint is firmly composed into the surface. Due to the high print accuracy, the image looks very realistic. The pattern is placed on top of the layer of glaze and under it (in the second case, the colorful layer is more saturated and durable).
Kerama Marazzi. | 
Undefasa. | 
Peronda. |
21. Designer infantasia transforms a set of decorative elements into an infinite set of bold combinations.
22.Sifted printing methods allow any images to be applied to ceramics and even photos. They are saved as long as any other drawing. In this case, the material accurately reproduces the shades of color, and the paint of coatings do not erase and do not flex.
23. The surface of the floor revives and decorates a light graphic pattern.
An alternative to the traditional drawing method by screening screen (shit) - technology of inkjet four-color printing. The principle of airbrush allows (using a computer) to apply images even on structured surfaces. The computer splits the pattern on the part, creating the compositions from 1 cm2 to 20m2 or more.
Such methods can be realized to realize the most unexpected and daring plans. The customer receives complete freedom to choose decors, ornaments or photographs, which will later appear on ceramic tiles. However, manufacturers offer extensive catalogs of ready-made development. The cost of 1m2 tiles with the deposited image - from 15 thousand rubles.
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Art Mosaic
There is one more type of panel, a decent comparison with real artworks of both beauty and price. We are talking about the mosaic paintings of handmade. Artistically performed mosaic drawing can not be distinguished from painting. Realistic images with smooth transitions of colors are obtained by a subproof method. The ombus of the minor mosaic elements split into completely tiny and lay out according to the sketch. Nearby, the location seems chaotic, but at a glance from a certain distance, the scattered tessra miraculously turn into a colorful canvas. Another way to obtain a mosaic panel-called matrix assembly is simpler, which means cheaper. The image is typed from the whole tester of the smallest size (1010mm) or combine them with larger. Price 1M2 work - from 15 thousand rubles. To simplify and speed up the laying process, the pattern is collected on a cardboard basis. On the finished composition, the layer of paper is glued on top, and then cut into parts, convenient for transportation. Stackers remain only to fix individual components of panels in the correct order by applying a special adhesive composition.
Sicis. | 
"Convent Center" | 
Sicis. |
24. The elements of natural stone form a very intricate drawing.
25. Clear "Marine pebbles" is a mug of ceramics or glass with a diameter of 1.5-4.5 cm and 4mm thick. The series is indispensable for interiors in the marine style, shower, bathrooms, pools.
26.Conal ornament on the walls is incredibly elegant, and most importantly, it will remain almost for centuries.
Glass mosaic - excellent material for wall-mounted compositions. Thanks to its excellent technical characteristics, decorative panels can be considered almost eternal. Punching decorations for the floor is preferable to mosaic from smalt, porcelain stoneware and natural stone.
Tisca. | 
Ceracasa. | 
Self. | 
Self. |
27-28. The collection of panel is huge: from the classic carpet pattern (27) to the avant-garde image of the running bulls (28).
29-30. Clear formulations and suture aggregates used for laying a glass mosaic must necessarily be white.
Kshiroo known manufacturers of mosaic from various materials of any forms and sizes include Architeza, Marmica (both- Russia), Dune, Ezarri, Onix (all-Spain), Bisazza, Giaretta, Sicis, Trend, Jnj Mosaic, Super Glass (both China). Making mosaic panels, "carpets", "wallpapers" on finished drawings and to order can many companies representing this material in the domestic market and having their own art studios. Among them "Alzat", "Convent Center", Giel, Ideale Mosaic (All- Russia).
Topics and variations
Development of new ceramic collections, stylized compositions and decors of akin to art Couturier. Few visits of high fashion weeks, but, entering shops, everyone must pay attention to the last arrivals. Absolutely the same principle acts in ceramic fashion. So, today at the peak of popularity - arabesque, rich and complex ornaments from bizarrely intertwined geometric or stylized plant elements. Ethnic motives remain in demand. In the midst of the fusion style, with extraordinary design solutions, which go beyond the generally accepted, organically look at the Panno with images of Taoist characters Yin and Yang, Mandalas (sacred diagrams used in Buddhism), signs of the zodiac.
Classic interiors will decorate the tile, the drawing of the styling of which resembles a traditional carpet. The center of the open section of the floor is placed a typical decor from elements of different colors and textures included in a circle or rectangle. On the perimeter of the room laid a border, made in one stylist with the main pattern.
"Alzat" | 
"Convent Center" | 
Self. |
31-32. Professional mosaicists are subject to any images and styles - from world classics to eclecticism and avant-garde.
33. The incident floor pattern is composed of parts cut from stone and ceramics.
Scene compositions of decorative panels sometimes explicitly indicate the room and place in which they are preferable to position. For example, ceramic kitchen "Apron" often lay out tiles with rural and urban landscapes, household scenes, still lifes, basket images with flowers and fruits. Among the leadership-relief paintings, and there are so voluminous that the desire to take fruit from the vase occurs. Golden bathrooms often use the topic of water, marine motives or traditional floral patterns. This is a classic genre. But this classification is not a dogma, but only a guide to action.
The editors thanks Alzat, Ceramics, Kraram Holding, Giel, the Spanish Embassy Trade and Economic Department for help preparing the material.