The recent moments of lockdown and isolation have undoubtedly accelerated a change of interpretation of the idea of livability, of the ‘possession’ of the space of life and its boundaries, also in terms of design practice. While conserving their particular traits, indoor spaces are expanding into the outdoors, organizing a single, unified habitat driven by openness, mingling and extension of spatial identities.
While the indoor-outdoor passage was marked in the past by the insertion of different qualities of surfaces, today the materials are chosen not just for their compositional language, but also for their ability to create connections.
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Dolmix by Keope
All this is familiar ground for Keope, the very Italian ceramics maker of Gruppo Concorde, which in recent years has focused its production on outdoor facings, ready for interaction and combination with a vast range of residential and commercial indoor products that respond to changing tastes and needs in a visual and design continuum.
Keope interprets the theme of indoor-outdoor continuity with style and environmental awareness, offering collections with a complete array of formats and finishes – from stone effects to materials with an industrial character, all the way to the warmest varieties of wood. The collections share an accent on technical-functional performance of the materials, and on their visual impact.
Among the solutions in porcelain stoneware with a thickness of 20mm, the K2 system offers a wide choice of styles in 19 collections, 13 formats and over 50 articles, providing multiple possibilities of design in residential and commercial contexts. There are multiple installation solutions, also for the creation of floors with high resistance to loads and stresses.
Dolmix is a décor collection featuring a lively blend of marble and other stones of amazing graphic and decorative impact, in ample modern formats. The various mixtures of limestone backgrounds and mineral inserts produce three hues, Grey, Dark and Light, perfectly displaying the colored pebbles and marble inserts in a balanced distribution of the parts.
The new Lineo collection captures the enveloping, solid charm of wood and conveys it in colors gauged to provide five degrees of intensity. There are many possible applications thanks to the variety of formats. The outstanding characteristic of the series is its ability to coexist in matching or contrasting harmony with the many effects provided by Keope surfaces.
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Lineo by Keope
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Noord by Keope
A novel “grunge” look for an industrial image: this is the stylistic signature of Noord, a perfect choice for large commercial spaces, with its typical graphic and tonal effects – Anthracite, Gold, Grey, Silver, Taupe, Ivory and White – for the rugged material.
With the Omnia collection Keope returns to its origins: stone. The porcelain stoneware slabs reproduce the textures of six European natural stones: Bianco Venezia, Pietra dei Pirenei, Emperador Silver, Travertino di Rapolano, Bleu de Vix and Ceppo di Gré. Strong points include the possibility of playing with tones, shadings, formats and finishes, for surfaces with more or less roughness, and readiness for installation even in crucial high-traffic areas.
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Omnia by Keope