Our regular look at what’s trending, the seriously stylish, admired by the Go Modern team and, most importantly, loved by our customers. Trending now: Ceramic finishes.
Marble v Ceramic
We all love marble. Its one of our most elegant and timeless materials, rarely unfashionable and always admired. Unfortunately its reputation as a hard wearing surface material is not always the best. However, that isn’t to say you should shy away from ever buying it. With the right love, care and attention marble will always look fabulous and retain its brightness and beauty.
The problem is that as a natural stone marble is relatively soft and porous. Therefore, it’s fairly easy to scratch and can be susceptible to staining. You can have it professionally sealed but this is something that needs to be repeated on a fairly regular basis depending on use.
As a consequence, manufacturers have worked very hard to produce a material that genuinely looks as good as marble. And this is where ceramic finishes come in. This fantastic new material is a combination of clay and glass that is given a polished marble effect finish. And the results are impressive. That’s because ceramic finishes are extremely hard-wearing with a strong resistance to scratches and stains. Plus it’s a non-absorbent material and very easy to clean.
In fact ceramic finishes have proved so successful that manufacturers are now rolling them out across lots of new designs. With some remarkable results.
Asymmetrical elegance
Bonaldo’s elegant new Doppler K sideboard and cabinet, with their asymmetrical opening doors, have been produced in new gloss, matt and silk ceramic finishes. Besides being stylish they’re also perfect for any room. Particularly ideal for high traffic areas such as the kitchen/dining area.
Versatile and Hard-Wearing
Impress your dinner guests with this superb extending dining table from Tonelli Design. Tonelli are the Italian glass wizards when it comes to glass furniture. Their Livingstone dining table combines beautiful marble-look ceramic glass with side extensions in smoked or extra-clear glass.
We’re not really advocating that you start ironing on your table, but on the other hand… Above all, ceramic is the super hero of materials as the image here demonstrates! This is Bontempi Casa’s Millennium extending table and it’s available in lots of ceramic finishes. Look out for the incredibly hard-wearing ceramics: SuperCeramica, SuperMarble or SuperConcrete.
Distinctive Design
Finally, the distinctive metal trapezium base of Gino Carollo’s Art console table is a showstopper. It’s a new addition to the Art Collection, and launched in Milan this year. It’s topped by six different beautiful ceramics or you can choose from a selection of warm woods.