Indoor wall tiles: the new escapism in interior design

The ordinary becomes extraordinary: a refuge of creativity and imagination, an alternative world that expresses our personalities and embraces and inspires us. Design that challenges reality with imagination.

In an age of an ever-increasing pace of life and visual over-stimulation, interior design offers us a new refuge: escapism.

It’s not a flight from reality but rather an intentional shifting of the balance back towards pleasure, lightness and the satisfaction of the senses.

Within this trend, indoor wall tiles play a leading role in a design language that transforms the home into an emotional refuge, a place for wellbeing and for sharing.

From chaos to refuge: the new escapism in interior design

Contemporary escapism responds to the need for spaces that protect, embrace and surprise us. Interiors cast off their role of functional containers to become storytelling microcosms, where every surface helps to construct a sensory experience.

This makes covering the walls into an expressive statement.
The wall covering is no longer neutral: it has tales to tell, evoking imaginary worlds or real landscapes, like those found beneath the sea, with flowing waves and streaks of colour, as on this wall covered with Materia Brillante Abisso.

This design style permits aesthetic lavishness, creates wonder and surprise, and makes daring use of precious materials, unexpected colours and combinations that can call forth a smile.

Texture and Matter: the power of the decorative imagination

Decorative imagination is central to the escapist vocabulary.
Colourful resins, visual patchworks and mixes and matches of patterns and finishes feature alongside ceramic surfaces that imitate soft fabrics, rare stones or luxury materials.
It’s a design language of contrasts and surprises, inviting to the touch and with constant visual stimulation. Flaws acquire value and the unexpected detail becomes a distinctive feature.

Three-dimensional textures, vibrant surfaces and different material effects dialogue with each other and with the light, as in this bathroom, where smooth, gleaming Materia Brillante ceramic tiles in Cielo and Borgogna shades meet the three-dimensional surface of Materia Brillante Riflessi Cielo, in a delightful interaction of colours and materials.

Covering walls in line with contemporary interior design styles

Escapism can be applied in a variety of interior design styles and adapts to different contexts with natural ease.

This makes covering walls into great fun!
In the most minimalist interiors, a decorated wall becomes a narrative highlight, while in eclectic rooms the tiles amplify the dialogue between shapes, colours and materials.

Even in compact settings, in the interior design of small homes, ceramic coverings can provide smart solutions: surfaces that make spaces appear larger, patterns that direct the gaze and colours that add depth and personality, but with a light touch.

There could be nothing better for this purpose than Materia Brillante Gocce Bianco: bright, glossy ceramics beautified by countless coloured fragments that seem almost to break through the wall, generating an impression of openness and space.

Colour and light: when tiles become a mood

Colourful design is one of the escapist aesthetic’s most powerful tools. Tiles in desaturated colours, sugary shades, virtual hues and daring combinations are all offered in a palette that stimulates positive emotions and a light, airy impression.

The natural or artificial lighting amplifies this effect: the ceramic surfaces reflect, absorb or diffuse its brightness, enabling the walls to play an active role in the backdrop for home life.

The resulting mood is welcoming, dynamic and never static, as in this bathroom designed in Materia Brillante.

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Escapism applied to interior design doesn’t imply excess: it’s simply an invitation to experience the home as a place for enjoyment, relationships and comfort.

Wall tiles and coverings become tools for expression, with the ability to transform every room into a shared sensory experience, where design has the mission not just of decorating but of ensuring wellbeing.

So, according to the new escapist trend, choosing your interior wall tiles means embracing a free, individual approach, combining colours and large and small sizes, and adding unusual shapes and details, and evocations of the worlds of nature and fairytales, to the design scheme.

But it also implies creating truly astonishing ceramic designs, like the one generated when Materia Pura and Materia Eclettica come together.
Materia Pura Sassi Tortora wall and floor tiles delight and surprise with the pearly pebbles and bright fragments that emerge on their surfaces, enlivening the interior dominated by a spectacular kitchen block in Materia Eclettica.

Fap’s Materia Brillante, Eclettica and Pura collections interpret the escapist spirit with surfaces designed to last and surprise, ideal for covering the walls of bathrooms, kitchens, living-rooms and hybrid spaces, where the borderline between function and emotion is becoming more and more blurred.

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