Porcelain stoneware and ceramic indoor wall coverings with leading-edge design: light, volume and matter

Today we’re going to discuss decorative and high-design porcelain stoneware indoor wall coverings and ceramic wall tiles: large slabs and small tiles that give interiors contemporary style with textures, light and colour.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. 

Le Corbusier

Porcelain stoneware: one material, a wide variety of looks

Porcelain stoneware is a key material for wall tiles, indoor walls and stylish interior design. It’s a unique material, able to interpret and reproduce material looks and textures with amazing accuracy and refinement.

Porcelain stoneware’s technical qualities make it the ideal covering for use as bathroom tiling: easy to clean and durable over time, perfect for damp and heavily-used locations.

Nowadays, however, stoneware’s not just the practical option: it’s a design tool that enables architects to exploit light to the full, make interiors look larger and create continuity between walls and floors.

Tough, versatile and high-performing, porcelain stoneware is an elegant bathroom tiling material, offering a wide variety of styles and finishes, also enhanced by the availability of trim tiles. [link to new article on this topic] What’s more, it can give personality to bedroom and living-room walls with decorative coverings in large and very large sizes, such as the 120x278 Fap MAXXI surfaces.

GEMME: marvellous onyx look

One example of this potential is GEMME: gemlike slabs in onyx-look porcelain stoneware, which celebrate light with shiny finishes, bright colours and a range of sizes running right up to large slabs. Its surfaces, with beautiful natural reflective veining, amplify the light and help to increase interiors’ perceived size.

GEMME is perfect for designing focus walls, luxurious bathrooms or prestige interiors, because it provides a timeless beauty, where light is reflected and multiplied, truly transforming architecture into emotion.

GLIM: colour, rhythm and vibrant surfaces

Great decorative power can also be expressed by small tile sizes.

Take GLIM, for example: glossy porcelain stoneware brick tiles with vibrant finishes and metallic highlights that give dynamism to walls.
Practical in spite of their strong aesthetic impact, they’re perfect not only for creating kitchen backsplashes but also for giving personality to niches, entrance halls and living areas.

These glossy-finish decorative wall coverings interact with the light to generate an iridescent effect, amplifying spaces’ apparent size and forming elegant contrasts with their deep yet bright colours.
The result is a contemporary interior where walls are no longer static but bring life and animation to the design scheme.

Particularly perfect for the living area, GLIM is also an excellent option for covering bedroom walls, where it helps to provide light and originality.

Materia Brillante: Three-dimensional surfaces and light

When it comes to light and volumes, 3D is often the ideal solution.
Structured three-dimensional surfaces interact with natural and artificial light to generate subtle shadows and visual vibrations that give depth to interiors.

Idea as a contemporary bathroom covering or for creating a focus wall, Materia Brillante 3D wall tiles combine colour, three-dimensionality and style, transforming ceramics into expression.

Materia Brillante Riflessi introduces sinuous, intentionally irregular variations to the traditional ribbed tile, with effects that vary depending on the colour: from a forest green, evoking a natural meadow, to sand-inspired ecru shades and sky-blue hues calling forth images of a choppy sea.

In the same line, Foglie Linfa offers soft, undulating surfaces inspired by the world of botany and flowers, perfect for tiling a bathroom with a fresh, sophisticated, pleasantly tactile touch.

Ceramic wall tiles: also a brilliant idea in large sizes

Another option for providing trendy interior walls with light and shine is Materia Brillante Gocce Bianco, a fascinating surface featuring fragments of colour, soft relief textures and gleaming highlights.
Wall tiles of great decorative potential, able to dialogue with both private homes and hospitality and working locations.

Lovers of decorative wall coverings will also find a wealth of ideas in Fap EXXTRA, a vast repertoire of wall tiles ranging from raw chic to botanical, with rusted metal-look Corten steel slabs, 3D surfaces, geometrical, floral and jungle textures and concrete, fabric and resin effects.
A more practical, high-performance alternative to wallpaper, which expands spaces in its 80x160 size with minimal joints.

Matching floors and walls: creating unified design schemes

Harmony is the key to every successful project.

Coordinating the indoor wall coverings with the design of the floorings creates visual continuity, balances textures and colours and provides attractive contrasts. Three-dimensional surfaces can dialogue with neutral floorings, glossy brick tiles can become bright highlights in minimalist interiors, and onyx-look slabs can be reflected in matt surfaces to generate depth.
With the right combination of light, volume and matter, a wall is no longer just an architectural boundary; it becomes a space to be lived in and a surface to be interpreted, telling its own design story.