This article is a continuation of Cersaie Exhibit 2012 photo review. You will find the first part following this link Cersaie 2012 photo review.
There isn't anything better than wood than wood itself, but tile manufacturers do not think so. This is the fifth consecutive year that, with the tenacity of the Vikings who are eager to expand, tile manufacturers release new imitation wood collections.
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| Marazzi Italia booth |
It is impossible to explain that one can lay real wood on the floors. These proud Roman Empire heirs wouldn't understand. They simply shake their heads and quietly laugh in response.
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| Imitation wood tile from Lea Ceramiche |
However, they have not discontinued the production of the collections released couple of years ago. As a result, there is a vast number of different imitation wood tile out there in the world.
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| Imitation wood tile from Mirage |
According to the roughest of the estimates, there are 800 imitation wood collections, each of which contains several types of wood.
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| Different shades of imitation wood tile in one collection. Cercom group |
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| Variety of imitation wood tiles. Manufactured by Impronta factory |
Most likely, there is an even greater amount of them out there.
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| Imitation wood tile. Faro factory |
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| Unobtrusive imitation wood tile. Granitoforte |
The desire to sell all this tile is pushing manufacturers to glue it on walls.
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| Monocibec. Imitation wood tile |
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| Dark imitation wood tile decorated by the hanging candy, Ariana factory |
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| One more imitation wood tile from Impronta Italgraniti |
Needless to say, imitation wood tile is recommended for the floor of any color bathroom. .
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| Impronta tile used in the interior design |
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| Imitation wood tile from Porcelanosa |
There is certainly a good reason behind such vast production of imitation wood tile. It is all about the infamous photo printing technology on stoneware. (take a look at our article on Digital jet printing on tile). A few manufacturers purchased such technology several years ago and printed imitation wood tile with good detailed imaging. The rest of the manufacturers decided to tighten their budgets and get in line for the next printer series. Such new technology recreates wood structure exceptionally well.
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| Marazzi Italia and imitation wood tile |
There is only one problem. There are a lot fewer popular wood types, than there are manufacturers that want to produce imitation wood tile. Not everyone is going to decide on making Indian banyan, when they clearly know that oak or walnut are going to sell that much better. Therefore, imitation wood tile of various manufacturers looks as much alike, as the members of various sections of the Chinese Communist party do.
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| АВК with its own version of imitation wood tile |
There are only a few exceptions. We captured almost everything that was slightly bit interesting at the exhibit in the imitation wood tile category. Here, for instance, we have imitation wood tile from Portuguese Cinca. It is a bit textured and looks like a board deck.
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| Imitation deck board tile from Cinca |
This shiny wood is from Italian Cisa.
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| Shiny imitation wood tile. Cisa factory |
This collection contains completely urban looking decors.
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| Imitation wood decors. Cisa factory. MyWood series. |
This is Gamma Due, they also have wood decors.
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| Imitation wood tile with design. Gamma Due |
Classical style decors from Tagina. This manufacturer generally likes to produce monumental type of tile for the bathrooms, with swirls and columns, therefore, no one would take them seriously if they did not have some type of swirls in the their imitation wood tile collection.
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| Imitation wood tile with a border. Tagina factory |
This parquet floor is from Ceramiche Ricchetti factory. This collection is produced under Roberto Cavalli brand, even though, in the best case scenario, Roberto himself only had a bite to eat with the company director. Both collections’ development, as well as its production take place entirely at the Ricchetti factory.
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| Imitation Roberto Cavalli brand tile, produced by Ceramiche Ricchetti |
This is a Martian looking tile from APE factory.
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| Imitation wood tile of inexplicable color. APE factory |
Of course imitation wood tile wasn't the only strength that Cersaie exhibit participants displayed. Besides imitation wood tile, manufacturers produced a good number of imitation stone tile. You can see our photo review in the following link Imitation stone tile. Cersaie 2012 photo review
Besides, manufacturers desplayed quite a lot of imitation cement tile and a lot of three dimensional decors
For those of you who did not read the very first and the most beautiful part of the photo review, we recommend that you following this link Cersaie 2012 photo review. Part I
