Nel blu dipinto di blu!

So many shades for an ever-trendy colour

Lovers of shades of blue? We are too. From the most electric and original tones to more shaded and powdery ones, blue is one of the most chic colours for stoneware finishes, ideal for giving an original elegant touch to home coverings; perfect with any interior design, whether modern, vintage or urban-chic, for obtaining an original creative mix of undoubted effect.

Blue: a colour of a thousand shades

Contrary to what is commonly thought, blue adapts to any surroundings; you just need to choose the right tonality. Often and deliberately, blue characterises the interior design of homes at the sea but, with the right touches, it can also be used in the city. Blue is a colour that expresses personality and recalls, with natural immediacy, elements such as air and water, the sea and the sky. In all its forms it transmits balance, serenity, harmony and purity, and is normally used for surroundings intended for rest and relaxation. A primary colour, like red and yellow, it’s always trendy and finds thousands of ways of application in interior design, both with regards to the finishings of walls and floors, and for furnishing accessories.

It’s easy to say blue…

Blue is one of the best-loved colours in design and in textures; it offers us a really vast chromatic scale in which, at times, it’s easy to get lost. Blue comes in a huge number of shades: to give just a few examples: aquamarine, the colour of the precious stone of the same name, light blue, typical of the facades of sea homes, sky blue, the “pastel” shade typical of light eyes, turquoise, which tends almost towards green, the dark ultramarine blue visible in the skies of Giotto’s paintings, Prussian blue, dark and tending towards black and…. many others.

The most original combinations

When matching the “faces” of blue with other colours, it’s necessary to pay attention to its dominant characteristics, which should be tempered in some way. In this sense, it goes well with pink-red, green-yellow, white and all shades of grey. Sky blue and the other lighter tonalities go well with wood shades, while the white-blue combination can lend an area light and summer freshness. Perhaps the most beautiful shades are seen when blue is combined with other colours like beige, grey or the different shades of pink, ideal for obtaining a vintage feel.

Contemporary retro thanks to blue

1950s graphics, original formats and colour combinations from the 1960s and 1970s? Thanks to Ceramica Fioranese, it’s possible to have lots of different collections available for personalising and enhancing living areas using blue in all its various shades. If you’re looking for delicate but striking atmospheres, the Passepartout collection could be the right choice, thanks to the use of volumetric ceramic panels in porcelain stoneware. The collection offers a scale of mute pastel colours with a matt finish, including Rusty Blue, with which it’s possible to create numerous different combinations, evoking a timeless elegance. The different Cementine tile collections offer an interesting alternative for those who love a vintage taste and the different shades of blue, for example, the Cementine_20 transform classic motifs into contemporary patterns, in which the colour is the protagonist for re-inventing surroundings with a new “decor”. Here light blue, blue and sky blue coexist together in harmony with colours of the earth, ochre and different shades of red. If you’re looking for something more graphic, you could choose the Cementine_Retrò collection, in which the new designs reinterpret the history of the mythical hexagonal tile. Here blues, in every shade, interact with original graphics and unexpected combinations, creating unique decorative effects. If, instead, you prefer a particularly linear style, Fioranese proposes the Formelle_20 line, with a romantic mood, in which it’s possible to combine light blues and powdery sky blues with dove grey and other greys with delicate nuances in order to create really atmospheric palettes. Cementine_Cocci are special and unique, perfect for those who love particular colours and combinations between strong and more delicate colours; this collection includes Cocci_Blu, in which the patterns have a balanced yet really striking alternation of cold colours and light blues. If you are a lover of the 1950s, looking for graphics that reinterpret the allure of the period, the Liquida collection will amaze you with its six pastel colours including sugar-paper blue. With Liquida, decorations will become sure protagonists of your living spaces, veritable furnishing elements.