Jesolo, Netherlands Antilles, London: In the most beautiful places in the world, luxurious buildings are furnished with ceramic tiles from Mosa.
Jesolo, Netherlands Antilles, London: In the most beautiful places in the world, luxurious buildings are furnished with ceramic tiles from Mosa.
A white cube surrounded by wind-bent pines. In the garage: a gold-colored vintage car. On the walls in the entrance hang lamps in the shape of a female breast. They are joined by massive wooden furniture. On the floor of the rather extravagant house: tiles of the Dutch manufacturer Mosa.
Whether it's the cubic house with the unusual interior by Dutch design duo Studio Job, the snow-white villa on the beach in Jesolo, the vacation retreat in the Netherlands Antilles, the converted water tower in London or the terraced luxury apartment in Winterthur - all these architectural projects have one thing in common: they are fitted with tiles from Mosa.
Discover the possibilities
The Dutch manufacturer produces ceramic floor, wall, terrace and façade tiles - around six million square meters per year, since 1883 already. In the design studio, ten employees develop the collections, often in close consultation with architects. Some series are even designed specifically for certain architectural projects. This is because Mosa has production lines at its factory in Maastricht that also enable the manufacture of small series. Where other series producers assume a minimum production of 10,000 to 20,000 square meters of tiles, at the Dutch production is possible from just a few hundred square meters. All collections are also produced sustainably - in accordance with the cradle-to-cradle principle (recycling of materials, reduction of waste, energy saving).
Tile production at Mosa Hidden Luxury
Products from Mosa offer a wide range of design options: Unglazed surfaces, for example, look very natural, glossy textures evoke vastness, subtly iridescent colors create warmth. Architectural projects all over the world show just how diverse Mosa's collections are with their countless sizes, colors and textures, and what visual effects can be achieved with them. The company's focus: the contract sector with architects and designers as the main target group, which is why apartments and houses in the high-end segment are often furnished with Mosa tiles. And here, design issues traditionally play a major role, followed by functional aspects - in both interior and exterior design, as demonstrated by a new-build villa by JM Architecture in Jesolo, Italy.
Knacks and effects
The L-shaped house by the sea stands on a 550-square-meter plot. Architect Jacopo Mascheroni removes the boundaries between inside and outside and evokes airy expansiveness - using geometries, materials and colors. The clients had wanted a house that would be easy to maintain and easy to care for, which ruled out wood as a building material from the start. Instead: Mosa ceramic tiles, which cleverly accentuate the bright white of the house and its transparency without appearing sterile. The Quartz collection is used both indoors and out - on the walls and on the floor, in the pool and around the pool. "The tiles work with both natural and artificial light" says the architect, stressing that the tiles should be used to create a homely atmosphere. Mascheroni cleverly uses the possibilities of the Quartz collection: different tile sizes and shades create depth, for example, and a darker shade on the walls of the pool creates a frame that defines it as an architectural element in its own right.
Another project also blurs the lines between inside and outside. Architect Christian Lefèvre built a house in Bormes-Les-Mimosas, France, that blends camouflage-like into its surroundings, thanks to the Quartz collection, which was laid both indoors and out. The tiles' grainy texture resembles natural sand with its shimmering particles. "The speckled, matte surface of the tiles catches the light and makes them look decidedly soft," says the architect, explaining his choice.
Historic architecture also works with Mosa's collections, as a converted water tower in London shows. The 19th-century listed building was transformed by ACR Architects into a seven-story, airy home, with the addition of a glass cube docked to the facade. Here is the open-plan kitchen-living room, which appears extremely light, thanks in part to the flooring. The Terra Maestricht tile collection from Mosa matches the interior of the house well in its simplicity, but is also extremely hard-wearing. This also predestines them for use in the bathroom. On the floor and walls of the bathrooms in the water tower: the series in off-white gray.
Indestructible
The Dutch manufacturer's tile collections offer architects a great deal of design freedom and harmonize well with materials such as wood and stainless steel. Patterns, sizes and colors adapt in their versatility to quite different architectural and interior design styles. Their robustness, which comes from the manufacturing process - extreme pressure during shaping and high firing temperatures - make the tiles a uniquely durable product that loses none of its functionality and beauty even after years.
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