Design Buy Build Issue 40 2019 | Page 64

Provenza New Products at Cersaie 2019. Alter: Mingling Eras and Inspirations, Nature and Ground-Breaking Research. Authenticity achieved through original aesthetic research: this is the essence of Alter, a collection that embodies the soul of the Provenza brand, initially inspired by specific features of antique wood and then evolving into new cross-fertilisations, opening out fresh, new design pathways and offering the building-blocks for interiors with new visual experiences. Alter's creative core is a very special wood: an exquisite salvaged oak, reworked and embellished with coloured resin insertsthat generate a creative short-circuit of rare power, partly natural and partly conceived by man, echoes of the past and portents of the future. Alter's aesthetic strikes clever balances between tactile consistencies that give it an unusual versatility, the basis for interior designs with varying inspirations. The antique beauty of oak wood receives an unusual interpretation: bright and shining, to give light to both simple interiors and designs that elaborate on the contemporary love of crossovers between periods, styles and inspirations. There are four colours: Sbiancato, Miele, Noce and Bruciato. These shades are offered in the 20x120 cm (7 7/8”x47 1/4”) size, enabling Alter to express all its modular potential and meet the needs of rooms with the most widely varying structures, and a 6.5x60 cm (2 9/16”x23 5/8”) size to extend the floor and wall covering layouts available. Further architectural prospects are provided by the 60x60 cm (23 5/8” x23 5/8”) size, styled to resemble cross-cut wood dipped in resin: an image of great strength, merging the power of oak with the brightness of resin finishing. The Alter resin colours have been selected for perfect matching with the stone-inspired hues of the Ego collection, also new from Provenza, making the two concepts naturally compatible and further extending the design potential of these 64 ground-breaking coverings, uniquely juxtaposing the salvage theme with an avant-garde aesthetic. Emilgroup brand Provenza displays the beauty of nature, celebrating the signs of time and salvaged materials. Exquisite products with innovative concepts, where craftsmen's skill meets the most sophisticated technologies, for an avant-garde range of great refinement. A favourite with interior decorators, it provides exclusive details and excellent quality, both in strong, high-design colours and in the warmer, more reassuring shades of nature www.emilgroup.it/en