- VENEZIA ARTE AT THE MILAN FURNITURE FAIR 2011 THE APPEAL OF GLASS PIONEERS A NEW MATERIAL CONCEPT
At the Material ConneXion space at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, Venezia Arte is showcasing its glass collections, unique customised pieces that lend shape and colour to imagination
12 April 2011 - At the International Furniture Fair in Milan from 12 to 17 April, Venezia Arte is showcasing its decorated glass collections, products that offer a journey through the world of colour and creativity. Vivid, exciting colours enhance the beauty of glass and provide new and highly customised solutions for the world of interior design.
The Venezia Arte glass tile collections are displayed in the Material ConneXion space, a major international showcase aimed at interior and furnishing designers in search of the most innovative proposals for architecture.
Visitors to the show can admire the latest lines, Creativity and Make Up, which offer highly customised solutions for interior surface coverings with potential for creating totally unique pieces.
Creativity is a glass tile line that uses a patented production process based on high-resolution UV printing to transfer a photographic quality image directly onto the glass.
The Make Up series offers an unlimited tonal range with plain or pearlescent fields of colour. The collection is available with two surface finishes, one perfectly smooth and neutral and the other skilfully textured to enhance the sheen effect.
The glass can be shaped by waterjet cutting to further customise the end result.
At the Milan Furniture Fair Venezia Arte is also showcasing its Metalli, Pietre Preziose and Rilievi collections. The Metalli and Pietre Preziose floor and wall tile collections are elegant, sophisticated furnishing solutions in which the transparency of the glass is enhanced by the use of precious raw materials such as gold, silver, copper and platinum. The Rilievi extra-white low-relief glass tile collection offers new expressive and design freedom based on transparency and chiaroscuro effects, further refined by sinuous floral decorations.
Venezia Arte is hosted in the Material ConneXion Exhibit Space, entrance to Halls 14-18, Fiera Rho Pero
Venezia Arte, the Ancora Group-Levitiles brand name used in Italy and worldwide for the new decorated glass tiles produced using a patented production process, pays tribute to Venice, the world capital of glass art, and Italian creativity. It offers the interior design market original decoration solutions created using an extremely high resolution (1200x1200 dpi) cold decoration process based on an exclusive inkjet printing system. The finished product combines prestigious colour and decoration effects with outstanding technical and performance characteristics.
- ANCORA GROUP AT REVESTIR 2011 WITH VENEZIA ARTE
Versatility and elegance with decorated glass tiles for interior design:
Venezia Arte to take part in Expo Revestir from 22 to 25 March 2011 in São Paulo
The new Venezia Arte decorated glass tile collections will be on display at Expo Revestir 2011, the most important international architecture and building materials exhibition in Latin America which will be held from 22 to 25 March in the Transmerica Expo Center in São Paulo.
Venezia Arte is the brand name used for the sale of decorated glass tiles produced by Levitiles, a company owned by Sassuolo-based Ancora Group. An innovative solution for contemporary interior design trends, the brand is enjoying increasing success in Brazil.
“We confirm our belief that it is of strategic importance to present the new Venezia Arte collections at this exhibition, which caters for designers in search of the most interesting new products and innovative materials for interior architecture in Latin America, a new market for us and one in which there is great deal of creative activity at the present time,” explained Ancora Group’s Managing Director Fabio Corradini.
Creativity and Make Up, the new collections from Venezia Arte, offer highly customised solutions for interior surface coverings with potential for creating totally unique pieces.
Creativity is a glass tile line that uses a patented production process based on high-resolution UV printing to transfer a photographic quality image directly onto the glass.
The Make Up series further broadens the creative scope of Venezia Arte glass tiles, offering an unlimited tonal range with plain or pearlescent fields of colour. Make Up is available with two surface finishes, one perfectly smooth and neutral and the other skilfully textured to enhance the sheen effect.
Venezia Arte was created specifically for a new extremely high resolution (1200x1200 dpi) cold decoration system. Using an exclusive inkjet printing system, it delivers outstanding colour and decorative effects and a finished product with unique technical characteristics and performance.
Ancora Group is taking part in Revestir through Venezia Arte: Ruas K/L - Stand 375
- ANCORA GROUP REPORTS GROWTH IN 2010
The economic crisis is beginning to slacken, as confirmed by the signs of growth reported by a number of manufacturing companies. One such company is the Sassuolo-based Ancora Group, whose balance sheet indicates a growth in turnover in 2010 to 43 million euro (+19%). This follows on from the already good result of 36 million euro in the difficult previous year. The company currently employs 265 people and has planned investments of more than 5 million euro over the three-year period 2009-2011. These concrete figures indicate the vitality of the Group, a well-established industrial concern in the Sassuolo manufacturing district specialising in two main areas, mechanical engineering and finishing. The mechanical engineering division designs and manufactures machinery and complete lines for finishing ceramic tiles. It operates in 40 countries worldwide and has installed more than 810 lines. The Finishing Division is the largest third party production centre in the world, specialising in polishing, lapping, cutting and grinding of ceramic tiles.
The Ancora Group is internationally renowned for its cutting-edge mechanical products and high-precision machining operations using the most advanced technologies. The Group’s products are used by leading ceramic manufacturers the world over. It has achieved growth due to the quality of its machinery as well as a robust sales strategy backed by a number of national and international patents. Ancora Group includes the Venezia Arte brand and the companies HiCoat Coating System, LeviKurve, Levitiles and Cimas and the two branches in Spain and Brazil.
- VENEZIA ARTE DEBUTS AT BIG 5 2010
Decorated crystal for interior design: Venezia Arte to take part in BIG 5 from 22 to 25 November 2010 in Dubai
Ancora Group is taking part in BIG 5 through Venezia Arte: Rashid Hall - Stand D241
- TECNARGILLA 2010
- THE APPEAL OF COLOURED GLASS FOR INTERIOR DESIGN
The new glass tile lines from Venezia Arte offer a journey into the world of colour and creativity. Vivid, exciting colours enhance the beauty of glass and provide new and original solutions for the world of interior design.
Creativity and Make Up, the new lines from Venezia Arte, offer highly customised solutions for interior surface coverings with potential for creating totally unique pieces.
Creativity is a glass tile line that uses a patented production process based on high-resolution UV printing to transfer a photographic quality image directly onto the glass.
Expert professionals help customers choose images and define their projects, enabling them to bring their ideas into sharp focus and achieve results that fully satisfy their desires. The Creativity series is available in smooth glass in sizes from 12x12 cm to 60x100 cm and with a textured surface from a 2.5x2.5 cm mosaic up to a large 60x60 cm size. The glass can be shaped by waterjet cutting to further customise the end result.
The purity of glass is enhanced by the appeal of colour and light. The Make Up series further broadens the creative scope of Venezia Arte glass tiles, offering an unlimited tonal range with plain or pearlescent fields of colour. Make Up is available with two surface finishes, one perfectly smooth and neutral and the other skilfully textured to enhance the sheen effect.
The sizes of the Make Up series can likewise be customised: the smooth version is available in sizes ranging from 12x12 cm through to a maximum of 60x100 cm and the textured finish version in sizes from a 2.5x2.5 cm mosaic up to 60x60 cm sheets.
Here too, special shapes can be created by waterjet cutting.
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- NEW VENEZIA ARTE ADVERTISEMENT
- VENEZIA ARTE DEBUTS AT REVESTIR 2010
Decorated crystal for interior design: Venezia Arte to take part in Expo Revestir from 9 to 12 March 2010 in São Paulo
Venezia Arte, the new brand specially created for marketing decorated crystal produced by the company Levitiles (owned by Ancora Group of Sassuolo), will be taking part in Expo Revestir 2010 with a view to entering the architectural furnishings and interior design market. The foremost international architecture and building materials exhibition in Latin America will be held from 9 to 12 March in the Transmerica Expo Center in São Paulo. “We believe it to be of strategic importance to present Venezia Arte at this exhibition, which caters for designers in search of the most interesting new products and innovative materials for interior architecture,” explained Ancora Group’s Managing Director Fabio Corradini. “Venezia Arte certainly has the right qualities to meet the expectations of the most demanding professionals in the sector.” As a result of the Group’s unflagging research efforts, its consolidated manufacturing experience and an in-depth analysis of the sector, it has developed a truly unique material, an original decorative proposal for contemporary architecture. Venezia Arte was created specifically for a new extremely high resolution (1200x1200 dpi) cold decoration system. Using an exclusive inkjet printing system, it delivers outstanding colour and decorative effects and a finished product with unique technical characteristics and performance. The addition of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum assures an original metallic appearance. Together with the transparency of the glass, this gives the installed material an appealing opalescent look in both the smooth and textured versions. It is also possible to create custom projects. Venezia Arte aims to offer the market new ideas and decorative solutions in the three collections Metalli, Pietre Preziose and Rilievi.
El Gruppo Ancora, con Venezia Arte, estará en Revestir: Corredor M, 169.
- VENEZIA ARTE ADVERTISEMENT
Levitiles presents the first advertisement of Venezia Arte, dedicated to the design world, in order to present to the architects and to the interior designers this new brand, the stylistic proposals and the expressive potentialities of a new material for the internal architecture: the crystal sheets decorated with high definition.
The visual of the a.m. Advertisement, planed for the second six months of 2009 on Materia and Ceramic International, shows the new collections with refined simplicity and immediacy.
- NEW VENEZIA ARTE COLLECTIONS TO DEBUT AT CERSAIE
Venezia Arte is making its debut at Cersaie 2009, hall 16 stand A/27 with its new extra white glass tile range featuring high-definition decorations: Metalli, Pietre Preziose and Rilievi. These three new original and exclusive collections allow for custom decoration solutions in residential, commercial and collective spaces.
The addition of precious metals such as gold, silver and platinum makes for an original metallic appearance which, together with the transparency of the glass, gives the installed tiles an appealing opalescent look in both the smooth and textured versions.
Venezia Arte plays with colour and gives spaces appealing luminous atmospheres. The possibility of combining the glass collections with other floor and wall covering materials allows for the utmost creative freedom in contemporary architecture and interior design.
Venezia Arte is an Ancora – Levitiles group brand created specifically for an extremely high resolution (1200x1200 dpi) cold decoration system. Using an exclusive inkjet printing system, it delivers outstanding colour and decorative effects and a finished product with unique technical and performance characteristics. Based on its constant search for innovation and industrial experimentation, its consolidated manufacturing experience and an in-depth market analysis, the Group has developed a truly unique material.
