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M3S0 Eclettic

a Mosaico Rose 40x40

So today’s bathroom embraces all the trends

of past decades as just described, while

also expressing cultural references, social

behaviours, and widely differing attitudes to

home life. Liberation from technical constraints

(concerning production, sizes, mechanical

strength, durability and care) has gone hand-in-

hand with the acceptance of multiple aesthetic

codes, viewed as the mirror of the individual

lifestyle, with the utmost personalisation the

main objective. The result is the co-existence

of even conflicting trends. Coordinated design

scheme or destructuring, ostentation or

intimacy, decorative exuberance or minimalism,

a Mediterranean mood (majolica or cement tiles)

or Nordic purity (wood, neutral colours), natural

or man-made, high-tech or craftsmanship,

nostalgia or avant-garde.

Another contemporary trend is a fresh,

experiential vision of the bathroom. While

in past times the design benchmark was the

archetypal bourgeois salle de bain, nowadays

there are other templates, such as spas

(hedonistic places of physical and mental

regeneration), or design/boutique hotels (a

relaxation experience of original luxury, in a

complete break with daily life). New public

images of wellbeing, to be transported into the

home. All firmly centred on the individual.

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