Mattonelle Margherita tile collection by Nathalie Du Pasquier for Mutina.

“A slightly futuristic dinette, but still a dinette,” says French-born, Milan-based designer and artist Nathalie Du Pasquier about her latest collection for Mutina.

“These tiles look great paired with a gleaming white gas cooker, your aunt’s cupboard, but also with an induction hob and remote-controlled cabinets. Actually, it is the perfect collection for tiny spaces, with floors, mouldings and walls entirely covered in different graphics; or a full wall in an American-looking kitchen; or even as an edged floor in the living room of a summer house, with a 60-inch television. It’s perfect for walking barefoot inside a beautiful Sicilian villa, but also in slippers on the tenth floor of a building in Cinisello Balsamo. The pieces of Mattonelle Margherita can be combined in so many ways, just like old-fashioned ceramics, but they are also extremely contemporary, without heeding passing fashions.”

Nathalie Du Pasquier‘s Mattonelle Margherita ceramic tile collection for Mutina champions colours and patterns, delivering a complex project that features a blend of different aesthetic and formal means of expression. The collection is characterised by a dual concept: on the one hand, a simple, minimalist style, evident in the plain-coloured elements, and on the other, a courageous, creative approach, characterised by a large variety of graphics.

The Mattonelle Margherita universe is composed of 41 different patterns, designed by hand: 27 graphics and 6 plain elements, created in glazed porcelain stoneware, with a traditional industrial production method of the kind used in the past.

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[Images courtesy of Mutina. Photography by Delfino Sisto Legnani.]