Attico - by Kronos

A classic setting re-interpreted in a contemporary key.
A young home with culture that mixes functional spaces with a rarefied romantic atmosphere. To create it with free will of style, we chose a prestigious attic as our model and we re-invented it without upsetting its nature, daring with strange combinations: pure lines and curves, plaster and woodwork panelling, walls in soft black and white and spaces illuminated by minimum, unannounced and refined strokes of colour, echoes of light that reflect and shimmer in the prismatic game of glass-lined surfaces.

Light games, we said, and perspective games: high ceilings, high windows, telescopic doors which opening into a sort of “mise en abyme”, a dream within a dream, the place of entire understanding, in it’s complete meaning.
Meaning which is well illustrated by Alain de Botton (Architecture and Happiness, Guanda editorial ,2006) who writes : «furnishing a home is like building a love story».

We left the minimalism and the rigid architecture of the past years to return to the warm atmospheres of a home, which must be a shelter, but also a memory, a guardian of our past memories.Because our homes change with us and they tell us a story. Not aseptic living places, but real homes, alive, full of passion, of human activity. Only our materials are not part of the past: in our game of playing with allusions and fashions, we strived to find everything up to date, trendy, and frankly speaking, the best and most beautiful things one could find.
At this point, nothing remains but to open the door to our attic.

Et Voilà, cross the threshold of this attic. Smells, sensations, light. The visual impact and the emotional one. Everything becomes part of the World which each of us represent.
Spelling rhythms and styles. Materials and coverings translate the desire to get back to a more natural taste.
Going back to a romantic, retrò atmosphere. Understanding, re-interpretation and new forms of expression which uncover the imaginative market which was covered in dust by the traditions. Imperfections and patina of time, details which are an expression of superior values. A new and unpublished elegance, along with a new classic style.
The realization, totally decorative, lightly mixing imaginative
patterns, textures and decoration.
Et Voilà. This is what we reply to those who continuously ask “ What’s New ?”.

Since 1986 the conceptual artist Daniel Buran has one of his works of Art displayed in the Palais- Royal courtyard in Paris: It is a series of vertical black and white columns layed out in area of 3.000M2.The artworks title “ Les Due Plateaux”, but which everyone calls “The Buren Columns” displays the typical decorative motive of the artist, his visual resource or instrument, which has made him famous and which Buren has been using systematically since 1967: A print for curtain material with vertical wide stripes 8,7cm wide alternated with other coloured stripes of the same width.
The total indifference of the artist towards any narrative content of his works of Art, his desire for objectiveness and impersonality finds his most distinctive expression in this “ordinary” striped curtain fabric.
First used as a support for paintings, then as a stencil to cover the most varied of surfaces : walls, doors, billboards, road signs, stairs, trains, ships, flags, and waistcoat/ gilets for the museum custodians. Counting on this invariable visual resource, the alternating of white and coloured stripes, Daniel Buren investigates the relationship between the work of art, the place in which it takes life
and the spectactor.

This “Outil Visuel” or visual resource, in itself without great significance, acquires meaning only in relation to the surrounding in which it is applied to. The Buren stripes deviate ones gaze away from these stripes, inviting one to look elsewhere : the space that they cover, the environment in which they qualify, the perpective they offer. In other words they induce the spectator to establish a new and different relationship with their surroundings.
The examples of his extraordinary capacity to create ephemeral environments, liveable situations, visual resources, chromatic labyrinths are countless, better than most they are capable of recalling and implying the epoch in which we live. Epoch of exchanges, of transitions, of influences and contaminations.
Children of time, even the interior designer adjusts himself , putting forward solutions where surfaces and space penetrate each other with lots and lots of Glamour . Glamour as a matter of fact, is the new Kronos proposal which we adopted to design some spaces in our attic. A new collection which defines a home style and which brings decors and combinations typical of the fashion catwalk.
British, Total Black, Luxury, Bon Ton, Dandy, Transgression, Trend & Très Chic.

We were looking for something very exclusive and we found it. Within the conforming harmony of the lines, in the feeling of the material, the Bon Ton layout exalts the splendid chromatics between the beige field tile and the black “pois” décor within
the composition. Glamour is Glamorous .

The meaning of a decorative element doesn’t come from the element alone, but from the setting it finds itself in.
Acknowledgement, combinations and taints cooperate together simultaneously to bring precise visual and emotional sensations to our perception. So, it’s easy to imagine how these provoking studs, notionally tied to the punk era, can become chic and elegant.
Could this be the new Horizon of Bon Ton? Vivienne Westwood, the London stylist who dressed the Sex Pistols combined provocation and extreme punk elements together, such as chains and studs together with Victorian clothing. A creative stylistic move which established the basics of the punk image.
So there’s nothing really new or innovative in new fashion collections, where studs are amply shown in clothes and accessories, providing a touch of provocation to feminine elegance.

We can also find this spirit and new kind of styling experimentation elsewhere; an example above the rest is that of furnishing and interior design, which starting from single taste and fashion moods. The charm of fabrics and accessories together revaluate and transform the home surroundings into warm, welcoming alcoves as elegant as a precious garment.
From this basis, the Diamond mosaic was born, the latest “little temptation” from Kronos.
The studs which characterise the surface of the Diamond Decor are embellished by an iridescent, prismatic metal coloured glaze. The mosaic is on net and can be used for decorative bands, or for the most eclectics to full pattern creating a diamond shaped effect that it won’t leave indifferent the impassioned ones.
Choice of character or new bon ton pleasure?
Up to you the definition.

Ethereal reflections and iridescent enamels interpret geometries and volumes with the sweet musicality of jewels draperies. Light. Sweet. Maxy Luster is a delicate thought that moves the surfaces with elegance thanks to the volute assemblage.
A small dream within the range of many people.
Glazed porcelain mosaic that expresses unscrupulousness and character showing proudly its metal changing shades. The thin wands that compose the mosaic have a new cut of only 6 mm for 80 cm of height. Maxy Luster enriches the prestigious Luxury program that allows to mix in a game of progress different accessories for the house.
Now you can take your eyes off.