“My passion for horses has always been at the heart of the creative process.” This is how the Canadian designer, owner of the Cat_lab studio, Catherine Braconier, reveals the origin (and source of inspiration) for Equus, the collection of floor and wall surfaces in porcelain stoneware made by the young company based in Fiorano Modenese, Sartoria, Terratinta Group (founded in 2018).

Presented in a wide range of colors, textures and finishes that allows them to be laid in endless combinations, the three subjects FIELD, HOOF and PAVÉ reproduce the natural colors of horses’ coats, the prints left by their hoofs rendered in the combination of two different finishes (opaque and polished), the wisps of hay set in thin regular grooves in the surface of the material and the singular geometry of the paving laid specially for horses.

This original collection perpetuates the philosophy of an ambitious company, one capable of going beyond the “confines of the classic” in search of greater creative freedom. Underlying it is a solid ceramic craft tradition, combined with the beauty of the imperfections of semi-craft techniques and the innovation of modern technology, enabling it to create products notable for meticulous workmanship and sophisticated stylistic and architectural elegance.

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