Danilo Ramazzotti COTTO ZERO COTTO STORICO PIEMONTESE Handmade terracotta floor/wall tiles

When you enter churches and ancient palaces in our territory, you often come across marvellous Terracotta floors.‎ These are very special terracotta floors, a deep pinkish colour and interwoven with small fragments ranging from ivory to terracotta-coloured.‎ These terracotta floors tell the story of everyday craftsmanship, made by mixing the main local clays that contained everything nature had to offer: impurities, fragments of different clays, small pebbles.‎.‎.‎ Thus, what was once simply the fruit of what the soil offered, was transformed over the centuries into a very precise material, as part of a code, capable of providing us with the historical period of reference of the construction itself.‎ After centuries, we decided to give a new voice to our historical Terracotta.‎ This Terracotta was created to be aesthetically similar to the Terracotta of our ancestors, but loaded with all the pluses of CottoZero.‎ Such a precious Terracotta with such a special colour could only be inspired by a woman and a love story; thus, in our kilns "reborn" the historical Piedmontese Terracotta dedicated to the "Bella Rusin".‎ CottoZero: handmade Terracotta as it was once made.‎ CottoZero is a project born out of the Ramazzotti family's desire to transform handmade Terracotta into a high-performance material suited to the rhythms and needs of contemporary life.‎ The raw materials were the first object of study.‎ The precious clays with which CottoZero is made come from the Piedmontese deposits at the foot of Monte Rosa, quarried within the UNESCO Sesia Val Grande Geopark, a unique place precisely because of its geological formation, rich in many deposits of pure clays with great differences.‎ This careful research, starting with the quality and characteristics of the raw materials, continues with the analysis and optimisation of all the production phases.‎ For this reason, TerracottaZero is today a high-performance handmade Terracotta that is unique on the market; compact, resistant, breathable, highly resistant to stains and easy to maintain.‎ CottoZero combines the beauty and naturalness of a handmade material with the practicality and taste of a contemporary material.‎ Features: - Handmade Terracotta - Extremely compact.‎ - High mechanical resistance.‎ - Very low absorbency.‎ - High resistance to stains.‎ - Extremely easy to clean and maintain.‎ - Completely natural and breathable.‎ - Suitable for laying with underfloor heating.‎ available formats: 8x33x2 cm 10x20x2 cm 10x40x2 cm 12x48x2 cm 14x60x2.‎5 cm 15x30x2 cm 20x40x2 cm 20x60x3 cm 20x80x3 cm 30x60x2 cm rhombus: 16,5x29x2 cm hexagon: side 11 cm thickness 2 cm - side 16 cm thickness 2 cm special pieces: Skirting boards: with bevel finish 8x33x2 cm with bevel finish 8x34x2 cm Steps: 1 side chamfer/bevel 20x35x3 cm 2 sides "L" chamfer/bevel 22,5x35x3 cm Steps: 1 side chamfer/chamfer 100x35x3 cm 2 sides "L" chamfer/chamfer 100x35x3 cm 3 sides chamfer/chamfer 100x35x3 cm Finish: hand-polished CUSTOM MADE: special formats on request / ground sides on request Further info from manufacturer on COTTO ZERO COTTO STORICO PIEMONTESE Danilo Ramazzotti