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Zoom touch « La Matière autrement »in partnership with manufacturers producing materials, is giving these materials new identities thanks to the imagination of architects and designers.

A “Table of Materials” entirely conceived and assembled by m@tériO, the independent library of innovative materials, will supplement and enrich the understanding of materials and the discussions initiated by these unusual set designs.

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The world’s leading producer of flat glass, AGC has always been a pioneer in its field of activity, and its history is interwoven with the major advances in the development of glass.

At Zoom Touch, AGC is presenting its new products (Glassiled, Lacobel, Artlite Digital, Matelac and Matelux) using multi-coloured totems in a setting dominated by black glass. Ground glass, satin finished glass, various shades of glass, ..., they are a permanent source of inspiration for architects and designers.

Electrical fittings and LEDs
“What’s important is unseen”…
Niko is a perfect illustration of this Antoine de St Exupéry quotation
Invisible switches that blend into the décor, whatever the wall material. Mysterious is the ideal design...
LEDs. are used for their environmental qualities
The set created for Zoom Touch suggests the rarity of Mysterious, presented in a black box that both reveals and enhances it…

Becker: pre-applied paints and Merck: Miraval pigments
A paint whose colours change with the light through the use of effect pigments. Colours created for prestige buildings. A patented manufacturing process for the rapid production and supply of the required colours and quantities. A quality of paint designed for its final use. In short, the product of innovative manufacturers who are leaders in their markets…
A set design that suggests the hard-wearing nature of the paint and how it changes with lighting.

Sensual, irresistible, a material that catches the eye and cries out to be touched, chain mail is popular with creatives in design, architecture, decoration or fashion…
Made to measure or available as ready to install panels, chain mail is uniform, highly technical, high performance and the heir to a genuine historical heritage.
A set design that highlights the qualities of the material

Bands of braided materials cover walls coated with a fine clay to evoke the cave dwellings of our distant past.

METALSKIN® wall panels by RESOLUMENT DECO
Like pictures in an art gallery, panels of composite materials, sprayed very finely with a second skin of metal, present the whole range of durable textures and effects that can be achieved today by this technique.

A space conceived and realized by Alexis Tricoire, featuring several long, semi rigid tubes or ‘lianas’ echoing the world of building and civil engineering. Completely covered by a variety of plants, these lianas are placed temporarily or permanently and they allow the roots of the plants to develop around the tube.

Zoom touch is created in partnership with Thema Design

Thema_Design is a consultancy that develops and implements communication strategies, press and public relations, organizes events, symposia and conferences, and carries out market surveys in relation to materials and innovation. It also works with companies in their efforts to innovate. Currently, no other organization offers a range of services like those of Thema_Design.

The Table of materials by m@teriO

Taking the opportunity of the 27th BATIMAT fair, matériO, European network of independant information on innovative materials and technologies,exhibits 50 products selected for their unquestionable appeal. The material library features the crème de la crème materials within the field of architecture and interior design : concrete fabrics, multifunction glasses, translucent leather panels, inflatable wood, flexible light, changing ceramics, etc. Don’t miss it!


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