Pure Alchemy!

Decoration workshop

The decoration workshops were born in 2012 to meet the need to achieve finished product with in­creasingly high level in order to guarantee our customers an always higher quality. Decoration process in Sice Pre­vit Company goes from classical finish of the furnishings up to innovative wall finishes which follow contemporary trends, as well as the customers’ stylistic needs. The team consists of seven decorators, each one with his specific and highly professional skills. This close-knit team is the real resource of this department. The passion that cha­racterizes our decorators and their different backgrounds allow having a greater creative capacity thus giving an ad­ded value to the entire productive process… 

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Waterborne UV curing coating for a 5 stars hotel: sustainability and high performances

Overlooking the Old City of Jerusalem, the five-star David Citadel Hotel of Alrov Group, designed in 1998 by Moshe Safdie, the Israeli architect naturalized Canadian winner of the AIA Gold Medal award, is the south side of the Mamilla Quarter, in front of the historic Valley Hinome, according to a

horseshoe plan. The outer covering is made of a rough local limestone, while the interior is covered with wood walls and wood false ceilings.

All common areas, 385 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and spread over 8 floors of the

building, according to a design by the Italian Lissoni Associati who, by keeping the use of traditional

materials and colours complemented by other alternative ones treated in an original way, designed

the environment as a maze enhanced by the study of natural and artificial light, rich in vegetation.

A rich palette of colours, lights, textured fabrics, parts made of brass treated with different finishes joined with glasses printed on the back, with a central idea connected to the use of wood, oak for the

floor, the heat-treated eucalyptus for the walls and the furniture in the common areas and suites,

characterize and personalize all the areas, both public and the private ones of the rooms.

«The mood of each room is characterised by the prevalence of some "colours" - tells us Alessandro Simonato, manager of the office design of the Tino Sana company located in Almenno S. Bartolomeo (in the province Bergamo) who has been commissioned to manufacture all the furniture - especially the eucalyptus heat-treated dark wood, iron or burnished brass, and the "Mondrian effect" obtained with surfaces made of brass treated  in different ways, mirrors, glasses printed on the back».

Belonging to an international luxury hotel chain with high quality and surface resistance requirements

suggested Tino Sana design office to choose carefully materials and finishes.

«In the rooms – goes on Simonato – we chose, instead of heat-treated eucalyptus wood, some veneered panels with pre-dyed wood coated with waterborne UV curing paints, for "coarse", visual effect so as to enhance the matt wood».

Thanks to the cooperation of Elia Maestroni, Key Account Manager of IVM Chemicals company and the technical support of the R&D laboratory, it has been developed a coating cycle that allows to reach a surface resistance comparable to other non-wood finishes, which is an essential feature for hotel furnishing of a hotel, of course, that is subjected to large mechanical stresses and to the use of detergents for cleaning.

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Wooden floors: natural unevenesses for a sustainable product

The presence on the market of materials

alternative to wood that reproduce its aesthetic

appearance  has changed the perception of the

consumer, which tends to ask for  floors with  large

sizes  or “herringbone” recovering the idea of

the floors "nailed down" of the past and with natural

appearance.

For durability and surface resistance requirements and

in order to make easier the maintenance, the market

actually includes almost only industrially treated

and coated floors that guarantee a stable quality.

Naturalness and old floors atmosphere: to meet these

trends, Tavar floors finish can be obtained also by

using dyed reagents, both traditional and waterborne.

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A material surface for the facade of the University of Hertfordshire’s Science Building

The Science Building, on the one hand, fully expresses its function through a maximum reduction of
the elements, while on the other, the choice of an ‘emotional’ coating, linked to materials that resonate with revisited local traditions, addressing the facade’s theme with suggestive implications. The building’s ‘skin’ - with the exclusion of the north wall - is composed of a double facade whose external part is composed of rectangular modules of drilled metal panels, which, in addition to acting as solar shades, create a ‘waved’ effect thanks to the disposition “open/close“ of the rectangular panels. The internal wrapper is a glass parallelepiped with exposed steel stringcourses.

The southwest corner marks the entrance, obtained by a hollowing out both the parallelepiped in bottom half as well as the top half, in which a symbolic tree will be placed.
The characteristic coating of the drilled metal panels is obtained with a special powder coating- Patina collection by Adapta Color, based in Pensicola, Spain, color Turquoise Cooper - accentuates the facades dynamic ‘wave’ effect which varies with the incidence of the light and the perspective of the observer. The bicolor effect obtained is very ‘material’ as it creatively reproduces oxidized copper.
The low environmental impact powder coating creates a suggestive effect, which would otherwise be difficult to achieve, except and at an extremely high cost, using copper, the inspired material.

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