Florim Translates Venetian Terrazzo into Twelve-Tone Porcelain

Italian ceramic manufacturer Florim has launched SensiVenezia, a porcelain stoneware collection of twelve colors that reinterprets traditional Venetian terrazzo in large-format slabs measuring up to 120×120 cm.

Matteo Thun and Benedetto Fasciana designed the series, which draws on the architecture, canals and reflected light of the Venetian lagoon. The palette's colorways carry the names of iconic Venetian sites: Arsenale, Fenice, Rialto and Giudecca among them. Florim describes the collection as a chromatic portrait of the city, spanning its grand architecture, lagoon light and quiet island landscapes.

The designers also cite Carlo Scarpa's compositional sensitivity as a reference, translating his layered approach to material into surfaces with graphic depth. SensiVenezia extends a lineage Florim began with the earlier Sensi and SensiTerre collections, both also created with Thun and Fasciana.

What finishes and formats does the collection offer?

Each color comes in two surface finishes. A uniform matte creates visual continuity across floors and walls. A soft finish adds tactile depth, with subtle marble and glass highlights catching the light.

The stoneware is available in two thicknesses, 9 mm and 20 mm, in modular sizes and large-format slabs. The large formats minimize joint lines, producing continuous surfaces that highlight the graphic rhythm of Venetian terrazzo. A porphyry-effect body beneath incorporates fine, medium and large aggregates, dotted with subtle opalescent points that echo time-worn stone. The aggregates allow varied readings of terrazzo, from dense layouts to more expressive compositions.

Completing the range is Scacchiera, a 30×30 cm mesh-mounted decorative element. Its geometric layout forms a textile-like pattern, offering a counterpoint to the field surfaces.

Florim targets residential, hospitality and commercial spaces with the collection, positioning regional craftsmanship within contemporary architectural programs. The company frames the ongoing partnership with Thun and Fasciana as an exploration of the relationship between material, color and space, pairing technical precision with Italy's material culture. Across the Sensi ecosystem, sensory experience serves as the foundational principle, blending memory, craft and technology into a unified architectural language.

The launch signals where Florim's Sensi platform is heading: terrazzo read not as a nostalgic pattern but as a scalable industrial product, with Venice supplying the chromatic script.