The ceramics of architecture have often used other decorative repertoires for the reproduction of surfaces. After the second world war given the necessity for reconstructing the country, tiles had a great development as a hygienic sanitary material: a simplified product was required, with perhaps single colour veinings (the famous "nuvolati", with drops of glazes and aspi, reminiscent of a sort of vibration), rather than designed according to the canons of "wallpaper" characterised by the segmentation of the graphics into repeatable base modules. But repetitive terminology or repetitive modular for the creation of a unique pattern was dear also to ante litteram textures such as "salt and pepper", very much admired in overseas markets and made up of dark dots spread here and there on light coloured ceramic bases.
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