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Kreoo: the experience of marble, the design of excellence

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That of marble is a thousand-year history. In ancient Greek its name meant “shining stone”, to indicate the charm that the Greeks, the Romans and, even before, the peoples of Mesopotamia, nourished towards its shiny and bright appearance. In fact, the ancients used to define as “marble” all the polished glittering stones. Only subsequently the term was limited to granular and compact limestones which can be polished and therefore used as decorative elements. Such a rich heritage has been entirely converged into Kreoo, whose name is inspired, certainly not by chance, by classical Greece, with which the Italian company shares the model of harmonious, chromatically connoted and experiential beauty. Belonging to the best Italian tradition of marble manufacturing and its evolution as a high-end design product, Kreeo collaborates with renowned designers such as Enzo Berti, Marco Piva, Matteo Nunziati and Sebastiano Zilio.

Pearl Airpool Tub, designed by Alberto Apostoli <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Pearl Airpool Tub, designed by Alberto Apostoli
Image copyright: @Kreoo
Royal Collection, designed by Christophe Pillet <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Royal Collection, designed by Christophe Pillet
Image copyright: @Kreoo

Founded in 2010 by the experience of Decormarmi, a landmark in the Italian marble scene, to give further development to collaborations with designers and architects and select the most suitable marbles for custom-made projects, Kreeo boasts an international distribution. From Europe to the United States, from the Middle East to Russia, passing through India and Oceania, Kreoo features major international projects in the world of five-star hospitality and luxury residential. Giving value to the powerful versatility of marble, a material that can vary its multiform veins and colors according to the different materials present in the rock, the company offers shapes and aesthetic compositions of various hues.

Enriching the marble with material emotions by combining it with glass, wood or metals, Kreeo has coined a fascinating formal and chromatic language, which bends to different environments and products. From the bathroom to the living room, from the wall tiles to the furnishing accessories, from the floors to the illuminated bodies, of private residences, public environments, imposing structures and boutique hotels. The same language, which speaks a vocabulary in balance between ancient memories and contemporaneity, is found in freestanding tanks, washbasins,  tables, coffee tables or, again, in three-dimensional surfaces with inlays or carvings.

The potential of marble is pushed to the limit, up to the imitation of tactile weaves similar to fabrics or silhouettes with sculptural shapes of value. In addition to the rich catalogue of Kreeo collections and products, dedicated to both indoor and outdoor environments, there is the possibility of customized proposals, thanks to a production chain of excellence where craftsmanship and manual processing are at the core.

Dame Freestanding, designed by Christophe-Pillet <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Dame Freestanding, designed by Christophe-Pillet
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Blessed countertop washbasin with Dame Bowl and Royal L vase. The collections are designed by Christophe Pillet <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Blessed countertop washbasin with Dame Bowl and Royal L vase. The collections are designed by Christophe Pillet
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Explore Kreoo's Collections

Curated by Christophe Pillet, the Blessed line project of premium sinks originates from the combination of two different marbles, resulting in an elegant and customizable contrast between internal and external surface. The shapes of this collection are geometric, clean and essential. To enrich them is a deep research on the color and polychrome declinations of the bathroom space. The meeting point between the different materials, naturally characterized by different veins and shades, is the upper edge, hand-worked along the entire profile to result in a superlative thickness.

Residential Palace, Qatar <br />Image copyright: @Decormarmi
Residential Palace, Qatar
Image copyright: @Decormarmi
Oasi seatings, designed by Enzo Berti <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Oasi seatings, designed by Enzo Berti
Image copyright: @Kreoo

The design concept behind Alberto Apostoli’s Pearl bathtub is dichotomy. An exterior with an irregular finish, tactile thickness and gray color. A shiny, smooth, clear interior endowed with an almost aerial feel. These are the elements that characterize Pearl. The inspiration, both aesthetically and conceptually, is the oyster. Defined by a rough and asymmetric shell, with a micro opal universe hidden inside, the oyster is the emblem of a dichotomy, but also of a particular elegance. The one designed by Alberto Apostoli is the transposition in design of such elegance and dichotomy, where the water contained in the tub is the connecting element between roughness and flare. Water is, metaphorically, the pearl. In addition, the Airpool system, for the first time integrated into a natural stone bath, determines the movement of the liquid mass with a pleasant massaging sensation. The outer shell in Olive Grey marble, handmade and with a tactile finishing that never repeats itself, welcomes a panel of control for the regulation of water jets. Therefore, design and wellness meet.

Public building, Noble House, St. Petersburg, Russia <br />Image copyright: @Decormarmi
Public building, Noble House, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Tao Freestanding designed by Marco Piva <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Tao Freestanding designed by Marco Piva
Image copyright: @Kreoo

Royal is the first line of marble furnishing accessories designed by Christophe Pillet. The collection includes three vases of different sizes, but of analogous components. The shapes are slender and elegant, with a body of soft silhouette and a border set back on the upper profile to allow the interlocking with the cover, leaving a thin line of vacuum over the entire circumference. The top has a circular hole, on whose perimeter the edges are slightly raised to welcome flowers or to be used as a decorative object. Royal is in fact a precious object, designed to enhance and color the environment, whether it is residential, hospitality or retail. Obtained from a solid block of marble, excavated to make the material lighter, the collection enhances the aesthetics of marble thanks to the rounded volume.

Italian Villa, Rome, Italy, designed by Architect Enrico Gobbi Image <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Italian Villa, Rome, Italy, designed by Architect Enrico Gobbi Image
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Panama marble coverings, designed by Enzo Berti <br />Image copyright: @Kreoo
Panama marble coverings, designed by Enzo Berti
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A cylindrical marble block vertically crossed by a thin golden line, intersected, in turn, by a perpendicular line of the same finish. This is the decorative design that defines the aesthetics of the Tao freestanding washbasin designed by Marco Piva. However, it is not just a matter of aesthetics. The thus designed decorative “mesh” allows to work with marble blocks of different sizes, thus reducing production waste.

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