ATELIER is Ceramica Bardelli’s project that brings the language of wallpaper into ceramic materiality: designer surfaces created to transform the wall into narrative, rhythm and architecture.
Presented at Cersaie 2026, Atelier defines a new way of thinking about decoration: Ceramic Wallpaper. Not a simple motif applied to the surface, but a system in which drawing, colour, relief and engraving become a permanent part of the material.
The project brings together different languages — botany, illustration, geometry, painting and storytelling — through collaborations with Ronald van der Hilst, Riccardo Capuzzo, Robert Dawson and Gianmaria Bardelli.
Atelier collections are also designed to work alongside Colorama solid-colour bases, creating a coordinated vocabulary for residential and contract interior design.
The wall is no longer just a surface.
Atelier begins with a precise idea: to consider wall covering as a true narrative space. The wall can become canvas, skin, sequence and landscape. Each collection is conceived as an authored work capable of inhabiting architecture, rather than as an isolated pattern.
The 60 × 120 cm format is treated like a vertical page. Graphics can repeat, alternate and create extended fields, allowing the project to work both on detail and on the overall perception of a space.
It is an open, evolving system: different authors, one idea of surface.
The wall becomes a place of expression, where art and design become inseparable.
Ceramic Wallpaper: when decoration gains depth.
Atelier’s decorative research meets cold digital printing with material deposition. The design does not remain only on the surface: it gains depth, tactile relief and variations that respond to light.
The visual richness of wallpaper is transferred onto a ceramic support, creating wall coverings in which graphics and material work together. For architects and interior designers, this means designing the wall as an identity-defining element of the space, with a strong decorative character and a physical presence that can be perceived up close.
Four authors. Four ways of inhabiting the surface.
Atelier places collaboration with designers at the heart of the project. Each author brings a recognisable visual world and translates it into a specific ceramic language.
Botany, movement, engraving.
The Dutch artist and landscape designer transforms the tulip — a recurring presence in his research — into a language of surfaces. Tuli-Charme, Tuli-Pique and Tuli-Poni explore graphics, relief and engraving: from the vertical garden to the botanical mirage, through to the deconstruction of the flower into line and colour.
The sea as a narrative universe.
Riccardo Capuzzo’s illustrative language brings together image, storytelling and imagination. Searcus connects sea and circus; Aquatic Creatures develops four scenarios — Mongolfiere, Atlantis City, Seaweed and Sea Maioliche — between poetry, memory and submerged worlds.
Aesthetic Sabotage.
Robert Dawson works on decoration, texture and perception through fragmentation, distortion and reconstruction. In Circles he disrupts the predictability of geometry; in Flowers he reinterprets the botanical motif, preserving its memory while elegantly subverting its order.
Gesture, material, architecture.
Gianmaria Bardelli’s research connects heritage, technology and design culture. Brush preserves the energy of the painterly gesture on ceramic; Precious constructs an imaginary geology of fragments, veins and glimmers.
ATELIER alongside Colorama.
The project does not exist as an isolated decorative collection. Atelier décors are designed to dialogue with Colorama solid-colour bases, expanding compositional possibilities between statement walls, neutral fields and colour accents.
In the Atelier catalogue, the suggested combinations use six Colorama bases: Bianco, Perla, Grigio, Cotto, Verde and Blu. The result is a coordinated system in which decoration and colour can coexist within the same project.
From continuous colour to the authored wall: one ceramic vocabulary.
An atlas of designer surfaces.
The new Atelier catalogue brings together the complete project: the Ceramic Wallpaper concept, designer profiles, settings, variants, laying schemes, Colorama combinations and technical information.
The pages create a journey connecting Tulipani, Searcus, Aquatic Creatures, Circles, Flowers, Brush and Precious, presenting the system not simply as a collection of products, but as a design platform for interior architecture.
A vertical page that becomes architecture.
The 60 × 120 cm format allows each slab to be conceived as a narrative module. Depending on the collection, the elements can create sequences, alternations, repetitions or freer compositions. The scale of the design allows the surface to be read from a distance as a whole and up close as material detail.
Atelier is conceived for residential and contract interior design: hospitality, retail, living spaces, bathrooms, reception areas and environments where the wall covering contributes to the identity of the project.
For specific information on intended use, installation, cutting, grouting and cleaning, always refer to the technical data sheets and the instructions dedicated to cold-decorated slabs.
ATELIER at a glance.
What is ATELIER by Ceramica Bardelli?
ATELIER is Ceramica Bardelli’s Ceramic Wallpaper project: designer decorative ceramic surfaces in which graphics, colour, relief and material become part of the wall design.
When was ATELIER presented?
The Atelier project was presented at Cersaie 2026 as a new expression of Ceramica Bardelli’s research into ceramic decoration and collaborations with designers.
Which designers created the ATELIER surfaces?
Ronald van der Hilst, Riccardo Capuzzo, Robert Dawson and Gianmaria Bardelli.
Which collections are part of the project?
Tulipani by Ronald van der Hilst; Searcus and Aquatic Creatures by Riccardo Capuzzo; Circles and Flowers by Robert Dawson; Brush and Precious by Gianmaria Bardelli.
What format are the surfaces made in?
The Atelier collections use the 60 × 120 cm format, treated as a vertical page for composing large wall surfaces.
How does ATELIER work with Colorama?
Atelier décors are designed to work alongside Colorama solid-colour bases. The catalogue suggests combinations with Bianco, Perla, Grigio, Cotto, Verde and Blu.
What technology is used for Ceramic Wallpaper?
The decoration uses cold digital printing with material deposition, a technology that gives the design depth and tactile relief on the ceramic surface.
The wall as a designer surface.
Discover Ceramica Bardelli collections, explore the project presented at Cersaie 2026 or contact the team for materials, samples and project support.
