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New Elementa collection.

The eclectic creativity of Marco Piva meets
the expertise of Foglie d’Oro

Foglie d’Oro meets internationally renowned architect and designer Marco Piva at a natural crossroads between two paths – indeed two journeys – that have set out from Italy and made their way over the years through the world’s major capitals and cities, tuning into and helping to shape a distinctly characteristic yet impressively versatile idea of contemporary luxury.

The name that embodies this meeting of minds is Elementa: a collection of premium-quality wood floors that form the elements of a creative syntax able to build unique, distinctive creations.

Elementa Floors
The Elementa concept

A journey is an experience, experience is a luxury.

The architect and designer Marco Piva likes to define himself first and foremost as a traveller, and the essential inspiration for the Elementa collection comes from his anthropological approach, his penchant for travel and his desire to explore the cultures his projects resonate with.

Expressed in the design of each wooden floor in the collection is a fragment of memory – an image, a scent or a sound seeking a place in the spotlight and crafted by Marco Piva’s creative spirit into a new form, in which the origin is evident and the unique, custom form is hinted at. Because today’s definition of luxury is the opportunity to enjoy an experience as authentic as the beauty of wood interpreted by a designer of uncommon talent.

Expressed in the design of each wooden floor in the collection is a fragment of memory – an image, a scent or a sound seeking a place in the spotlight and crafted by Marco Piva’s creative spirit into a new form, in which the origin is evident and the unique, custom form is hinted at. Because today’s definition of luxury is the opportunity to enjoy an experience as authentic as the beauty of wood interpreted by a designer of uncommon talent.

The origin of Elementa. Creative intuition that evolves into design.

Creativity – the spontaneous expression of an inspiration that gradually acquires shape and proportion – is by nature imprecise: this is the essence of its distinctive quality. A quality it shares with wood, a living material that as such is unique and inimitable every time, just like the tree it comes from. So the challenge faced by both the designer and the company tasked with turning their intuition into flawless floors is to respect this apparent imprecision that is a part of nature, revealing its beauty and perfection. Observing the process that shapes Elementa floors offers the privilege of a unique perspective on this miracle of creativity and engineering.

«Thrilling, flowing and functional. That’s how I like to describe my approach to design, which has always been at home in major urban master plans, spanning architecture and interior and product design. In other words, I like to express the typically humanist ability to move through different contexts and disciplines, prompting them to engage with one another. In Foglie d’Oro, I have found the ideal partner to breathe life into a literally iconic and inevitably eclectic collection: iconic in that each pattern is unique and clearly recognisable; eclectic in that it cannot be reduced to any concept other than exploration, in which interior design is an open door into uncharted, uniquely personal territory.»
The six different types of flooring are able to bring on board a variety of influences, while remaining distinctly recognisable and maintaining their identity. The grain and the distinctive features of the Walnut and Oak wood provide the inspiration for patterns with a subtle yet clearly recognisable decorative impact. Each module offers a variety of layout options, each of which can be enhanced with material or colour contrasts to create surfaces that take on a sophisticated allure thanks to the inserts available, which can be chosen both with different wood finishes and with metal or marble features, creating original combinations suitable for a range of diverse living styles.