COTTO ZERO COTTO STORICO PIEMONTESE By Danilo Ramazzotti
Handmade terracotta floor/wall tiles
Upon entering churches and ancient palaces in our area, it often happens that one encounters wonderful terracotta floors.
They are very special terracottas, a deep pinkish color and interwoven with small fragments ranging from ivory to terracotta in color.
These cottos tell the story of everyday craftsmanship carried out by mixing the main local clays, which presented within them everything that nature offered: impurities, fragments of different clays, small pebbles... thus, what was once simply the fruit of what the soil offered, over the centuries has been transformed into a very precise material, as part of a code, able to provide us with the historical perid of reference of the construction itself.
After centuries, we decided to give our historic terracotta a voice again.
This terracotta was born to be aesthetically akin to the cotto of our ancestors, but loaded with all the pluses of CottoZero.
A cotto so precious and with such a special color could only be inspired by a woman and a love story; thus, in our kilns "reborn" historical Piedmontese cotto dedicated to "Bella Rusin."
The CottoZero Italia Antica version is dressed with a special irregular finish softened by time.
CottoZero: handmade terracotta like never before
CottoZero is a project born from the Ramazzotti family's desire to transform handmade terracotta into a high-performance material suited to the rhythms and needs of contemporary life.
The raw materials were the first object of study.
The precious clays with which CottoZero is made come from the Piedmontese deposits at the foot of Monte Rosa, quarried within the UNESCO Sesia Val Grande Geopark, a unique place precisely because of its geological formation, rich in many deposits of pure clays with great differences.
This careful research, starting with the quality and characteristics of the raw materials, continues with the analysis and optimisation of all the production phases. For this reason, CottoZero is today a high-performance handmade terracotta that is unique on the market; compact, resistant, breathable, highly resistant to m
CottoZero combines the beauty and naturalness of a handcrafted material with the practicality and taste of a contemporary material.
Features:
- Handmade artisanal terracotta
- Extremely compact.
- High mechanical resistance.
- Very low absorbency.
- High resistance to stains.
- Extremely easy to clean and maintain.
- Completely natural and breathable.
- Suitable for laying with underfloor heating.
SQUARE:
10x10x2 cm - 3” 15⁄16 x 3” 15⁄16 x 25⁄32”
20x20x2 cm - 7” 7⁄8 x 7” 7⁄8 x 25⁄32”
25x25x2 cm - 9” 27⁄32 x 9” 27⁄32 x 25⁄32”
30x30x2 cm - 11” 13⁄16 x 11” 13⁄16 x 25⁄32”
40x40x2,5 cm - 15” 3⁄4 x 15” 3⁄4 x 63⁄64”
RECTANGLE:
8x33x2 cm - 3” 5⁄32 x 12” 63⁄64 x 25⁄32”
10x20x2 cm - 3” 15⁄16 x 7” 7⁄8 x 25⁄32”
10x40x2 cm - 3” 15⁄16 x 15” 3⁄4 x 25⁄32”
12x48x2 cm - 4” 23⁄32 x 18” 57⁄64 x 25⁄32”
14x60x2.5 cm - 5” 33⁄64 x 23” 5⁄8 x 63⁄64”
15x30x2 cm - 5” 29⁄32 x 11” 13⁄16 x 25⁄32”
20x40x2 cm - 7” 7⁄8 x 15” 3⁄4 x 25⁄32”
20x60x3 cm - 7” 7⁄8 x 23” 5⁄8 x 1” 3⁄16
20x80x3 cm - 7” 7⁄8 x 31” 1⁄2x 1” 3⁄16
30x60x2 cm - 11” 13⁄16 x 23” 5⁄8 x 25⁄32”
RHOUMBUS:
16,5x29x2 cm - 6” 1⁄2 x 11” 27⁄64 x 25⁄32”
HEXAGON:
side 11 cm thickness 2 cm - side 4” 21⁄64 thickness 25⁄32” cm
side 16 cm thickness 2 cm - side 6” 19⁄64 thickness 25⁄32” cm
BASEBOARD:
bevel 8x33x2 cm - 3” 5⁄32 x12” 63⁄64 x 25⁄32”
becco civetta 8x34x2 cm - 3” 5⁄32 x 12” 63⁄64 x 25⁄32”
STEP:
1 side bevel/bullnose 20x35x3 cm - 7” 7⁄8 x 13” 25⁄32 x 1” 3⁄16
2 sides "L" bevel/bullnose 22,5x35x3 cm - 8” 55⁄64 x 13” 25⁄32 x 1” 3⁄16
BIG STEP:
1 side bevel/bullnose 100x35x3 cm - 39” 3⁄8 x 13” 25⁄32 x 1” 3⁄16
2 sides "L" bevel/bullnose 100x35x3 cm - 39” 3⁄8 x 13” 25⁄32 x 1” 3⁄16
3 sides bevel/bullnose 100x35x3 cm - 39” 3⁄8 x 13” 25⁄32 x 1” 3⁄16
CUSTOM MADE: different sizes on request / Rectification sides on request
FINISHING: hand smoothed
