Materials → Metal
Metal glazes and structural supports for artistic installations
Where art and engineering meet: the two souls of metal
Metal is a material of fascinating contrasts. Solid and durable, yet capable of reflecting light with remarkable elegance. It remains invisible when supporting a structure, yet becomes the focal point when transformed into a decorative surface through metal glazes.
On one side, it represents strength: supporting large slabs, enhancing complex architectural projects, and making artistic installations possible. On the other, it becomes a source of visual wonder, through shimmering reflections, subtle tonal variations, and textures that transform matter into a visual experience.
On one side, it represents strength: supporting large slabs, enhancing complex architectural projects, and making artistic installations possible. On the other, it becomes a source of visual wonder, through shimmering reflections, subtle tonal variations, and textures that transform matter into a visual experience.
Features
What we do with Metal
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Metal glazes
Gold, platinum, silver, copper.
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Glass & metal art
Light, reflection, structure.
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Structural frames
Supports for backlit marble.
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Honeycomb panels
Lightweight large-format mosaics.
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Marine expertise
Structural glass on board ships.
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Art meets engineering
Design and structural engineering together.
Techniques & Gallery
The balance between lightness, brightness and strength
In context
Metal in context
Case studies
Metal in works
Precious metal glazes: depth, reflections and materiality
Metal glazes represent one of the most refined expressions of contemporary decoration. We work with precious metals such as gold, platinum, silver, and copper in different formulations and applications, creating surfaces distinguished by unique reflections, depth, and chromatic variations.
These effects can be applied to both glass and ceramics, creating surfaces that interact with light in constantly changing ways. Through metal glazes, we develop exclusive finishes for architecture, interior design, hospitality, and marine environments.
Every project can be fully customized, including the way it refracts light and responds to touch. The range of possibilities extends from ultra-glossy finishes that enhance the precious character of metals to brushed treatments that create a more technical, satin, and tactile metallic effect.
These effects can be applied to both glass and ceramics, creating surfaces that interact with light in constantly changing ways. Through metal glazes, we develop exclusive finishes for architecture, interior design, hospitality, and marine environments.
Every project can be fully customized, including the way it refracts light and responds to touch. The range of possibilities extends from ultra-glossy finishes that enhance the precious character of metals to brushed treatments that create a more technical, satin, and tactile metallic effect.
Glass and metal artistic installations
Glass and metal installations have the power to capture attention and define the identity of a space. Transparencies, reflections, metallic surfaces, and supporting structures merge into compositions that engage with both light and their surroundings.
Each installation is developed as a unique piece, with careful attention paid to proportions, materials, and construction details. Behind the apparent lightness lies a sophisticated process of design and engineering.
A significant example of this expertise can be seen in the structural glass art installations created aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ships, where aesthetics, safety, and technical performance coexist in perfect balance.
Each installation is developed as a unique piece, with careful attention paid to proportions, materials, and construction details. Behind the apparent lightness lies a sophisticated process of design and engineering.
A significant example of this expertise can be seen in the structural glass art installations created aboard Royal Caribbean cruise ships, where aesthetics, safety, and technical performance coexist in perfect balance.
Metal structures for marble and special surfaces
Behind every complex surface lies a structure designed to support it over time. We create custom metal frames and support systems for backlit marble, large decorative surfaces, ceramic artworks, and artistic installations.
Each structure is engineered according to the material, weight, environmental conditions, and specific characteristics of the project, ensuring stability, durability, and precision.
Each structure is engineered according to the material, weight, environmental conditions, and specific characteristics of the project, ensuring stability, durability, and precision.
Honeycomb panels for mosaics with metal glazes
Behind some of the most spectacular decorative surfaces lies an almost invisible technology. Honeycomb panels make it possible to isolate mosaics with metallic enamels, metal sheets, and ceramic surfaces from the substrate, protecting them from moisture, rust, and colour deterioration.
Thanks to their cellular core structure, large decorative wall panels can be created while maintaining stability and ease of installation.
Honeycomb panels are particularly suited to the marine sector, where reducing the weight of the support structure and the ability to absorb stresses are essential to accommodate structural tensions and torsions during navigation.
Thanks to their cellular core structure, large decorative wall panels can be created while maintaining stability and ease of installation.
Honeycomb panels are particularly suited to the marine sector, where reducing the weight of the support structure and the ability to absorb stresses are essential to accommodate structural tensions and torsions during navigation.
Tailor-made solutions for complex projects
Every project is the result of a unique combination of materials, technologies, and expertise. Metallic glazes, structural glass, backlit marble, lightweight mosaics, and engineered metal structures are integrated into a single design system to create works that unite innovation, design, and engineering.
It is this ability to bring different disciplines together that allows Morandistudio to develop unique solutions for yachts, hotels, boutiques, private residences, and prestigious commercial spaces.
It is this ability to bring different disciplines together that allows Morandistudio to develop unique solutions for yachts, hotels, boutiques, private residences, and prestigious commercial spaces.
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Create your project with metal
Discover how we work with metal to create extraordinary metal glazes for glass and ceramics, artistic installations and support structures for design surfaces.