Contemporary Modern Floor Tiles Carpets made of PVC

Hidraulik: Contemporary Modern Floor Tiles Carpets made of PVC

Hidraulik is a Barcelona-based company producing carpets, table mats and runners for contemporary spaces.

Hydraulic panels originated in the 1850’s and represented good taste, personalization, aesthetic sensibility. Today this company brings that spirit with a contemporary version of the unforgettable tiles of Art Nouveau. Applying a similar aesthetic quality to a thin, flexible and moveable PVC surface.

They have two versions available. Classic and Modern. Classic series models are duplicates of original floors. Modern series models are new creations inspired by modernist models. Art Nouveau-inspired prints first designed in house, and was followed up by modernist-inspired prints created by inspiring graphic design studios Huaman and Hey.

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The Origin of Hydraulic Tiles

The history of hydraulic floor tile dates back in 1857 where we find the first references, but it was not until 1867 that in the Universal Exhibition in Paris was consolidated; the Company Garret, Rivet & Co. presented the new floor as an innovation in as much as the hydraulic kind did not require baking because its system was based on the press. To make floor tiles the procedure was carried out consisted in pouring the color pasta in the shape of the special mold. This was a kind of iron that formed the outline of the drawing that would have the mosaic. It was filled up to the thickness of twenty or twenty-five millimeters and then the mold was placed in a hydraulic press for being compacted. Then it was extracted, dried and then immersed for a day in water. Then, the following process is what gives the name of “hydraulic” to the type of floor tile: these are moistened with water and put in a chamber with high humidity for twenty-eight days, which is the time required for pasta It is hardened with a chemical process that makes the water.