Marking a decade of collaboration, the partners bring pop color, distortion, and new surface experimentation to Fuorisalone 2026
Ten years into their partnership, Diesel Living and Iris Ceramica appear uninterested in nostalgia. Instead, the duo arrives at Fuorisalone 2026 with Reloaded, a new chapter that treats ceramic surfaces less as background material and more as expressive medium. Under the creative direction of Glenn Martens in collaboration with Controvento, the collection pushes beyond polite interiors into something bolder, more layered, and distinctly Diesel: where fashion attitude meets architectural utility.
The language of Reloaded is graphic and energetic. Large slabs meet smaller conventional formats in textured color-blocked compositions that feel part mood board, part mural. Pop-inflected hues and tactile finishes inject the category with a sense of irreverence often missing from hard surfaces. Iris Ceramica’s technical precision ensures the experimentation remains refined, while DYS—Design Your Slabs—introduces a customizable dimension that allows each installation to become more personal than prescriptive.
Among the standout designs, Distressed Rug translates the romance of antique carpets into ceramic form, with weathered motifs and softened traces suggesting history worn beautifully thin. Acid Majolica, meanwhile, takes cues from Portuguese tile tradition only to delightfully disrupt it, bending familiar ornament into something warped, vivid, and contemporary. Both surfaces understand an important modern truth: perfection can be forgettable, while character tends to last.
What makes the collection persuasive is its embrace of contradiction. It is industrial yet decorative, technical yet playful, rooted in heritage yet eager to distort it. Diesel Living and Iris Ceramica remind us that walls and floors need not whisper. Sometimes, the room deserves a little attitude.
