Groningen Museum

When the museum was built in the early 1990s, this pattern was photo-printed onto laminate. The effects of sunlight however caused the print to all but practically fade.

During the course of recent renovations of the museum building, a colourful alternative was chosen comprising ceramic tiles manufactured by AGROB BUCHTAL in collaboration with Koninklijke Tichelaar in Makkum. Tichelaar is a well-known Dutch company which not only manufactures special decorative stoneware, often collaborating with outstanding artists and designers, but is also involved in all kinds of building projects. In this case, the Signac pattern by Alessandro Mendini, the leading architect of the museum building, was realised in a silkscreen glaze on large-format tiles (KerAion system) measuring max.1.28 x 1.28 metres and manufactured by AGROB BUCHTAL. Enabling the Signac pattern to once again undergo a metamorphosis.