{"id":229,"date":"2015-10-05T06:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T22:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-09-25T07:05:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T23:05:01","slug":"terrazzo-an-ancient-art-form-improved-and-modernized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terrazzo.net.au\/blog\/terrazzo-an-ancient-art-form-improved-and-modernized\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrazzo \u2013 An Ancient Art Form, Improved and Modernized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Terrazzo \u2013 An Ancient Art Form, Improved and Modernized<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this day and age of gadgets and mobile devices, we sometimes miss out on what\u2019s going on around us.\u00a0 We forget to just stop and look around, to admire, to take in, to revel in the beauty that surrounds us.\u00a0 Walking around inside a mall for instance, have you stopped and just looked at the floor?\u00a0 Milling around inside a museum, did you take a minute to look closely at the floors, the staircases, the benches in front of the art?\u00a0 The next time you go out to the park, take a moment to look at the ground.\u00a0 Did you see it?\u00a0 Did you see the beauty and breathtaking splendour that are terrazzo floors?<\/p>\n<p>Terrazzo floors are an art form started by humble craftsmen out of humble materials thousands of years ago.\u00a0 They took something that was considered rubbish and turned it into wondrous works of art.\u00a0 All around Venice, Italy you can see terrazzo floors painstakingly handcrafted all those years ago, still surviving, still splendid in all its ornate beauty.\u00a0 Up to this day, ancient terrazzo floors are drawing the admiration and praise from everyday people to art connoisseurs.\u00a0 As the years have passed, the art of making terrazzo floors has been improved upon, sometimes by descendants of ancient terrazzo craftsmen.<\/p>\n<p>Terrazzo floors were originally created in situ, meaning poured into place, which could mean that there are areas back then where terrazzo floors could not be installed because of the difficulty to reach.\u00a0 Today, terrazzo the material and terrazzo floors can be pre-cast and expertly installed almost anywhere, on any surface and sometimes even on vertical overlays.<\/p>\n<p>As more technology to improve and modernize the creation of terrazzo floors get discovered, it is a given that the world will have more to enjoy of the beauty and brilliance of terrazzo floors.\u00a0 So take the time to admire these works of art.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just walk on them, let terrazzo floors take your breath away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrazzo \u2013 An Ancient Art Form, Improved and Modernized In this day and age of gadgets and mobile devices, we sometimes miss out on what\u2019s going on around us.\u00a0 We forget to just stop and look around, to admire, to take in, to revel in the beauty that surrounds us.\u00a0 Walking around inside a mall 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