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Two new stone-look tile ranges at Italtile

Stone has added its muscular profile to the built environment for millennia. With a natural tactile warmth and versatile aesthetic, along with an abundance of choices in terms of tonality and texture, stone has always offered a sense of democracy, elevating both grandiose structures and humble dwellings. High-end stone-look porcelain tiles deliver all the power and majesty of natural quarried stone, along with its durability, but in a far more sustainable and low-maintenance form.

Thanks to the ubiquity and versatility of stone effects – whether imitative of mighty alpine rock or Venetian Terrazzo with its dynamic stone-cement aggregate – stone-look porcelain tiles enhance just about every interior design mood board, whether classic, rustic, urban, or modernist.

Italtile’s two exciting new stone-look EcoTec porcelain tile ranges – Boulevard and Matrix – developed by local sustainability pioneers Gryphon, offer eco-chic customers the choice of a more traditional soft grey stone look (Boulevard) or vibrant flecks (Matrix) with an adventurous Terrazzo-style cement-stone aggregate effect.

Matrix EcoTec

The making

EcoTec: Italtile’s local tile partners Gryphon have pioneered a world-leading sustainable tile manufacturing process called EcoTec. An EcoTec tile is thinner, lighter, yet stronger (up to 55% stronger than SABS standard requirements), using less water, clay, and fuel during the manufacturing process. Every high-end porcelain tile in Italtile’s EcoTec collections carries Italtile’s LiveGreen logo.

Rectified: Both the Matrix and Boulevard ranges have rectified edges, meaning the tiles have been mechanically cut and precisely machined to achieve uniformly straight edges. The result is a near-seamless installation with only 1.5mm joints, facilitating a pleasingly continuous flow, whether on floors or walls.

Digital printing: Extraordinary advances in digital printing enable manufacturers to produce unbelievably realistic surface finishes. Both Boulevard and Matrix have been designed and engineered to offer eight individual graphic designs, or unique faces, ensuring little or no replication of pattern when installed.

The ranges

Boulevard 590 x 590 x 8mm Rectified Matt Glazed Porcelain EcoTec Tile: A subtly variegated stone-look tile offered in Stone, Bone, and Grey (with a slip-resistant option in Grey). It enhances both classic and contemporary interiors and exteriors, is durable, low-maintenance, and features eight unique faces.

Matrix 590 x 590 x 8mm Rectified Matt Glazed Porcelain EcoTec Tile: A vibrant ‘star-studded’ tile with pale, mid-tone, and grey contrasts on a screed-look canvas, emulating a lively Terrazzo-style design. It adds movement and texture to contemporary spaces, is durable, low-maintenance, and features eight unique faces.

Both Boulevard EcoTec and Matrix EcoTec are Italtile exclusives and carry Italtile’s LiveGreen label.

Featured image: Boulevard EcoTec

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