Stone Effect Tiles: Porcelain Stoneware for Walls & Floors

Stone-effect porcelain stoneware preserves the charm of the natural stone that inspires it and offers the practicality of stoneware tiles. The Marazzi stoneware tiles collections take inspiration from various kinds of stone traditionally used for architecture – slate, quartzite, basalt and different types of sedimentary rock – imitating their textures and expanding their range of colours. Indeed, the colour palette, which varies from collection to collection, includes many shades of grey – from light to dark to black –, browns, reds/pinks, beiges and whites.

In the Marazzi catalogue, the colours of the stone-effect stoneware are enhanced by movement and light effects created by the stone-surface finish: natural, split-face, polished, bush-hammered or decorated with skilfully created three-dimensional textures. Depending on the specific case, the result may work best with a traditional, classic or rustic style, or with the essential designs of contemporary taste, or it may even adapt well to both.

Stone-effect stoneware is available in various formats, from small to medium, mosaic, large and extra-large, and it can be used for wall and floor coverings, both at home and in shops and offices. Stoneware can be used to create a stone-effect total look in all the rooms: the kitchen and lounge,, bedroom and bathroom. Stone-effect stoneware is perfect for indoors and, thanks to its structured, extra-thick tiles, also for outdoors. Additionally, large stoneware slabs can be cut to size to create tops for bathroom furniture and the kitchen, shelves, table tops, etc.

The beauty of stone that stoneware perfectly imitates is a synthesis of the work of nature, the effects of time and chance, combined with the skill of the craftsman who work it. Its beauty, which is treasured by people, who have always used stone to build, is combined with the practicality of stoneware. Its practicality is due to its compact, vitrified structure, which makes it resistant to shocks and abrasions, insensitive to temperature changes, waterproof, stain-resistant, durable, anti-slip, resistant to chemicals and easy to wash.