Lithos by Casalgrande Padana brings a modern spin to the powerful, expressive beauty of Portland stone. Conserved amid the forbidding, jagged cliffs of Portland, on the coast of the English Channel, in the county of Dorset, are the enduring traces of a past able to capture the beauty of Portland Stone, the inspiration for this collection. A recurring feature of a number of iconic institutional buildings, such as the Palace of Westminster, the British Museum and the UN headquarters in New York, Portland Stone has travelled slowly through the centuries to bring us its impressive beauty, preserved by time. This collection is a modern tribute to the timeless allure of a charismatic, powerfully expressive stone.
Delicate shades of color, soft cloudy effects and subtle touches of light envelop the tiles in the new Lithos collection, embellishing it with distinctive graphic details to create simple yet sophisticated surfaces able to adapt to all kinds of applications and living spaces.
The six collection colours — Lithos beige, bianco, grigio, Nero, taupe and Tortora — come with a thickness of 9 mm in the sizes 30-by-60 cm and 60-by-60 cm, with an anti-slip surface, and in the new R10 natural finish, which combines a pleasant appearance and a delicate tactile sensation with the technical characteristics required for increasingly international design projects. The 60-by-120 cm size is available in R10 natural, satin and grip finishes, and the 120-by-120 cm size is available in R10 natural and satin surfaces, while in the 120-by-278 cm size, the new Lithos collection comes in a 6 mm thickness and with an R10 natural finish, as well as an extraordinarily soft satin finish, for a natural, matte look.
In the colours beige, grigio, taupe and Tortora and the sizes 60-by-60 cm and 60-by-120 cm, Lithos is also available with a thickness of 20 mm, with an anti-slip surface, ideal for dry laying on turf, sand or gravel, or for raised laying. The range is completed with 30-by-30 cm mesh-backed mosaic tiles with 5-by-5 cm and 5-by-15 cm tesserae, a canneté decoration in the 60-by-120 cm size, and a 29.5-by-29.5 cm curved mosaic tile, available in all the colors in the collection and with a natural surface.
Lithos offers a modern, versatile finish for design projects that require top technical performance, as well as guaranteeing maximum creative freedom to compose indoor and outdoor floors and walls. This adaptable, sophisticated design tool is perfect for creating both total looks and attractive colour contrast effects, also in combination with other Casalgrande Padana collections.
Like all the Casalgrande Padana stoneware collections, Lithos is composed of natural raw materials. Eco-compatible and fire-resistant, it does not give off harmful substances in the event of fire. It is non-absorbent and resistant to wear and tear, abrasion and thermal shock. Durable and easy both to lay and clean, its beauty remains unaltered over time. In addition, thanks to the Bios Ceramics technology (available on request), this new collection combines excellent technical performance with antibacterial, self-cleaning properties able to reduce polluting agents.
