A commercial floor is measured in years
A domestic floor is replaced when somebody redecorates. A hotel lobby or a restaurant floor is replaced when it can no longer be kept looking acceptable, and the difference between those two is measured in traffic.
That is why this range runs to stone and large format porcelain rather than to glazed ceramic. A glaze is a layer; a stone or a vitrified body is the same material all the way through, and what wears is the surface rather than a coating over something else.
Polished leads, which is a commercial decision
Polished is the largest finish here, ahead of honed, with matte and natural groups behind them.
In a domestic floor page matte usually leads. A commercial interior goes the other way because a polished floor returns light through a space that is often deep, artificially lit and meant to feel generous. It is also the finish a large lobby can maintain a routine around in a way a household cannot.
12x24 and the larger formats
12x24 leads the sizes, then 12x12, 18x18, 24x24, an 8x48 plank group and a 24x48.
Large formats do more work commercially than domestically. A lobby or a dining room is a wide open span seen from one end, and every joint is a line across it; halving the joint count changes how the room reads far more than it would in a domestic hall.
White carries the colors
White dominates, then gray, beige and black, with the series names running to Calacatta, Carrara, Bianco, Alpina, Bardiglio, Royal and Premium.
Those are marble names, and a white marble floor in a commercial interior is doing what it has done for a century: signalling that the space was built rather than fitted out. It is also the palest possible surface in a room whose lighting is entirely artificial.
The two thicknesses
3/8 of an inch and 1/2 inch carry this range between them, with a 25/64 group behind.
The half inch pieces are the stone; the thinner ones are the porcelain. On a commercial job that difference is worth settling early, because a floor running through several areas at two thicknesses needs the transitions planned rather than discovered.
The wood look plank group
There is also a plank group at 8x48, alongside the marble and stone looks.
In a hospitality interior a plank floor is doing something the stone cannot: it gives a large room a direction and a warmth without carpet, which matters in a dining room or a lobby seating area where a polished stone floor would be too hard a surface both acoustically and visually. Wood look tile covers the effect.
What this page does not settle
Commercial projects carry requirements for wear, cleanability and slip that a domestic one does not.
None of those figures is published in this catalog. They come from the manufacturer's technical data for the specific product, and on a commercial job they are worth collecting before a tile is chosen rather than after. Marble tile and porcelain tile are the materials behind this range.
