11.04.23

Are flat walls too plain for your liking? If wallcoverings are a pain to maintain in our hot and humid weather, and other vertical claddings too thick and cumbersome to install, look to textured tiles to bring life to your surfaces! The sophisticated embossed patterns of these new tiles are refined and modern, and make versatile canvases for contemporary design and furnishings. Tiles also have the advantage of being water- and scratch-resistant, durable and easy to clean. Their slim profiles also mean you can add dimension to your walls without making the space feel smaller. Explore the latest looks for textured tiles below!

Loom

A heart-warming story about family ties and traditions lies behind the Loom tile collection. Architect Marialaura Rossiello Irvine of Studio Irvine drew on the embroidery expertise of the womenfolk in her family to design a rich fabric of various embroidered textures on the Loom tiles. The full body porcelain tiles of 70cm by 12cm are herringbone cut and feature two right patterns and two left patterns. When placed end to end and side by side, the individual tiles are no longer visible, leaving a dynamic pattern that creates movement with the staggered widths of its strips. The Loom tiles are 8.5mm thick and comes in five colours.

Mutina Folded

Anyone who has done origami knows that when you undo your creation, the geometry of lines left by the folds of the paper are indelible. These crisp marks are translated onto ceramic tiles by Raw Edges in their Folded collection for Mutina. The 60cm by 60cm tiles come in three designs, each of which feature marks left on ‘paper’ folded in different ways but all with a four by four grid as a common motif. The grid also recalls the repetition of square tiles common in apartments of the 1950s and 60s in Tel Aviv, where the two designers of Raw Edges are from.

Mapierre

The fine Pierre de Bourgogne limestone of Burgundy, France is the inspiration behind the Mapierre collection of stone-inspired porcelain stoneware tiles. The collection references the limestone that is rich in details and shade variation, and presents it in three formats of Ancienne, Ligne and Noble for modern interior use. Ancienne captures the timeworn spirit of the collection, Ligne is finished with three-dimensional lines, and Nobel sports a discreet measured elegance. All three are available in five natural hues and in a variety of sizes.

Mutina Phenomenon 

The Mutina Phenomenon collection is not new, but the introduction of new colours of Blu, Verde and Rosa in addition to the existing four natural hues poses exciting new applications for the poetic textures of the collection designed by Tokujin Yoshioka. The designs of Honeycomb, Rock, Air, and Rain evoke the natural phenomena they were named after and present highly tactile surfaces that are almost craft-like and artisanal in their appearance. Thanks to their three-dimensionality, the unglazed porcelain stoneware tiles also show off their unique character thanks to the play of light and shadow on their surfaces.

Visits to riceLAB are strictly by appointment only. To minimise your time spent at riceLAB, we encourage you to make your tile selections online at www.rice-fields.com before coming down. Make an appointment by emailing us here or by calling 66921199. riceLAB is at 213 Henderson Road 01.03 Singapore 159553. RICE is open from Mondays to Saturdays from 9am to 6pm.

Make your tile choices even more sustainable! Look for tiles certified by the Singapore Green Building Council and Singapore Green Labelling Scheme on our website, using the filter Singapore Green Labels on the Materials tab.

Keywords
Loom, Mapierre, Mutina Folded, Mutina Phenomenon, textured tiles