Terrain Mosaics at the NW Design Centre

Surface Inc is delighted to announce that the beautiful, bespoke designs from Terrain Mosaics now have a home at the NW Design Centre in Hollinwood, Manchester.

The NW Design Centre

Thanks to the lovely Denise and Neil at NWDC, Terrain are working on a fantastic 7sqm installation for one of their highest profile sites at the centre. Kevin at Terrain is in the consulting process with the NWDC team in order to finalise a design which will be contemporary, unique and transform the current cluttered tiling sample area into a canopied pod of light and drama.

Tara Damask by Terrain Mosaics

Tara Damask

David Hicks inspired design by Terrain

Hicks by Terrain

Of course we’ll publish the finished piece after installation. Some of the other designs that the NWDC currently hold as samples are Terrain’s classic ‘Hicks’ inspired pattern and a new design called ‘Tara Damask’, a damask pattern on a blended randomised gradient of vitreous and goldlink tiles.

The NWDC also holds samples of Luminoso translucent wood, Litracon light transmitting concrete, Individual Creation glass and marble bead aggregate, Atelier Alain Ellouz translucent alabaster and our brand new addition, Cocomosaic! What a great place to go browsing for inspiration!

Luminoso Translucent Wood at the Guggenheim

Here at Surface Inc we were really excited to hear about the use of translucent wood in the Wright Restaurant at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Designed by Andre Kikoski Architects in collaboration with artist Liam Gillick, the 1,600 square foot space features a metalwork and Corian bar, illuminated planes of woven texture and a magnificent, curvilinear bar of walnut Luminoso.

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Kikoski architects design with Luminoso

Surface Inc introduces Ombrae in Cor-Ten Steel

Ombrae system creator, Roderick Quin has expanded the already astounding versatility of this revolutionary surface design material by introducing Cor-Ten steel to the portfolio of substrates.

Standard Ombrae panels have been available for some time in aluminium, the first commercially available material for the Ombrae optical tiling system. The development of Cor-Ten steel panels expands the potential applications to very large scale buildings or projects where the specific qualities of Cor-Ten are preferable to aluminium.

Available in pixel sizes of 35mm, 50mm and 100mm, the Cor-Ten version also allows architects and designers to work on larger scale images or to mix and match the pixel sizes to add extra complexity to their designs.

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Cor-Ten Steel

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We keep things fresh by keeping things moving. Our core brand value is to constantly search out the next big things and add them to the portfolio of brands we represent.

If something’s new we’ll have heard of it, so why not give us a call first to get an update and find out if it’s something that’s going to be appearing as one of our featured brands.

Instead of seeing one representative per material, Surface Inc provides you with one contact point for a whole raft of different materials to inspire and energise your architectural or interior design projects.

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