← The JournalPorcelain Architectural Tile · 2025

Refin Ceramiche has run its kilns outside Modena since 1962, and Sublime Home is the collection where the mill puts its refined surface work into a residential vocabulary — quiet stone and concrete visuals with the kind of warmth that holds up against natural light. The 48″ × 48″ format (roughly 120 × 120 cm) is the one that does the most work in a real interior: large enough to read as a continuous floor, square enough to lay without a directional pattern.

Why this format, in this material. A 48″ square in porcelain replaces three 24″ × 24″ tiles and most of the grout that came with them. The seams almost disappear in a rectified install, which lets the surface read closer to a slab floor than a tile floor. Through-body construction means edges can be mitered for stair treads, hearths, and integrated thresholds without showing a different color at the cut.

A 48″ square in porcelain replaces three 24″ × 24″ tiles and most of the grout that came with them.
From the porcelain architectural tile, 2025

Where it belongs. Open-plan living and kitchen floors where a slab would be impractical at scale. Primary baths and showers where the same surface needs to run from the floor up the walls. Outdoor terraces and pool surrounds — Sublime Home's porcelain body is freeze-thaw stable and dimensionally consistent panel to panel, which matters when one floor steps from inside to out.

On the floor at Royal Stone. The 48″ × 48″ panels are stocked now in the showroom alongside the matching slab formats where available. Walk the material in daylight, take a sample home, and let us pull from current inventory for your project.

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