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Refin Sublime Home 48-inch by 48-inch large-format porcelain tile in a warm-grey concrete-look finish, installed across an open contemporary living space at Royal Stone

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 slab arrival, 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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