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Britain has worn this diamond for a century - on golf courses, in club rooms, across generations of knitwear. Tex lets it leave the sweater. The London studio Raw Edges designed the collection for Mutina in 2012 around a declared idea: the rhombus tile is «a simplified enlargement of the basic knitted stitch», the symmetric rows of stitches you see when you look closely at a knit.
The textile logic runs deeper than the shape. Each of the eight matt colours comes in three shades and five relief textures, «re-creating the feel of the different tones of the yarn», packed randomly so the wall or floor composes itself with a knitter's irregularity. For deliberate pattern-making there are the Runners: twelve rhombi pre-set on mesh in ten designed combinations, used as a frame, a centrepiece or a linear band.
The performance is anything but woolly: 10 mm thick porcelain, 0.04% water absorption, stain class 5, frost-proof for courtyards, R10 with barefoot class C and a Robinson rating for extra-heavy, high-impact use. The Interior Innovation Award followed in 2014. For offices, member clubs and hotel washrooms, it is the rare pattern that feels inherited rather than installed.
Collection: Tex
Manufacturer: Mutina
Design: Raw Edges (Yael Mer, Shay Alkalay), 2012 — registered design no. 002193797-0001/0014 (28/02/2013)
Awards: Interior Innovation Award 2014
Material: glazed porcelain stoneware (UNI EN 14411 App. G, group BIa GL), matt surface, 10 mm (0.39 in) thick
Format: rhombus 11.5x20 cm (4.5x7.9 in) (4"x8") — mesh-mounted Runner 35x40.4 cm (13.8x15.9 in) (8 modules = 1.12 sqm, 10 versions) — skirting 10.5x20 cm (4.1x7.9 in)
Colours: 8 (Cream, Brown, White, Grey, Black, Blue, Olive, Yellow), each in 3 shades and 5 textile textures, randomly mixed in the box — V3 variation
Use: floor and wall, indoor and outdoor (frost-proof, ISO 10545-12)
Technical data: water absorption 0.04% (ISO 10545-3) — Mohs hardness 6 (EN 101) — stain resistance class 5 (ISO 10545-14) — R10 (DIN 51130) — DIN 51097 class C — DCOF 0.58 — pendulum BS 45 dry / 36 wet — resistant to thermal shock and chemicals — Robinson test: extra heavy and high-impact use
Installation: 2 mm (0.08 in) joints, 1 mm (0.04 in) caliber tolerance, mix tiles from several boxes
Sustainability: 24% recycled content (LEED v4.1) — VOC emissions class A+
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A working sequence for architects and workplace teams specifying Tex across offices, clubs and hospitality - balancing the random three-shade field against designed Runner patterns, and keeping the matt surface honest.
