Silver Building Materials and Construction Components Design · 2024
Kazbegi Slab
by Klax
- A' Design Award 2024 Silver Winner in Building Materials and Construction Components Design
- Awarded April 15, 2024
- CLIENT: KLax
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 218,392
- Verification code FAB7329A6D · Verify this award
About Kazbegi Slab
Kazbegi is a large format porcelain slab designed for walls and floors. The slab measures 3200 millimetres in length and 1600 millimetres in width. The surface reproduces the natural texture of stone, with marble like veining and soft natural colour. The design is inspired by the form of Mount Kazbek and brings the character of mountains and stone into interior spaces. Production uses digital mould technology, macro capture of stone patterns, three dimensional scanning and multi layer printing. Kazbegi suits living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and study rooms.
Positioned within the evolving discourse of contemporary material innovation that seeks to bridge the enduring appeal of natural stone with the practical demands of modern architectural practice, KLAX's Kazbegi Slab emerges as a distinguished contribution to the field of building materials and construction components. The design demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of how surface pattern can function as spatial protagonist, transforming what might otherwise serve as mere backdrop into an active compositional element that engages viewers with its dynamic visual narrative. The veining pattern—executed with remarkable fidelity to geological precedent while achieving the consistency and reliability that contemporary specification demands—suggests the frozen moment of tectonic forces, capturing in permanent form the fluid dynamics of mineral formation. Technical accomplishment reveals itself in the seamless integration of multiple large-format panels, where pattern continuity across joints creates the impression of a single monolithic surface despite the practical necessity of modular installation. The chromatic sophistication of the design, with its nuanced gradations between cool blue-gray passages and warmer cream-toned areas, demonstrates an awareness of how stone coloration interacts with changing light conditions throughout the day, maintaining visual interest across varied illumination scenarios. Within this interior setting, the material participates in a broader design narrative that celebrates the dialogue between natural and crafted elements, between organic gesture and geometric discipline, between the permanence of stone and the warmth of lived domestic experience. One might contemplate how materials of such visual presence invite a renewed appreciation for the surfaces that contain and define our inhabited spaces.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Following the Italian design wisdom of nearly 80 years, KLAX together with Tecnografica, the top Italian design agency, integrates the elegance, luxury and extreme tension of Italian design, deconstructs and reorganizes the porcelain slab materials, refines and sublimates the artistic conception of Italian aesthetics, injects every detail of the products, and constructs an Italian minimalist aesthetic scene.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- The large sized porcelain slab is 3200 millimeters long and 1600 millimeters wide. With each inch of smooth marble texture showcasing its natural color, the product can be used for walls and floors in living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, study rooms, indoor gardens, and other spaces, spreading advanced lifestyle and aesthetics to customers, awakening their imagination towards an ideal home.
- Tags
- Slab, Product, Material, Floor, Wall, Furnishing
- Production Technology
- Innovative digital mold 3.0 technology uses a camera alignment device with the same pixel as world-renowned paintings for scanning and replicating, macro-capturing stone patterns, 3D scanning, multi-layer stacking, and replicating nature's masterpieces.
- Design Challenge
- It incorporates Spanish-imported Torrecid ink to reproduce the pure color of the stone, the industry's advanced 18-channel 3D inkjet machine precisely controls the ink flow, making the color presentation of the products richer and more accurate.
- Project Duration
- The product was designed and sold on the market in 2023.
- Operation Flow
- Through the solution output of KLAX headquarters, customized service by service suppliers, and the one-stop delivery services including orders, logistics, auxiliary materials, and construction, to provide consumers with comprehensive solutions for porcelain slab home decoration and porcelain slab customized home products.
- Research
- With its differentiated R&D design and excellent physical performance, KLAX comprehensively creates the world's top fashion products, creating a home life experience of "integration of natural texture and humanistic temperature". At the same time, it also provides whole porcelain slab customized solutions.
- Inspiration
- Klax draws inspiration from Mount Kasbeck's agile figure, incorporates the charm of mountains and stone, and creates a natural sense of living environment. This product adopts Klax's patent of the Real Stone texture approach, the stone texture of the surface looks natural.
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