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Handcrafted contemporary design through the medium of concrete and terrazzo. Surfaces that cure

LIQUID FORMS ABOUT KAZA LIQUID FORMS EDGY FLUTES & REEDS CRACKED EARTH CRACKED EARTH FLUTES & REEDS

COLLECTION / FLOOR TILES ZAGSONE LARILLE HERBAL HILL FLOOR TILES BESPOKE ALYSS HERBAL HILL RUSSELL SQUARE HOUSE CRACKED EARTH SURFACES & COLOURS TECHNICAL INFORMATION PHOTO CREDITS

KAZA was born from the concrete controversy; rebranding the industrial material as a luxurious one through striking an impeccable balance between artistry and craftsmanship, design and engineering. In essence, we translate architecture and nature into surface, incorporating tactile 3D elements for bold accent walls and facades, and mesmerizing terrazzo patterns perfectly suited to durable feature floors, for interiors and exteriors alike. More than just a manufacturing facility, KAZA serves as both design and research & development lab (CONCREATE) facilitating the creation of unique...

CONCEPT Everything KAZA creates is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between designers, artisans, craftsmen, engineers, and architects. The group of practices and artists featured in the collections are truly global in nature and range from established multi-award winning design studios through professionals from diverse fields to emerging talents who graduated from the wold’s most prestigious art educational institutions. What they all share is our love of the material and our vision that architectural surfaces can be meaningful and ground-breaking works of art and are...

MANUFACTURING Each step of the process is being crafted by hand and watched over by attentive eyes. From the very beginning until packaging at least 10 pairs of caring hands are taking part in the process of mixing, moulding, grinding, selecting and treating the tiles before they get to leave the manufactory. Design and production live in constant symbiosis, guided by a process based on knowledge, experience and intuition. All KAZA tiles are handmade. “Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the...

COLLECTION Three-dimensional concrete tiles that will give architects and interior designers a rich palette of bespoke design solutions to work with, for interiors and exteriors alike.

“The nature of concrete as a material has always been very inspiring to me - it is poured in a liquid state, and it takes its ultimate form as it cures. There is poetry in a material that finds its form as it changes phases. When I see a concrete surface, I always imagine its liquid state, its movement as it is poured. The concept I explored for this design was the expression of flow and movement in a solid form. And perhaps the best examples of this phenomena manifests itself in the mastery of Baroque sculptors - chiseled into marble. The ephemeral qualities of capturing movement in stone...

LIQUID FORMS design by Aybars Asci, president and founder of Efficiency Lab for Architecture, is an advocate of research driven design that combines conceptual clarity with analytical processes such as the use of algorithmic tools and building performance modeling. As a practicing architect he has close to 20 years of experience, working in New York, London and Ankara, on projects located in North America, Central America, Middle East and Asia. As a former design director of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, he led multi-disciplinary teams on complex large scale projects for over 14 years,...

LIQUID FORMS 1 | 2 Hello Eternity | White

BY PATRYCJA DOMANSKA & TANJA LIGHTFOOT EDGY 3D | FLAT Hello Eternity | White Moon Garden | Light grey Reliable Shaman | Cement grey Edgy consists of two tiles, one being three dimensional, the other two and a half dimensional. They give structure to smooth walls on interior or exterior surfaces, covering walls either partially or entirely. The three dimensional form is made up of asymmetrical surfaces ‘folding’ onto one plane to form a hexagonal base. By playing with concave and convex planes and using them to accentuate one another, it creates the effect of visually pulling the user...

EDGY & SHINGLE design by Tanja Lightfoot is a product designer based in Vienna, Austria. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in 2011. After graduation she spent two years working for a Viennese architecture practice. Shortly after this she joined the atelier Madame Mohr, where she works on self-initiated as well as client projects. Patrycja Domanska is a Polish born designer, based in Vienna, Austria. She graduated with honours from the department of Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2009. In 2011, she established her design practice, where she...

EDGY 3D | FLAT Moon Garden | Light grey Islington House London, UK

BY PATRYCJA DOMANSKA & TANJA LIGHTFOOT Following the launch of Edgy in 2014, Shingle is the second three-dimensional wall tile designed for KAZA by Patrycja Domanska and Tanja Lightfoot. Shingle charmingly conveys the way nature asserts itself onto roofs and facades via vines and mosses. The form of Shingle derives from the fusion of a leaf and a roof shingle. The vertical centre line gives depth to the tile and creates an illusion of two different colour shades through the natural reflection of light. The organic character is emphasized by the colour chart in two shades of green, light...

SHINGLE 1 Bespoke blue Skyfall Hotel Santorini, GR

BY LEVI FIGNAR, NEXT SHIP TRE 1 | 2 | 3 TRE 0 | 1/2 Hello Eternity | White Moon Garden | Light grey Reliable Shaman | Cement grey Weekend Haven | Pale green Surreal Resonance | Rose beige Poetic Union | Khaki beige Tre’s magnetic visual appeal is the result of precisely rendered angular contours that harness the beauty of symmetry, as well as the dynamic interplay of depth, light and shadow, and the energetic movement of geometric flow. Tre allows one to create endless pattern combinations from the most simple, minimalist applications to the most elaborate kaleidoscopic masterpieces. Tre’s...