Porcelain Ceramic, Tharsis

Tharsis draws its inspiration from a valuable construction material which has been utilized for the paving and decoration of prestigious buildings ever since the flourishing of the Assyro-Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations.

The name originates from the desert surrounding the Egyptian city of Nithia. In the ancient times this stone, with which the Roman emperors Nero, Diocletian and Constantine erected their palaces and sepulchers, was coming exclusively from several quarries located in the Egyptian desert.

The graphic layout of these coloured body porcelain tiles shows a mixture of sand and pebble residues with aesthetical characteristics which may vary from sedimentary rocks to porphyry.

Porphyry cromatisms distinguish the materials where the colour range moves from a light creamy white to a sandy beige, an orange brown up to warm and cool greys.

The surface of this product is enriched with a crystalline application creating a dry touch effect which embodies the full force of a highly multicoloured natural stone.