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Material Space

INAX MOSAICS

These tiles embody the beauty and wabi-sabi nature of traditional Japanese aesthetics based upon the premise that they are not mass produced but have variations between each tile that serve to enhance their collective beauty. Inax offers hundreds of innovative three-dimensional formats and glaze permutations, and provides an unrivalled quality of product with a backstory detailing the history and origins of these materials, properly befitting the resurgence of interest in products of this nature.

Ceramics have been celebrated in Japan for hundreds of years. The origins of the Inax brand lie in the collaboration with Frank Lloyd Wright in the supply of product for the 1923 redevelopment of the Imperial Hotel Tokyo.

Inax production facilities are typically family businesses located in small towns, each having its own production speciality or glaze and using raw materials sourced close to the production facility. Much of the manufacturing technology is