Terrazzo
Stone chip set in a binder and ground flat. An engineered surface with a five-hundred-year history and a current moment.
View terrazzo in the catalog →Terrazzo is marble, granite or glass chip set in a cement or resin binder, then ground and polished. Slab terrazzo arrives finished; poured terrazzo is installed and ground in place.
The chip size, chip colour and binder colour are all specified independently, which is why terrazzo is unusually controllable for something that reads as random.
Where it performs
- Commercial and hospitality flooring
- Vanity tops, reception desks and bar fronts
- Wall cladding in circulation spaces
- Any project wanting pattern without directional veining
Why specifiers choose it
- Visually busy but non-directional — it hides wear, joints and traffic patterns
- Repeatable across a large area in a way natural stone is not
- Chip and binder can be matched to a palette rather than found in a quarry
What to watch
- Cement-bound terrazzo is porous and needs sealing; resin-bound is not.
- Chip scale reads completely differently at sample size than at room size. Always view a large sample, and view it on the floor.
- Slab terrazzo has visible joints. Poured terrazzo does not, but brings a wet trade and a cure period onto the programme.
Finishes
Polished and honed. Polished is standard for slab; honed reduces glare in large floor areas and is common in hospitality.