sophisticated, hardwearing porcelain

Sophisticated surfaces for interiors and outdoors

In 2019, Smartstone established an exclusive partnership with Italy’s Atlas Plan, a European porcelain leader renowned worldwide for its superb replications of marble and natural stone-look surfaces. With its exceptional aesthetic versatility for indoor-outdoor usage, Atlas Plan’s Australian porcelain collection perfectly complements Smartstone’s unrivalled engineered surface offering. Porcelain is a ceramic product which, through a highly technological process, fuses raw materials using intense temperatures and extreme pressure. The result is a permanently hardened, ultra-compact surface that is non-porous, NSF-approved and heat, chemical and stain resistant. Porcelain is composed of a low silica blend of approximately 30% clay, 25% quartz and 45% feldspar, with no glues or resins used. The technical performance and refined aesthetic of porcelain come together in Atlas Plan’s versatile large format 1600mm x 3200mm (nominal size) porcelain panels. Porcelain’s durability and UV stability make it ideal for outdoor spaces, including building facades, paving and wall panelling, as well as demanding, high-traffic interior spaces such as porcelain benchtops and kitchen splashbacks, sinks, tables, bathroom vanities and shower walls... the applications are limitless. A major advantage of porcelain is its slab thickness which can offer an ultra-slim, modern look or can be mitred to create deeper edged profiles or waterfall features.