Get hot offers on high quality, design led porcelain tiles in May Sale. Choose a wide range of tiles, mosaic and stone less than £30.00 per SQM and reduced by up to 30%.

London, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/14/2012 -- Starting on Friday 11th May, inspirational tiling retailer, Surface, celebrates spring with some hot offers in their May SALE, with high quality, design-led porcelain tiles from less than £30.00 per SQM. Customers can choose from a wide range of tiles, mosaic and stone at the trend-setting London and Surrey showrooms with everything reduced by up to 30%.

Timeless stone simulations are a speciality at Surface and feature in the 30% off line-up including Eco Logik with warm tones and subtle veining, reduced to £29.82 per SQM and Natural 1.0, inspired by Pietra Piasentina, a sedimentary limestone found in North East Italy, and used by ancient Roman architects for public buildings and the homes of noblemen is reduced by 25% from £74.50 to £55.80 per SQM. Choose from five warm, organic tones in three finishes. Nobile is a favourite with designers, offering a great porcelain simulation of travertine marble at an attractive price-point. Even more affordable in the sale with 30% off, it costs from £39.90 per SQM (reduced from £57.00)

If texture is your pleasure then look to Wave; reduced from £65.88 to £46.11 per SQM, the raised, 'waved' texture and variance in tonality lend depth to any wall or floor appearing as if hewn from the walls of a cave or the surface of an age-worn cliff face. Chromtech in ten earthy colours represents great value from £38.69 per SQM (reduced from £55.27) and, for a splash of spring colour, the affordable recycled glass mosaic called SICIS Natural from Surface is even better value in the sale with 20% off from £95.04 per SQM.

Created in large format sizes, Foscer has an architectural palette which gives a warm, contemporary edge to any space. Available in seven muted colours and with 20% off in the sale, Foscer costs from £49.97 per SQM (reduced from £62.47)

Perfectly timed for spring, Teknowood is a porcelain tile which brilliantly simulates natural wood and can be used indoors and out. Combining nature with advances in technology, Teknowood is non-porous, colour-fast, stain resistant, highly durable and reduced by 30% during the sale to £64.08 per SQM from £91.54.

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Surface Tiles is hosting a customer open day and consultation by professional interior designers. Get countless new product ideas from professional interior designers and 30% discount on stone and tiles.

Battersea, London -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/23/2012 -- On Saturday 31st March from 9am to 6pm, Surface, leading retailer of tiles, mosaic and stone, is hosting a customer open day at their premier London store in Essex Road, London N1. Free to attend, the informal event will offer consultations from interior designers who are waiving their professional fees for the day. Visitors will pick up countless new product ideas for re-designing bathrooms, kitchens, hallways, gardens - anywhere in the home requiring beautiful surfaces.

Surface is offering 30% in-store discount throughout the day or redeemable within 4 weeks using a special money-off voucher, which must be stamped at the event. The discount is valid across all Surface tile and mosaic collections with Italian Value Range tiles starting at under £30.00 per SQM and mosaic from £83.00 per SQM. The offer also includes the latest designer collections from Tokujin Yoshioka – winner of Wallpaper Magazine's Best Design Award 2011 and Spanish celebrity designer Patricia Urquiola.

A select group of five interior designers - all KLC qualified - will be available to explain how the use of tiles can elevate schemes in the house and garden from the ordinary to the sublime, and without costing the earth. Based at Chelsea Harbour, KLC is one of London's most prestigious design schools. The diploma is notoriously difficult and has produces some of the most exciting and innovative contemporary designers who go on to work for leading practices including Kelly Hoppen, Candy & Candy, Firmdale Hotels, Harrods Design Studio, Bulthaup and Fox Linton.

One such interior designer offering advice at the Open Day is Lara Francis who was runner-up for the Designer of the Year Award in Homes & Gardens and whose work has been showcased in leading home interest magazines including Real Homes, KBBM and EKBB.

The Surface stores are market leading tile showrooms and the Islington store is frequented by many of London's leading interior designers including Lara. She often uses Surface products to blend eras and styles to create interiors which are both unique and timeless. The Open Day is a prime opportunity for members of the public to experience the levels of service, hospitality and product selection for which Surface is renowned, as well as benefiting from some valuable, additional interior design expertise.

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Latest porcelain tiles by Surface Tiles with new emerging trends and designer Ultra-slim tiles. Gets the eye-catching perfect interior designing with mosaic, stone and tiles.

Battersea, London -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/23/2012 -- Surface, leading retailer of tiles, mosaic and stone, has developed an unrivalled reputation for their dynamic product collections that deliver the very latest in design, technology and materials for tiles. Collaborating with some of the world's leading manufacturers, Surface keeps a continual eye on emerging trends and, from their three retail stores in Islington, Battersea and Surrey, influence what tile schemes, colours and textures find their way into some of London's most exclusive homes.

Technology is the most influential factor for 2012 and can be summed-up as green, slim and digital. Large formats also continue to dominate with advanced production techniques resulting in the largest format yet: the 800 x 1800mm i Marmi porcelain marble available from Surface. Around the size of a typical table top, this innovation opens up exciting new possibilities for designers and is currently the largest standard thickness tile in the world.

Ultra-slim tiles are expanding. The benefits are numerous from this innovative process which produces porcelain in large sheets up to 3 metres long x 1 metre width and from just 3mm thickness (average is around 10mm). The ultra-thin and lightweight material is also ultra eco-friendly as it uses less raw materials and energy to produce, less adhesive to fix and less packaging and transportation compared to thicker, heavier tiles. From the consumer's perspective, the lighter tiles are easier to handle and can almost eliminate grout lines from the finished scheme. For refurbishments, they are also a boon as they can be used to overtile the existing finish, for a cleaner and faster job. The technique was pioneered by Italian manufacturer Kerlite, but has now extended to most leading manufacturers who offer popular collections in the option of ultra-slim. Examples at Surface are Stontech SLIM, 4mm thick natural stone porcelain that is considered one of the best on the market and offered in eight natural stone colours. I Bianchi SLIM provides a modern take on classical elegance as it convincingly replicates Italian white marble with all the advantages of slim technology and Le Essenze SLIM interprets six of the world's most precious woods in porcelain.

Perhaps the biggest leap forward is in inkjet technology, allowing faithful reproductions of stone and marble without any of the performance issues inherent in the natural materials. With many of the world's most precious marbles, such as Crema Marfil, being over-mined and therefore becoming increasingly more expensive, porcelain reproduction also offers a progressive and sustainable alternative.

A new example that has most impressed the product researchers at Surface is Cumbria from Italian manufacturer Edimax. Available in four natural colours, Cumbria is a true evocation of revered stones from the famous Kirkstone and Burlington Cumbrian quarries. It is an example of a stone that could not be reproduced before now, as it requires the most detailed and variable decoration using inkjet printing. Two mosaic options provide additional elements for designing the perfect interior scheme.

Colours for 2012 are warm greys, browns, mushrooms, taupes and creams that in many cases echo the natural stones and marbles that they successfully emulate. Another continuing trend is texture which provides contrast with smooth surfaces and ranges from the most subtle and tactile to deep embossed patterns that create a purposefully 3D finish.

Examples are the new Pico Collection from prolific and celebrated French brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. Produced by renowned Italian manufacturer, Mutina, Pico features imperfectly straight rows of dots or dimples in a nature-inspired palette that evokes sand, minerals and cement. The matt texture is made all the more tactile by the tiny dimples which include the option of being spotted with colour. This variation is called 'Down' with the reverse pattern of small elevated dots called 'Up'.

Garland Relief from Spanish-born designer, Patricia Urquiola, is another example from her subtle and beautifully textured Bas Relief collection. Also from Mutina, this artisan produced range is influenced by traces of the past. There are four hand-made styles, all different, with Garland being a new take on a floral motif that is nostalgic but also distinctly modern with its contemporary, digital finish. The floral design is cut into the tile for an eye-catching 3D textured result.

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