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Granby Workshop

Granby Workshop is design-led manufacturer of recycled tiles and architectural surfaces based in Liverpool.

Its products are designed through extensive material investigations. Focused on the creative potential of manufacturing and use techniques that introduce chance and randomness to the production line, no two products are ever the same.

Granby Workshop's unique ceramics make distinctive and playful additions to buildings and interiors all over the world.

Granby Rock is a bold, marbled recycled terrazzo made by combining crushed recycled aggregates, pigment, sand, cement and GGBS - a byproduct of steel production. Granby Rock is handmade using a traditional bench casting process.

Each mix is individually prepared, poured into formwork, reinforced with stainless steel rebar and allowed to cure for 28 days. Once a slab has reached full hardness, we grind and polish it using diamond pads to reveal its unique surface.

Encaustic Tiles are a modern reinvention of the traditional coloured ceramic floor tile. Made using a high performance, vitreous clay body with 72% recycled content, they are formed by hand in large clay blocks before being sliced and flattened into shape using a 60 tonne hydraulic press.

A spin-off from its original Granby Rock recipe, a new recycled Brick + Slate Terrazzo is a floor tile produced using recycled brick, terracotta tile and roofing slate. The tiles were developed in collaboration with a local terrazzo manufacturer in the North West.

The exotic imported marble chippings normally used in terrazzo have been replaced with by-products from local industry. Crushed waste from brick and tile producers is mixed and cast with sand and cement. The tiles are ground and polished, revealing a speckled light grey base decorated with fragments of red and blue.

Location

Liverpool, United Kingdome

Product

Ceramics, Terrazzo

Segment

Residential, Workplace, Retail, Hospitality, Public realm

Material Source Studios

Manchester, Glasgow, London

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