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Porcelain,curated
We make tile in Los Angeles and Tucson. We don't make porcelain. Two collections from Italy live under our roof because they earned the place.
Why is it here
The bar is the same.
"If we can make it, we make it. If we can't make it yet, we curate it."
ARTO is a clay and concrete works. We make those materials in California and Arizona. Porcelain isn't us. We curated it because it brings something different to a project.
Color that holds for decades, no patina, no fade. A surface that asks for almost no maintenance. Stone looks of a kind our handmade clay doesn't pursue. An install built for speed.
So we set a standard, and waited until two collections from Italy met it. The palette had to sit beside our clay and concrete, not fight them. The format range had to give designers room to compose. The performance had to back the spec. Both did. They're here for the same reason everything else here is. They make people stop and ask, where did you get that.
Modern terra cotta porcelain
Terra Crea
Terra Crea reads like terra cotta and behaves like porcelain. The palette runs from sun-bleached limestone through sun-baked sand dunes, fertile loam, smoldering pumice, and back to vibrant baked earth.
Sized from a 3x3 mosaic to a 24x48 plank. The palette speaks the same earth-tone language as our high-fire terracotta and our Roman concrete, so a designer can hold one design conversation across a whole project, no matter which materials end up where.
- 5 Colors
- 5 Formats
- 3/8" Thick
Rustic tile, mosaics and pavers
Rustic Italian Porcelain
This is the cooler half of the porcelain program, and the more popular of the two. Where Terra Crea reads warm and earthen, Rustic Italian Porcelain delivers stone. Crema reads as travertine, with cream and gold veining. Grigio takes on the character of natural stone in a versatile gray. Nero holds with subtle white and brown veining. Umbria carries the warm earthen tones of Italy itself, shot through with silvery light.
The formats run wide. The 18mm KONFORT paver comes at 8x8 and 8x12 with a grip surface, for pool decks and wet entries. The 9mm Anticato tile, at 24x24, scales for floor plans that want quiet, uninterrupted ground. At 10mm, Murotto runs long at 6x24, and the two mosaics, Exa at 10x10 and Trama at 12x12, set rhythm against the larger formats.
- 4Colors
- 6Formats
- 9, 10, 18Millimeters thick
Nine colors
The color palette
Nine porcelains under one roof. From the warmest red Cotto to the coolest Nero, every piece in our porcelain catalog speaks the same earthy design language as the clay and concrete we make ourselves.
Terra Crea
- Bianco
- Duna
- Grafite
- Carbone
- Cotto
Rustic Italian Porcelain
- Umbria
- Grigio
- Nero
- Crema
These images do not represent actual color. Please order a sample.
When to choose it
A material is a decision.
Every ARTO material can live indoors and out. Every one works on a pool deck, a sidewalk, a college campus, a commercial floor. Our clay and concrete are on sidewalks in San Clemente, in churches in San Juan Capistrano, on campuses at Scripps, and in large production areas across the country. The question isn't whether the material can do the job. It is what you are asking the floor to be, and how you want it laid.
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The look stays put
Porcelain doesn't patina. The color you see in the sample is the color you'll see in fifteen years. Clean, static, modern. If you are chasing a French farmhouse, a Tuscan courtyard, a lived-in patina, that's where our clay or concrete earns its keep instead.
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Maintenance is minimal
Our materials sit on a spectrum. Concrete asks for the most attention. Clay asks for less. Porcelain asks for least. If you want beauty without a calendar, porcelain meets you there.
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The install is freestyle
24x48 and 24x24 cut grout lines, speed install, and visually quiet a long floor. When the architecture wants clean, uninterrupted ground, porcelain is the material that scales.