The best surfaces are the ones that settle into a space quietly, holding the room together in ways that only become apparent when something lesser is specified in their place. Dimore Surfaces was built around that understanding. The Italian brand makes sintered stone surfaces produced through a process that heats raw materials above 1200 degrees Celsius and compresses them under 44,000 tons of pressure using GEA PRESS technology. The result is a material dense enough and durable enough to be specified for flooring, wall cladding, countertops, and architectural facades across both interior and exterior applications.
Each surface is developed with a glazing method called dry granular technology, which prevents light distortion and produces a high-definition, almost mirror-like finish that conventional surface treatments struggle to match. The resulting surfaces are scratch-resistant, stain-resistant, heat-resistant, and non-porous, giving architects a single material language that can move across a project from floor to wall to facade without compromise. Within this technical framework, Dimore develops its collections, each one a design response to a specific material reference drawn from the natural world.
Midas and the Brillio Finish
The Midas collection is where Dimore’s material thinking is most clearly expressed. A series of large-format sintered stone tiles, Midas draws on the philosophy of wabi-sabi, recreating the subtle irregularities of natural stone rather than smoothing them away. Each surface in the collection is a careful reconstruction of nature’s quiet imperfections: delicate ripples, soft scratches, and gentle tonal shifts, rendered in an earthy, restrained palette that invites both the eye and the hand to linger.
At the centre of the collection is Brillio, the surface finish that brought Dimore its Red Dot Award in Product Design 2025. Inspired by the raw tactility of slate, Brillio pairs that rustic material character with the technical rigour the collection demands. It is anti-stain, scratch-resistant, and built specifically for high-traffic environments: hotels, retail spaces, offices, and architectural applications where performance and appearance are equally non-negotiable. Available in five colours and in sizes ranging from 600 by 1200 millimetres to 1200 by 2800 millimetres, Brillio gives designers the flexibility to use the finish across a project at scale without losing the intimacy of the material story it tells.
“Receiving the Red Dot Award is more than a milestone,” said the brand’s directors, Santosh Bharuka and Ashish Chirania. “The real success lies in seeing our surfaces become part of the stories architects, designers, and homeowners create.”
Designed to Outlast the Project
Dimore’s research and development is based in Sassuolo, the historic centre of Italian ceramic production, where the brand pairs that heritage with a deliberately forward-looking approach to material science. Its environmental argument follows from its engineering. Surfaces built to last for generations are surfaces that never need replacing, which the brand considers the most direct sustainability case a materials company can make.
Dimore Surfaces is an Associate Sponsor of Design Democracy 2026. Explore their collections at dimoresurfaces.it
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