Milan’s historic Neo-Renaissance Casa Manzoni set the scene for Cosentino’s launch of ĒCLOS during Milan Design Week; a new brand developed in response to growing demand for sustainable, low-silica surfaces.
In partnership with Cosentino.
Milan Design Week has long been the proving ground for ideas that sit at the intersection of industry and design culture. For Cosentino, the week offered something more specific: a moment to step back from their established portfolio and ask what a surface material built for the present moment might look like.
Produced using INLAYR technology, ĒCLOS fuses minerals and recycled materials within a zero-crystalline silica composition, with the necessary depth and palette variation required for interior applications. Developed with robotic precision and layered decorative processes, each slab is designed to withstand temperatures of up to 220°C, including direct contact with cookware.
At the centre of the installation in Milan sat AXIS, a new table collection conceived with British designer Tom Dixon, and engineered by ACTIU. The collection is defined by intersecting aluminium structures, translating Dixon’s industrial approach into a precisely engineered system, with ĒCLOS’ Eclectic Veins range forming the table surfaces.
From there, the exhibition unfolded through a series of connected spaces that gradually shifted the focus from furniture to atmosphere. Visitors first moved through The Sanctuary, where illuminated totems and integrated ĒCLOS surfaces introduced the material in its architectural form. Bell portable lamps and frosted Press lighting by Tom Dixon cast a diffused glow across the surfaces before the experience opened into the Dining Room, where AXIS tables and Dixon’s Groove dining chairs were arranged in a series of conversational groupings.
Developed in response to growing demand for sustainable surfaces, ĒCLOS was unveiled through a multi-room installation in Milan’s historic Casa Manzoni. The exhibition shifted from furniture to atmosphere, presenting ĒCLOS through a series of connected spatial experiences.
The material language changed again in the Sound Bath. Here, sculptural ĒCLOS bathroom forms sat beneath Dixon’s chrome Melt lighting, with mirrored surfaces and sound elements altering the way the material is perceived. In the Reflection Gallery, modular installations and mirrored compositions pulled apart the geometry of the collection, lit by cool-toned Pose portables by Tom Dixon. The sequence concluded in the Forum, where guests gathered for talks and panel discussions centred on the sustainability discussions that informed the development of the new brand.
At times reflective and atmospheric, elsewhere structural and resolved, ĒCLOS places surface and structure in direct relation, where neither reads independently of the other.
The launch brought together surface design, furniture and lighting within a single exhibition environment. Illuminated displays highlighted the material qualities of ĒCLOS against the historic interiors of Casa Manzoni.
