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Inside the Mittsu Sample Warehouse

Hidden within our logistics network is a space dedicated entirely to inspiration. The Mittsu Sample Warehouse holds over 20,000 genuine Japanese tile samples, carefully organised and ready to disp...

Japanese Tile Sheets that Embrace Architectural Form

In contemporary architecture, curves invite softness, movement, and a sense of flow. While the tiles themselves are not curved, certain formats in the Mittsu collection lend themselves beautifully...

Award-Nominated Restaurant Features Mittsu’s Wall Oribe Japanese Tiles

Kasumigaseki in Dubai, featuring Mittsu’s Wall Oribe tiles, has been nominated for a Restaurant & Bar Design Award. This project reflects a growing demand for Japanese tiles in UK and global ho...

Grout Colour

How Grout Colour Transforms the Look of Japanese Tiles When designing with Japanese tiles, grout colour plays a crucial role in the final appearance of your installation. The same tile can take on ...

The Most Important Room in a Restaurant These Days Is the Bathroom

● It’s not only the selfie station—it’s where the biggest impressions have an outsize impact. By Kate Krader, for Bloomberg Businessweek See the full article here When you walk into Coqodaq, New Yo...

WOW House, Chelsea Harbour, London

We were delighted to be invited to be part of this years WOW house in the Design Centre Chelsea Harbour, London. @michaelisboyd & @houseofrohl.uk designed the primary bathroom and featured our ...

Custom Tiles

While we have always offered custom tiles, during our most recent visit to Tajimi in Japan, we took a deep dive with our manufacturers to find a way to make the wonderful results that are achievabl...

Historic Haarlem House

Interiors studio Barde vanVoltt has renovated this early 1900s house in the Dutch city of Haarlem

Sloan Street Deli

Arcaico Japanese tiles in green are featured heavily in the renovation of the Sloan Street Deli. We love the way the designer used them in the curves around the counter. You can read about the pro...

Why Japanese Tiles?

People often ask why we specialise in Japanese tiles. In addition to the obvious beauty and elegance of our tiles from the Tajimi region of Japan, there are some less apparent reasons.

Japanese Porcelain Tiles: A Beautiful Blend of Tradition and Modernity

What makes Japanese  porcelain tiles so special? Japanese porcelain tile is not your ordinary tile. It is a work of art that reflects centuries of Japanese culture and craftsmanship. Each tile is...

Bisque Golf

Bisque, the newest golf retailer in Europe, aims to challenge the traditional and exclusive nature of the sport by embracing inclusivity and modern fashion trends. To achieve this, the design team ...

The Architecture of Japanese Hospitality (part 3)

Since ancient times, “屏風 (Byoubu)” has been used as windbreaks and partitions. What's more, Japanese paintings were drawn on these, and they have come to be prized as works of art. “Byoubu” are pla...

The Architecture of Japanese Hospitality (part 2)

Works of art and seasonal flowers are displayed on the “床の間 (Tokonoma)” to entertain guests.

The Architecture of Japanese Hospitality (part 1)

和の設え - wa no shitsurae Hospitality in Japanese Architecture (part 1) Each culture in the world had nurtured its own style of architecture, Japanesearchitecture is alive with hospitality, and love...

NEXT Restraurant Amsterdam

We were impressed and delighted by the innovative ways Interior Designers, TANK Amsterdam, incorporated our tiles in their incredible new project, NEXT, @next.ndsm. Sairin in Brown Mix takes pride ...

International Restaurant & Bar Design Awards

  The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards is the most important and influential design competition for food and beverage spaces worldwide. In its 15th year, it recognises and celebrates the world's ...

INAX Featured in Dezeen

The "rough, earthy textures" of tiles should be used to bring warmth and texture to every room in the home, not just the bathroom and kitchen, according to the Japanese brand INAX.

Porcelain Outside

The vast majority of the tiles we supply end up in bathrooms and kitchens; which is great because smooth glazed tiles are ideally suited to wet areas that need to be kept clean, with our Japanese q...

Francisco Sutherland Architects - SPAN KITCHEN

This kitchen design is for a Span house, in Blackheath, London. It sits within a group of 19 houses which forms Parkend (completed in 1968). Part of an ongoing refurbishment plan, the new kitchen w...

Yohen in Paris

Federico Masotto has transformed a 1920s Parisian town house and completely redesigned its layout. The result is a bold architectural statement and an interior that showcases numerous collaboration...

We love Curves

We love it when designers get creative with curves.    Céline Erlam & Caroline Sacreste of INDIE & CO. have produced a stunning bathroom for their clients in Wimbledon, London! Photography ...