First Light | Terrazzo

First Light takes its name from the early hour of morning, before the day has decided what it will be — light that is clear without being bright.

Features

Materials & Composition

A low porosity material comprised of natural stones homogeneously combined with cement and pigment oxide which the variance in these raw materials is a feature of the unique design.

Finish & Appearance

Honed with subtle texture to endure wearability over time and patina for an honest aesthetic responding to the application and it's conditions. Tiles are calibrated, rectified with a small bevel to the top edge with a reduced amount of chips and imperfections for a more refined aesthetic.

Scope of use

Floor/Wall/Cladding

A Material That Waited

First Light and Dune have been in development for years. Not held back because they were difficult to make, but because a material like this cannot be commissioned to a date, and because the years in between changed what people wanted from the rooms they live in. The work continued and the release waited.

Fibonacci’s first range was released more than twenty years ago, and those colours still specify today. Durability is the expected part, and the easier half. The harder question is whether a material is still wanted in thirty years, since a surface is far more often replaced for how it looks than for how it has worn.

Materials That Would Never Meet

In both First Light and Dune, soft, rounded fragments in blush, fawn and cream sit against sharper, darker ones.

They are stones of different character, the kind that would never be found together in nature, let alone settle in the same ground. Brought together here on purpose, they are where the friction in the surface comes from, one chip catching the light while the next absorbs it. Nothing loud, just enough to hold the eye a moment longer than a single quarried stone would.