Wabi-Sabi Shiro Rock by plonc.

Wabi-Sabi Shiro Rock is conceived as a counterpoint to the clinical uniformity of the standard white tile. Designed and produced by plonc., it is a surface that inscribes imperfection into form, recalling the tactile presence of weathered stone and the softened contours of a river-worn pebble. Its reliefs, slight undulations, fractured lines, subtle depressions are not defects but signals of time’s passage.

This tile resists the logic of erasure that has defined whiteness in architecture. Instead of disappearing into neutrality, it asserts a quiet gravity, shaping the atmosphere of a room through texture and variation. It is not a surface to be overlooked but a material ground in which light, shadow, and memory remain in constant dialogue.

Guided by the Japanese philosophy of Wabi Sabi, Shiro Rock embodies impermanence, incompleteness, and the dignity of the unrefined. It reframes the white tile not as a blankness to be filled but as a meditation on presence, a recognition that beauty resides in the irregular, the unfinished, the contingent.

This is plonc.’s white tile: an authored surface that refuses anonymity, a material essay on imperfection and time.

Colour: White Grey and Textured.

Size: 1200x600x9mm