our story
our story
not just a tile company
planck is a small shop making tiles whose faces hold a figure. it is the work of one maker, matt pray, in hamilton, ontario.
the job is simple. mill a master. take a mold. pour the face. colour lives in the mix. when the tiles sit together, the relief is meant to run across the joint. that is the wall.
the shop
a table in hamilton
there is no factory floor. there is a table, a mill, and the record of every figure cut so far. each master is two parts: a milled face on a particle-board backing, walls on the sides so the cast keeps a square.
from that master we take the mold, then pour. what leaves the shop is a tile you can hold. packs of four, so a designer can feel the wall before a room is finished.
the figure
six inches, continued
every tile is 6 inches by 6 inches. one size, one rate: forty dollars a square foot. four figures in the catalog now. if a wall needs a figure we have not cut, that is a new master. write and say what the space is for.
the colours are mineral. white limestone, terracotta, sage, charcoal, and the rest of the body. nothing is printed on. nothing is a glaze sitting on top.
by matt pray. handcrafted in hamilton, ontario.
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