A breathtaking kitchen created with Cosentino’s Sensa® Orinoco, Dekton® Domoos and Dekton® Laurent surfaces
When Tania Nikolitsis, principal designer at Tanik Design, was asked to design a “kitchen dressed to kill,” she couldn’t go past the striking looks and high performance of surfaces by Cosentino. The client – one of Adelaide’s leading kitchen manufacturers – wanted a sleek, luxurious, state-of-the-art kitchen with an oversized island. Tania selected Sensa by Cosentino® in Orinoco to make a statement on the island and splashback, paired with Dekton® Domoos for the benchtops. “It’s an orchestrated marriage of natural granite and ultracompact material, creating a breathtaking kitchen for an epic and luxury lifestyle,” says Tania.
The exotic beauty of brightly polished Sensa® Orinoco is the showpiece of the kitchen, cladding the front of the island and splashback. Sensa by Cosentino® is a revolutionary collection of natural granite surfaces sourced from Brazil and India. Orinoco has intense, dynamic veining with swirling patterns and strong movement of white and bronze on a deep black background. Each pair of slabs perfectly mimics each other, creating a seamless and uninterrupted effect.
“The stature of the island was instrumental and the pivotal force behind the entire kitchen design,” Tania says. “I wanted a natural stone that was dynamic, heroic and unique in its presence. No other product offered the look of Sensa® Orinoco, hence why it stood aside from the rest.”
The client’s love of race cars provided inspiration for the choice of benchtop, with matte black 12-millimetre Dekton® Domoos being reminiscent of a tarmac. It also provides a heat-, scratch- and stain-resistant surface that is strong and durable in high-traffic areas. “Dekton® surpasses any other product in functionality and aesthetics. It’s low maintenance and easy to clean, with jumbo slabs that catered for the exceeded sections of the island,” Tania explains.
A sunken laneway through the centre of the kitchen island is “like a ‘GT Stripe’ on a high-performance race car,” says Tania. This centre strip can elevate or descend at the push of a button, to provide a large flat surface, or to provide access to appliances and other storage areas within the island.
The kitchen island is slightly raised off the floor as a monolithic art form. “This required considerable engineering, but was worth every investment as it instantly alleviated what could have been an extremely hefty and overbearing look,” Tania says.
The gold, copper, bronze and black colour palette of Sensa® Orinoco is continued throughout the joinery in the kitchen and living areas, including the bar. Tania used Dekton® Laurent for the slab-like benchtop and splashbacks in the bar, where the client’s collection of aged, distilled cognac is on display, and the dramatic lighting illuminates the intense gold veining of Dekton® Laurent.
“The end result surpassed my expectations. Pushing all boundaries, this design is by far one of the most challenging, yet most rewarding, in my career,” Tania says.
Explore the full range of colours across Sensa® and Dekton® here.
Photography by Jodie Allen.
The exotic beauty of brightly polished Sensa® Orinoco is the showpiece of the kitchen, cladding the front of the island and splashback. Sensa by Cosentino® is a revolutionary collection of natural granite surfaces sourced from Brazil and India. Orinoco has intense, dynamic veining with swirling patterns and strong movement of white and bronze on a deep black background. Each pair of slabs perfectly mimics each other, creating a seamless and uninterrupted effect.
“The stature of the island was instrumental and the pivotal force behind the entire kitchen design,” Tania says. “I wanted a natural stone that was dynamic, heroic and unique in its presence. No other product offered the look of Sensa® Orinoco, hence why it stood aside from the rest.”
The client’s love of race cars provided inspiration for the choice of benchtop, with matte black 12-millimetre Dekton® Domoos being reminiscent of a tarmac. It also provides a heat-, scratch- and stain-resistant surface that is strong and durable in high-traffic areas. “Dekton® surpasses any other product in functionality and aesthetics. It’s low maintenance and easy to clean, with jumbo slabs that catered for the exceeded sections of the island,” Tania explains.
A sunken laneway through the centre of the kitchen island is “like a ‘GT Stripe’ on a high-performance race car,” says Tania. This centre strip can elevate or descend at the push of a button, to provide a large flat surface, or to provide access to appliances and other storage areas within the island.
The kitchen island is slightly raised off the floor as a monolithic art form. “This required considerable engineering, but was worth every investment as it instantly alleviated what could have been an extremely hefty and overbearing look,” Tania says.
The gold, copper, bronze and black colour palette of Sensa® Orinoco is continued throughout the joinery in the kitchen and living areas, including the bar. Tania used Dekton® Laurent for the slab-like benchtop and splashbacks in the bar, where the client’s collection of aged, distilled cognac is on display, and the dramatic lighting illuminates the intense gold veining of Dekton® Laurent.
“The end result surpassed my expectations. Pushing all boundaries, this design is by far one of the most challenging, yet most rewarding, in my career,” Tania says.
Explore the full range of colours across Sensa® and Dekton® here.
Photography by Jodie Allen.
Silestone® by Cosentino presents Silestone® Loft Series, a new and sophisticated range of colours that offers a fresh and contemporary take on the industrial and architectural look of concrete and cement.
Cities are filled with concrete walls, bridges and structures that preserve their industrial character, and over the years, this aesthetic has crossed over into interior design and architecture to become a firm choice for high-quality design. Silestone® Loft Series is the result of this trend, and offers designs inspired by concrete and cement, technically improved to offer the unrivalled mechanical properties only found with Silestone®. In addition to its very low liquid absorption, Silestone® is a highly resistant material to stains, impacts and scratching.
Silestone® Loft Series is presented in two initial colours: Brooklyn and Silver Lake.
"Brooklyn"
Brooklyn offers an intense grey finish replete with totally random contrasts and effects. Brooklyn was designed to be the absolute showpiece of a space, offering innovative design for the market in quartz surfaces. It features a striking personality, a rustic and industrial character, and pure and elegant beauty.
"Silver Lake"
Silver lake is a unique, original and daring colour with loads of personality. Its elegant white background is superimposed with soft and elegant gradations of grey, to give any space with a strong and stylish identity.
The significant innovation behind the Silestone® Loft Series is the consequence of months of hard work by the Cosentino R&D department. As a result, Loft Series also comes with a new Silestone® raw texture, in keeping with the industrial look of the new collection. Raw masterfully replicates the feel and look of building materials such as cement and concrete, offering a surface that combining relief with a sublime matt finish filled with elegance and subtlety.
Cosentino Group launches two new colours of Dekton® by Cosentino, where nature and its pure aesthetic take a starring role. Under the names Vera and Kira, these two new colours are sure to succeed thanks to the perfect look that only the purity and spontaneity of natural stone can offer and the functional and mechanical perfection that only the ultracompact surface Dekton® can provide.
These two new offerings are inspired by the elegant, versatile appearance of the popular Gris Pulpis marble, distinguished from one another by their base tone. While Vera offers a grey, cement-like colour, Kira’s finish is full of earth tones. Vera and Kira are arriving as part of the Dekton® Natural Collection, a series that reflects Cosentino’s desire to emulate the best of nature, producing a faithful reproduction of the details traced by the hand of millions of years of geological processes.
"Vera"
Inspired by the well-known Gris Pulpis, is a colour with brushstrokes of natural stone and cement. Its veined structure and cement-like base make Vera a fusion of the natural and industrial, putting the most elegant elements of both on display. Its grey finish combines with a structure of bright veins that break with the aesthetic of conventional colours. An offering with an architectural bent, designed from functionality and the latest trends.
"Kira"
Inspired by natural stone, is a colour that resembles the marble Gris Pulpis in its delicacy and versatility. A random distribution of grey veins of different intensities strike across a chromatic base made from earth tones. Kira is defined by timelessness, striking visuals and plenty of personality thanks to the excellent combination of a smooth matte texture, intense base colour and sharp tracery of veins.
Cosentino is making a major worldwide sales launch with the presentation of new finishes for Dekton® and Silestone® that address current aesthetic and decorative trends in interior and exterior architecture and design. The two trends defining this important launch are the Cement trend and Natural trend.
These new colours were unveiled this year at Milan Design Week 2018, where they were warmly welcomed and enthusiastically accepted by professionals and end consumers alike.
"Cement Trend"
Cosentino has managed to reinterpret the different grey and industrial tones that make up building materials such as cement and concrete, and whose presence in avant-garde and contemporary design grows every day. This trend includes the new Laos, Soke, Kreta and Lunar colours from the Dekton® Industrial Collection, and the Brooklyn and Silver Lake colours from the Silestone® Loft Series.
"Natural Trend"
Cosentino continues to bet on the beauty of the natural, the beauty of the eternal, the beauty given to us by the most well-known and requested marbles asked for by lovers of natural stone. Within this trend, we find the new Vera and Kira colours from Dekton®, as well as the new classics Pearl Jasmine, Eternal Marfil and Desert Silver from the Silestone® Eternal Collection.
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The exclusive event was attended by nearly 300 people, including various company distributors and clients in Toronto and Quebec, as well as institutional delegates, designers, architects and media representatives. The company was represented by Eduardo Cosentino, EVP of Global Sales & CEO of Cosentino North America; Santiango Alfonso, VP Marketing and Communication; Massimo Ballucchi, Director of Marketing of Cosentino North America; Philip Eeles, Regional Director of Distribution North Region; Suzy Margorian, Manager of the Toronto Cosentino City as well as the Cosentino Leadership Commitee members Brandon Calvo, Gary Andler and Patty Dominguez.
Purchased from a local distributor and opened in 2015, Cosentino’s Toronto showroom has undergone a major series of renovations to adapt to the standards and shared design of these inspiring, innovative spaces for designers and architects that the company has scattered across the world. The space, which has more than 900m2 of total floorspace divided between two floors, is located in the Castlefield Design District (665 Caledonia Rd, Toronto, ON M6E 4V8), and now offers all the next-generation resources featured by this type of showroom.
The brand, once again with Cindy Crawford’s support, is continuing its commitment to this innovative showroom model, located in the hearts of the world’s main cities. At present, following the recent opening in Miami, Cosentino has 11 ‘Cities’.
Dekton® will be the sponsor and official worktop partner of the World's 50 Best Restaurants 2018, re-affirming its leadership in the world of international gastronomy.
This year, Dekton® sponsors the Sustainable Restaurant Award 2018, and Santiago Alfonso, Cosentino Vice-President of Communications and Marketing, will hand over the precious statuette to the winner. As the main sponsor, Dekton® by Cosentino will have a booth located in the Palacio itself, where a Dekton® worktop in the colour Orix will bring power, personality and beauty to a location whose central theme is the element ‘fire’. The Spanish brand Cinco Jotas will occupy a space next to the Cosentino booth, where visitors can taste the best Iberian ham and fall in love with a marvellous Dekton® worktop in the colour Domoos.
Cosentino partners with Spain’s most relevant celebration of architecture and urban planning. The gala was celebrated las Friday 18th of May in Madrid. The auditorium of Wanda Metropolitano stadium hosted the awards ceremony of Spain’s Architecture and Urban Planning Awards, chosen in 2017 by the Superior Council of Spain’s Architecture Associations (CSCAE). Together with the Gold Medal, these are the most relevant architecture awards in Spain and they recognize architectural and urban planning excellence, as well as the support of entities to promote projects of high quality. 
