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Among the twenty-four references of Futura there is one called Microchip. The name is not decorative licence: when 41zero42 lists what the collection is made of, alongside Pierre Chareau and the Bauhaus it names cyber style, and the drawing follows. For an office in Pune or Gurugram, a tile that carries a circuit as its pattern is closer to home than a floral or a marble effect, and it sits in a collection that also offers Tubes, Triangles and Bird if the room needs a different register.
Everything around those four patterns stays deliberately quiet, which is what lets them speak. The five grounds start from Grey, the cement tone at the core of the range, and continue with Blue, Rose, White and Black; the four geometric families are Grid, Half, T and Drop. One size for everything, 15×15 cm at 10 mm, HD digital glazed porcelain, matt: stain class 5, R10 with a DCOF of 0.50, abrasion class IV, water absorption at 0.3% and a breaking strength of 46 N/mm² where 35 is required. La Mercanti ships Futura to Indian projects from Italy and sets the ratio of decors to grounds on the drawing, because on a 15 cm module the pattern density is a design decision, not a supply one.
Collection: Futura, 41zero42
Manufacturer: 41zero42, Fiorano Modenese (Modena), Italy
Technology: HD digital glazed porcelain, BIaGL group
Size and thickness: 15×15 cm, 10 mm — the collection's only size
Finish: matt (natural)
Grounds (5): Grey — the cement grey that is the collection's main colour — White, Black, Blue, Rose
Decorative families (4): T (White, Blue, Rose) · Drop (White, Blue, Rose, Black) · Grid (White, Blue, Rose, Black) · Half (White, Black, Blue, Rose)
Pictorial designs (4): Bird, Tubes, Microchip, Triangles
References: 24, each with its own code (4100516 Grey to 4100539 T Blue)
Appearance: inspired by handmade cement tiles; the manufacturer declares a semi-industrial process with variations in flatness and wedging and small irregularities on the glazed surface, plus a slight tone variation between grounds and decors
Recommended grout: Mapei 110 Manhattan for every colour
Joint: 3/4 mm recommended; the manufacturer states that the same caliper between references is not always guaranteed
Water absorption: 0.3% (ISO 10545/3, required ≤0.5%)
Breaking strength: 46 N/mm² (ISO 10545/4, required ≥35)
Stain resistance: class 5 (ISO 10545/14, required ≥class 3)
Frost, thermal shock, chemicals: resistant, no visible alteration (ISO 10545/12, /9, /13)
Slip resistance: R10 (DIN EN 16165)
Abrasion: PEI IV — class IV (ASTM C1027)
Dynamic coefficient of friction: DCOF 0.50 (required >0.42)
Aesthetic class: V1 (ANSI A137.1)
Packing: 22 pieces per box, 0.50 m², 10.90 kg; 125 boxes per pallet, 62.50 m², 1,362.50 kg
Declared sources: the Bauhaus, Pierre Chareau and the Maison de Verre, the beat generation, cyber style, handmade cement tiles
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The design is printed at high definition onto the glazed porcelain body, which is why a 15 cm module carries fine lines without them breaking up. The body underneath belongs to the BIaGL group: it is porcelain, not a printed wall tile.
1,362.50 kg for 62.50 m², made up of 125 boxes. Each box is 10.90 kg for 0.50 m² and 22 pieces, so a small washroom is usually a matter of a few boxes rather than a pallet.
Usually not, and the manufacturer's own photographs show why: a ground on the floor with a decor on the wall, or five references mixed across one floor. Deciding the ratio on the drawing is what keeps a 15 cm module from becoming noise.
3 to 4 mm. 41zero42 recommends it as suitable for a natural product and states that the same caliper between references is not always guaranteed, so the joint absorbs the difference instead of the cut line.
In Italy, by 41zero42 in Fiorano Modenese, in the province of Modena. The company takes its name from the postcode of the town, 41042, and La Mercanti imports the collection from there for Indian projects.
Five checks between the truck and the first box opened, so that a mixed order of grounds and decors arrives complete.
A Futura order is several references, not one: check the number of boxes per code, because 22 pieces of the wrong decor are hard to notice later.
A full pallet is 1,362.50 kg and 125 boxes; if the delivery note says fewer boxes, the missing ones are usually a single reference, and it is better found at the gate.
Look at the tone of grounds and decors together: the manufacturer declares a slight variation between them, and seeing it now avoids a call during laying.
Keep them off the floor and away from site traffic; a 10 mm tile is robust, but edges chip when boxes are stacked against a wall.
Photograph the pallet and write the reservation on the transport document; La Mercanti handles the claim with the manufacturer from there.
