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Curve Line Stone Panel
Short arcs, laid in rows and offset like roof tiles. Not a wave and not a flute — more like the mark a thumb makes dragging through soft plaster, repeated a few thousand times.
Technical data sheet, MBQXS (PDF, 0.9 MB)·Colour card, 106 surfaces in four series (PDF, 10.4 MB)
Each stroke is about 40 mm long and 8 wide, curved, and set at a slight angle to its neighbour so the rows interlock. Because the strokes are short, the pattern has no direction: it works horizontally, vertically, and without any setting out at all, which is rare in this range.
Seven millimetres and 7.5 kg. The relief is shallow, around 2 mm, so it is a bathroom and bedroom product rather than a lobby one. It also means the sheets butt together without any pattern matching, which cuts the waste on a small job to almost nothing. Bought as flexible stone veneer for curved reception desks and radiused returns, usually in the same order as the flat sheets.
No direction, no waste
Because every stroke is short and angled, there is no line to continue across a joint. That is worth money: on a fluted wall you lose 10 to 15 per cent matching the pattern at the joints, and on this you lose the saw kerf. The texture shot shows why — pick any two adjacent strokes and they are at different angles.
Bathroom, then bedroom
The bathroom is the cream, floor to ceiling, with a mirror cut in and no trim. The bedroom is the same sheet behind a bed, painted joinery either side, and the arcs pick up the wall lights in a way a flat wall would not.
Installed, curve line stone
Good for
- Bathrooms and shower walls, sealed at the edges
- Bedroom feature walls behind a bed
- Small rooms, where a directional pattern would look busy
- Anywhere the waste needs to be low, because there is no pattern to match
Not for
- Large commercial walls; the relief is too shallow to read at ten metres
- Exterior use
- Anywhere a strong directional texture is the brief
Cream and a warm grey
Two in stock, the cream in the shot and a warm grey, plus a chalk on request. The cream is the one to use where the light is warm; the grey holds up better under a cool LED, where cream goes slightly green.
Specification
Everything below applies to the Curve Line Stone as supplied. The PDF above is the same sheet we send out with a quote; ask for a printed copy and it travels with the sample.
| Sheet size | 1200 × 3000 mm |
|---|---|
| Thickness | 7 mm ± 1 mm |
| Weight | 7.5 kg/m² ± 0.5 |
| Item code | MBQXS |
| Substrate | Mineral powder, sand and fibreglass, pressed in a steel mould |
| Fire | EN 13501-1 A2-s1,d0, on a non-combustible substrate |
| Fixing | Polymer adhesive, or mechanical fixings on a ventilated frame |
| MOQ | Stocked colours ship from stock, no minimum |
| Lead time | 3–5 days for stock, 20–25 days for production |
Fitting it
Four steps, and the third one is the one that goes wrong.
Questions we get asked
Is the pattern directional?
No. It can be hung either way up and the sheets can be rotated without a visible change, which is unusual for a textured sheet.
How deep are the arcs?
About 2 mm. Enough to catch a wall light, not enough to hold water or dust.
Can it be used in a shower?
On the walls, yes, with the cut edges sealed and a tanked substrate. Not on the tray.
What is the waste factor?
Five per cent. There is no pattern to match, so the only loss is the cuts.
Sample of Curve Line Stone
A4 offcut, posted from Ningbo, free. Ask for the colour card too — it covers all thirty-seven surfaces in the series.
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