Dezeen Showroom: Italian company Ceramiche Refin worked with artist Oliver Laric on large-scale porcelain stoneware wall coverings that change appearance depending on viewing angle.

The Metamorphoses tile grew out of a project that Laric and Ceramiche Refin presented at Milan design week 2025, involving 19 sculptures that reflected on the concept of transformation.

Metamorphoses is a porcelain stoneware wall covering with a lenticular surface

Now, the artist and company have evolved the experiment into a porcelain stoneware tile collection, translating the textures and themes from the installation into a ceramic surface with a lenticular three-dimensional structure.

Metamorphoses' linear relief employs two different geometries and two different textures – one light and smooth, the other grainy and burnished – to create a surface that changes in appearance depending on where it is viewed from.

The tile is available in three metallic finishes

Light and reflection also add to the visual variation,…