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momentum over the past four to five years. It has brought people together and helped make us a stronger, more distinctive and more interesting company.”
Sustainability and storytelling
With a renewed focus on design, community and collaboration firmly embedded within the business, Solus then looked to identify products that embodied those same values. It was a search for innovation and differentiation that would lead to an unexpected opportunity in terrazzo, perfectly aligned with the company’ s wider sustainability ambitions. This led to the creation of one of Solus’ most distinctive products: Spolia.
“ Spolia emerged through conversations between our sales team, Quiligotti, Andrews Tiles and colleagues across Solus,” Ian explains.“ We were looking for a product that could give us genuine differentiation while offering our clients something more flexible, expressive and meaningful.
“ Quiligotti had invested in a new plant that enabled terrazzo to be made in a more adaptable way, using a broad range of aggregates to create bespoke materials. We recognised that this was exactly the kind of opportunity that aligned with the direction Solus was taking.
“ Drawing on conversations with the clients we already supplied, and the creative input of our teams and partners, Spolia developed as a platform for more project-specific material stories. It was rooted in sustainability, but also in the idea that materials can carry memory, identity and a real connection to place.”
One of the most notable early examples was Greycoat’ s Finsbury Dials project, where Solus worked with the wider project team to help recover approximately 80 to 90 tonnes of pink granite from the original 86