Cambria and Gensler Debut New Quartz Surfacing Collaboration
The Coordinates Collection by Cambria™, Gensler Product Design Consultant, is inspired by the needs of the more than 6,000 design professionals in the Gensler family who service more than 4,000 clients worldwide each year
Cambria, the nation’s leading American-made, family-owned producer of natural quartz surfaces, and world-renowned integrated architecture, design, planning, and consulting firm Gensler launched The Coordinates Collection by Cambria this summer.
The collection consists of 14 high-performing quartz designs fit for both commercial and residential applications all designed to coordinate effortlessly together and created around the NCS – Natural Colour System®©, which NCS®© describes on its website as a scientifically based color system that allows for accurate cross-industrial color communication for designers, manufacturers, retailers, and customers. This color system is a global standard for definition, quality assurance, and communication of color. (NCS – Natural Colour System®© property of and used on license from NCS Colour AB, Stockholm 2019. References to NCS®© are used with permission from NCS Colour AB.)
“We are thrilled to work with the Gensler team on this first-of-its-kind product and are honored they chose Cambria as a surface partner for this collaboration,” said Cambria EVP of Product Development Summer Kath. “What we built together truly reflects the talent that Gensler cultivates, and we cannot wait to meaningfully expand our footprint within the architecture and design communities.”
The result of a two-year design, research, and development process, the quintessentially classic designs were created to work together, or on their own, and coordinate in many different ways including tone and texture. The tones match and coordinate, since they are all rooted in the NCS®©.
The collection draws from six different NCS®© colors which represent two shades of white; three shades of light, medium, and dark charcoal gray; and one shade of black. The NCS®© is used widely by specifiers and the A&D community enabling the colors to coordinate with other specified building materials making it easy to work The Coordinates Collection into design projects. The collection textures range from smooth and rugged concrete looks, to terrazzo-inspired designs, to designs with organic veining. All designs will be available in Cambria’s revolutionary Cambria Matte™ finish, which features a smooth, silky touch and no reflectivity, as well as in Cambria’s high gloss finish. Cambria Matte offers an alternative finish style, and highly desirable design aesthetic, to the A&D community. The Coordinates Collection will be available in a variety of edge profiles in 1cm, 2cm, and 3cm thicknesses and jumbo slabs (132″ x 65.5″). All designs will also be available as wall and floor tiles in the following sizes (inches): 12×12, 12×24, 18×36, 24×24, 24×48, and 48×48 in 1cm thickness.
For both Cambria and Gensler, protecting the environment and working with sustainably sourced products is of the utmost importance. Cambria strives to use industry-certified sustainable best practices and product transparency in manufacturing its product to leave the smallest environmental footprint possible. Cambria is committed to sustainability and offers products with recycled content comprised of reused Cambria natural quartz slabs, pigments, and binders. The Coordinates Collection further reflects Cambria’s commitment to sustainability: Big Sur Mist™ and Sanibel Shoreline™ designs include pre-consumer recycled content as certified by SCS Global Services.
Known for its palette of 180+ industry-leading, iconic designs, Cambria worked hand in hand with the Gensler team to create a collection just as beautiful as it is functional with designs that fit seamlessly into a myriad of heavily trafficked environments and are 100% nonabsorbent to prohibit liquid and bacteria from penetrating the surface, scratch and stain resistant, maintenance free from sealing or reconditioning, and backed by a transferable Full Lifetime Warranty.
“While The Coordinates Collection was imagined to meet the demands of contract specifiers, we believe these designs will appeal to the broader A&D community working in every sector looking for access to a thoughtfully designed, safe, durable, maintenance-free product,” said MacKenzie Weldon, Vice President of Corporate Partnerships for Cambria. “The overall aesthetic is current, architectural, and modern.”
Descriptions of The Coordinates Collection designs are below. All designs are named after U.S. locations and their identifying characteristics:
Salt Lake™
A neutral ivory backdrop is spread with innumerous faint warm dots overlaid with freeform and geometric shapes. The design takes its name from Salt Lake City and the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere.
NCS S 1000-N
Minnesota Snow™
A collection of minute dots and larger flakes on a wintery white background makes Minnesota Snow light in color with substantial appeal.
NCS S 1000-N
NCS S 500-N
Foggy City™
Inspired by the famous Golden Gate city, this design offers a soft, cloudy white base complemented by harmonious scatterings of faint white and translucent dots amidst overcast islands and peninsulas.
NCS S 1000-N
NCS S 500-N
Big Sur Mist™
Slightly mysterious like the rocks cloaked in fog off the southern coast of California, this compelling design is made from recycled Cambria and features an archipelago of large and small dove-gray shapes parted by neutral channels and winding streams.
NCS S 4000-N
White Plains™
Named for the marshy white plains that now host the bustling New York metropolis of the same name, White Plains has a creamy white background with various sized contours of gray spots floating throughout.
NCS S 1000-N
NCS S 6000-N
Sanibel Shoreline™
Like wet sand on a shell-dotted shoreline, this intriguing design is made from recycled Cambria and features a pearl-gray base with close-knit sprinklings of light and warm specks, intermittent black dots, and a mingling of pale white silhouettes.
NCS S 4000-N
Vail Village™
Reminiscent of dark chalet roofs silhouetted against a Rocky Mountain snowfall, Vail Village is a classic blend of black and white with a myriad of gray specks that gently soften the contrast. NCS S 500-N
NCS S 9000-N
Stone Mountain™
A medium-gray stage is set with countless multitudes of gray dots accented with occasional white and gray abstracts that call to mind the imposing monolith of the same name in the great state of Georgia.
NCS S 4000-N
Chicago Tower™
Gatherings of white specks intermixed with particles of black and medium gray rest on an industrial-gray backdrop that takes its inspiration from the soaring skyscrapers of the Windy City.
NCS S 6000-N
Seattle Rain™
A quiet medium-gray foundation reminiscent of a misty Seattle afternoon hosts a dense spray of minute gray pinpoints and a dappling of black and gray daubs.
NCS S 6000-N
Montana Midnight™
A vast charcoal-gray palette is sprinkled with a profusion of tiny black dots and ink spots that hover like the dark skies in a moonless Montana night.
NCS S 8000-N
NCS S 9000-N
Mammoth Cave™
Inspired by the dark expanses of the immense caverns in this American landmark, Mammoth Cave is laid with a dramatic, raven-black groundwork, crisscrossed with white streams, clusters, and veins that create fine etchings in a multitude of sizes and shapes.
NCS S 1000-N
NCS S 9000-N
Black Rock™
Charcoal veins form abstract shapes on a dense black background in this design named for Black Rock, Arkansas.
NCS S 9000-N
NCS S 8000-N
Kentucky Coal™
As dark as the mines of Appalachia, Kentucky Coal features a smooth and strong iron-gray platform with a mosaic of darker gray shapes.
NCS S 8000-N
NCS S 9000-N
The Coordinates Collection will be available nationwide through top kitchen & bath dealers, builders, remodelers, and fabricators. High-res imagery is available for download here. For more information on Cambria, please visit CambriaUSA.com.
About Cambria
Now in its 20th year, Cambria is the leading producer of American-made natural quartz surfaces and is a family-owned company. Cambria’s innovative natural quartz designs are stain resistant, nonabsorbent, strong, safe, maintenance free, and easy to care for, and they come with a transferable Full Lifetime Warranty. Cambria is sold through an exclusive network of premium, independent specialty retail and trade partners that can be identified at CambriaUSA.com. #MyCambria
About Gensler
Gensler is a global architecture, design, and planning firm with 50 locations and more than 6,000 professionals networked across Asia, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, and the Americas. Founded in 1965, the firm serves more than 3,500 active clients in virtually every industry. Gensler designers strive to make the places people live, work, and play more inspiring, more resilient, and more impactful.
