From Barcelona to New York City: Neolith presents Enigma restaurant exhibition with the world-renowned architect Pau Llimona.

Mystery Set in Stone event highlighted the design behind this Michelin-rated experience restaurant, a collaboration of Chef Albert Adrià, Pau Llimona, Pritzker Prize winning RCR Arquitectes, and Neolith.

Neolith, hosted more than 100 architects and designers on June 20th to discover Architect Pau Llimona’s design of the ambitious and ground-breaking Enigma restaurant project in Barcelona. Held at the Manhattan showroom of Neolith distribution partner HG Stones, the Mystery Set in Stone event provided an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how Llimona and Pritzker Prize winning RCR Arquitectes transformed the 7,534-square-foot space into a dreamy atmosphere envisioned by Chef Albert Adrià.

Opened in 2017, the Michelin-rated Enigma restaurant is the brainchild of Adrià. The acclaimed Catalan chef wanted to captivate guests in an immersive environment, with a menu influenced by the surroundings. In order to make that a reality, Adrià commissioned RCR Arquitectes/Pau Llimona to create the design, giving life to a multidisciplinary space with seven distinct rooms and seven different gastronomic experiences through a 40-course tasting menu. RCR drew their design idea in watercolors on paper and teamed up with Neolith to create an exact replica of the green and blue hues onto large format sintered stone slabs—to be applied to the floors, walls, bathrooms, kitchen worktops, cabinetry and air extraction systems.

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Once more, Neolith has again received the prestigious Muuuz International Award 2018 for the recently introduced Krater model, a dark, swirling-patterned slab in appreciation to natural soapstone.

Launched earlier this year, the Krater was created in response to the popularity of Neolith ’s Nero Marquina (which received a Muuuz International Award in 2017) and a growing design trend for darker shades and tones in the kitchen and bathroom settings.

Krater perfectly showcases the expertise of Neolith’s research and development team. The surface is characterised by a beautifully swirling, deep grey grain, which has been captured using the very latest technology to create an organic, continuous pattern, true to the look of the natural stone.

The Muuuz International Awards communicates with 25,000 architects, interior architects, decorators and layout professionals to select the most innovative products. With more than 2,200 new products over 7 categories, Krater proved to be a favourite in the ‘Materials’ category.

The awards will be presented to the winners at a ceremony in Paris on the 20th June at the InterContinental Paris le Grand.

For its innovation and sustainability, NEOLITH + PURET treatment for self-cleaning and sustainable facades, stands with the "Gold Medal" of the prestigious Edison Awards, held in Ballroom of the Capitale in New York City a few days earlier.

The NEOLITH® + PURETi treatment offers architects and designers a sustainable surface treatment for residential and commercial building façades.

During the last months, the aforementioned treatment has been specified to cover the exterior cladding for 3 new residential towers under construction in New York city and the new Bay Area home of the Golden State Warriors.