People might think of quartz in terms of kitchen or bathroom counters. But quartz is also slabbed out in massive sizes for floors, especially in commercial structures like shopping malls. No doubt you have walked on quartz countertop material and not even known it.
Quartz has come full circle because the very first material that inventor Marcello Toncelli developed was hand-poured mini slabs of about 12 by 20 inches, cut down and used for floor tiles. Countertop applications did not come until years later. Indeed, even in the mid-1970s, slabs only measured about 50 inches long—hardly a size one could call countertop-worthy.