Rubber Used for Walling in Iconic Buildings from Dalsouple

Over the last 5 years Dalsouple rubber flooring has been used creatively by interiors designers and architects in Australia for creative colourful walling features. The thin natural rubber can be coved over a tight radius, bent over banisters, around corners, and over bull nose bench tops.

Dalsouple makes their rubber tiles in 80 standards colours and over 30 textures so the combinations are endless. Some interesting textures are diamonds, bubbles, fish scales, squares, stripes and circles.

One of the first innovative architects to use Dalsouple as walling was Peter Maddison of Grand Designs Australia Fame. He used 3 colours as vertical stripes up the walls of the international Terminal 2 News bar at Melbourne Airrport. It's been a great product that copes with knocks from luggage, shoes, so that 5 years later it's still as good as new.

The walls at RMIT, Swanston Academic Building (SAB) in a study area have been painted in patchwork pattern. The Dalsouple rubber tiles were chosen for the bottom couple of metres so that they'll take knocks from students over the years without damage to the walls.

List of Dalsouple walling installations:

1/ Melbourne Grammar School gym walls, Blanc Dakota
2/ Melbourne Grammar School, Nigel Peck Centre for Learning and Leadership. Banister, Jaune Pollen
3/ RMIT SAB building, 4 colours
4/ Nuts About Candy, Bankstown Sydney, Hortensia and Gardenia stripes on walls and ceilings
5/ St. Mary's Primary School, Greensborough, 340mm tiles as trees
6/ 500 Bourke St, Melbourne, NAB Bank, Pamplemousse
7/ International Grammar School, Sydney, Vert Pomme
8/ QBI, Pierre de Tuffeaux
9/ MCG National Sports Museum, Blue Paon, Fuchsia, Pantone yellow
10/ UTAS Medical Science Building, Vert Pomme, Anis, Blanc Dakota in Granita and Delta
11/ Princess Margaret Hospital, Vert Pomme, Jaune Citron
12/ Annie Smithers Bistrot, Kynton, up the walls of a bar Ramp (fishscale) texture, Gris Lyon
12/ Baroque Bistro, The Rocks, Sydney, on the bar, Noir, Martele
13/ Café Vue, Melbourne International Airport, Delta, Blanc Daktoa
14/ University of Canberra, splashbacks, Blue Paon, Citron Vert
15/ Merchant Building, Melbourne, used as a seat, Ibiscus
16/ National Museum of Australia, Canberra, used as plinths in the Landmarks display area