Vendors: Rako

LASSELSBERGER s.r.o. is the largest manufacturer of ceramic floor and wall tiles in the Czech Republic and one of the leading European manufacturers of facing materials. LASSELSBERGER s.r.o. maintains and develops the tradition of the Czech trade mark RAKO with a complete offer of home ceramics. The company provides its products for the system solutions of commercial and heavy-duty non-commercial facilities under the trade mark LB OBJECT.

The trade mark RAKO, which is currently celebrating the 125th anniversary of its establishment, presents complete sets of wall and floor tiles as well as a wide range of decorative accessories for bathrooms, kitchens and floors in housing interiors. As regards lifestyle, it is focused on end users with high demands on the design and utility value of the materials being offered. RAKO ceramics production was started in Rakovník in 1883. The production range was extended gradually from refractory bricks and fair-faced floor tiles up to glazed, variously decorated floor tiles, porous tiles, mosaic tiles, tiled stoves, and special relief tiles used to face buildings and facades.

For system solution of buildings, LASSELSBERGER produces ceramic tiles under the trade mark LB OBJECT. The mark covers matching systems of floor and wall tiles intended especially for designing and investment purposes. In the products of these trade marks, the greatest emphasis is put on variability, functionality, excellent properties and high utility value.

The RAKO logo shows the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II who was among the founders of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. The ceramic pot the ruler holds in his hand in one of the scenes of that period was called RAKO and it became the symbol of the thousand-year tradition of ceramics. The King’s figure was placed on an octagonal tile and completed with the inscription RAKO above his head. The logo is recorded as being used for the first time in the year 1935.