Minoli - The Surface Within

General information

Minoli was founded in the 1940’s by Luigi Minoli, working with Marble and Terrazzo initially in London where the Minoli family was based and then moving to Oxford. Minoli opened a purpose built factory facility in the very early 1960’s in Cowley Oxford. This factory produced terrazzo tiles and was the operational base for the company’s installation division then thriving, working on colleges, car showrooms, hospitals and domestic projects. In the early 1960’s Luigi’s son Peter came to realise the potential not only for the Terrazzo tiles made on site but also for Mosaics and “normal” tiles. Whilst maintaining the Terrazzo business at its core, Peter Minoli worked to develop a business wholesaling tiles to local merchants, often delivering in the evenings, or whilst working with Terrazzo in the area. Peter’s vision for tiles proved to be well founded and the tile side of the business very quickly took over completely from the Terrazzo production. Using contacts in Europe, predominately Italy, Peter built up a strong supply network from the newly emerging tile manufacturing companies, and many of the world’s leading tile manufacturers can trace Minoli to being virtually their first export client. Some of these relationships remain in place to this day. By the time Peter’s son, Jonathon was born in 1968, the company was very nearly 100% tile, with a fast growing network of clients including tile studios, kitchen and bathroom showrooms, house builders & developers and car...