People have been surfacing floors and walls in tile for hundreds of years; it’s one of our oldest materials. But the industry keeps reinventing the product. Digital printing and fabricating advances ...

People have been surfacing floors and walls in tile for hundreds of years; it’s one of our oldest materials. But the industry keeps reinventing the product. Digital printing and fabricating advances ...

In 2026, floor design is shifting from minimalist uniformity to richly patterned, artisanal surfaces, with handmade cement tiles at the forefront. Designers and homeowners are embracing materials ...

In the world of tile patterns, there's always been super-uniform (e.g. stacked subway tile) and super-custom (e.g. a black-and-white line drawing on the floor), and not much else in between. But we're ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to tile a bathroom floor, square tiles are the simplest option—they fit together without any gaps in a grid pattern that can ...

Tilemakers continue to innovate on texture and color, incorporating cutoffs—as is the case with Salvatori’s Patchwork—using natural volcanic stone like Zia Tile, or sticking to the techniques of yore, ...