The myriad styles and materials used for tile can make a space, not just bathrooms and kitchens, shine in unexpected ways.

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 ...

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When it comes to creating interiors that truly reflect your personality and style, the difference lies in the details. And when we talk about details, very few things can transform a space as ...

Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special ...

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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 ...