While small patterns can make a huge impact on your space, tiny tiles are difficult to install. To get around this downside, discover the micro-patterns trend.

Discover how to build and install a stunning kitchen table topped with sleek ceramic tiles in this detailed step-by-step ...

Just in time for spring, the botanical trend is abloom in the world of interior design—and nowhere more beautifully than in the realm of decorative tile. “Things are shifting toward more organic ...

An infinite two-dimensional plane covered with Penrose tiles, like a grid of qubits, can be described using the mathematical framework of quantum physics: The quantum states are specific tilings ...

Through its research of freeform shells, tiling patterns, building sequences, and formwork, the group hopes to construct increasingly radical forms without sacrificing efficiency.

That one has finally been found, “it’s huge.” Taylor-Socolar tiles are the closest mathematicians had come previously to an “einstein,” a single tile that forms a pattern that never repeats.

A shape (highlighted in green) that can endlessly tile an area without making a repeating pattern has been discovered. Credit: D. Smith et al./arXiv After 60 years of searching, mathematicians ...

Girih pattern from the Seljuk Mama Hatun Mausoleum in Tercan, Turkey (about AD 1200), with girih-tile reconstruction overlaid at bottom Girih strapwork pattern on an interior archway in the Sultan ...