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Posts tagged “tile, stone & countertops”

BKLYN Designs: Pb-R Surface by Wüd Furniture Design

There's been a lot of focus on counter tops lately, as designers try to guess what will follow granite as the "must have" material. ...

AT DC: Community Forklift - Salvage and Donations

This is from DC finalist, Caroline. Comment away! >> Enter Slideshow Just across the DC line, right off route 1 is a great warehouse of salvaged and donated materials. Community Forklift is a perf...

Blogging The Modern Estate: Button Wall at Peacock and Beale

The Modern Estate magazine is hardly a beacon of small living. But the current issue, if you can get your hands on it, has an inspiring surface treatment featured in it. It's a wall in the Connecticu...

Woodland Collection by Marlborough Tiles

We love everything about these tiles. The soft ivory color. The crackle finish. And best of all, the botanical drawing-inspired prints on them. They're from the Woodland Collection of Marlborough Ti...

Claudio Colucci's Mosaic Tile Patterns

We're blown away by Claudio Colucci's mosaic tile patterns for Inax Co.. Look at how detailed these designs are and how the tiles' colors are used to depict light (especially that one up top,)... ...

Imports From Marrakesh

Marrakesh express... Aware of the growing hipness and attractiveness of the Chelsea Market, we were recently tipped off to yet another resident: Imports of Marrakesh, a wholesale and retail operation...

Olde Good Things

Just what it says. We were tipped off to Olde Good Things by a few readers who recommended it for its salvaged hardwood flooring and the fact that they have "everything." We were cautioned, however,...

ModWalls Custom Blender

Cool! AT:LA and AT:SF have posted about Mosaic Tile Market but we think their division ModWalls deserves a second look especially their new custom color blender. We created the pattern above to re...

Hakatai Glass Mosiac Tiles

Beautiful glass. Hakatai is not exclusive to the trade, but they are largely unknown to the typical retail customer. We came across Hakatai Tile when searching online for glass tile two years ago ...

Cancos Tile

Stone, glass, marble, ceramic... Last year a client of ours researched how much it would cost to replace one marble window sill. He looked at shops in NYC and then stopped into Cancos Tile in the Ham...

Emery & Cie

We heard about Emery & Cie from Jess, who showed off her Parisian Perch for us a few weeks back, but we had no idea how deep this river ran. Today Jeannie told us how much she loved the color on the...

Quality Tile

We have heard that Quality Tile is THE place to purchase tile at a steep discount. It's not only cheaper than the boutiques on 5th avenue, it's also cheaper than Home Depot. They'll quote prices on t...

Waterworks

If you are looking for something real nice for the bathroom, OR if you just want to browse and dream, a trip to Waterworks is advised. Originally a SoHo fixture, Waterworks set itself apart years ag...

Bella Tile

Are you looking to tile a bathroom or kitchen and need someone to do it? Bella Tile is a small shop with a good selection and often helpful service, which offers a fine alternative to the high-end til...

Stone Source

A number of people have recommended Stone Source to us lately. Built primarily as an online resource, Stone Source now has showrooms popping up all over the country which give you a really nice oppor...

Habitus Architectural Finishes

This post used to be titled Ex Inc, but they (as we understand it) turned into Habitus and now carry the same stock up on 108th street. Habitus is your resource for all stone, cement, ceramic, le...

Green River Stone Company

If you are looking for a unique way to finish off your kitchen backsplash or simply want to get your guests talking, Green River Stone Company sells "fossil and stone products" that carry the ghostly ...

Artistic Tile: Luxury Stone and Tile

There are a few big luxury tile stores in town, and Artistic Tile is one of them. With its cheesy ad campaigns and general lack of style, it's not our favorite. So tell us we're wrong. Founded in 198...

American Rag

Good vibe. American Rag was on our list and, boy was this a nice find. See Slideshow Combining the eclectic optimism of California with colorful, vintage European design, you could browse this sto...

Ann Sacks Tile & Stone

Prettier. We are in the process of looking for tile to redo our cracked kitchen floor. We want something plain, natural looking and with a warm coloring. We have been to Cancos, Artistic Tile, ...

Laboratory Tops

Back to school. Gita from Thread Collective showed us a job they did in Brooklyn, where all the kitchen counters were a dark, soft black. Slate? We asked. No, Labtops. Oh, you mean like Fireslate ...

Metro Refinishing

Like caps for your teeth... It costs a lot of money to buy a new tub or to have it re-enameled when it has gone scratched or worn around the drain. Re-glazing is the New York answer. While we have...

Bisazza Mosiac Tile Co.

Tile, tile, tile. A few weeks back we featured a small company that makes glass tiles for the NYC subways system, and a reader wrote in that the best mosiac tiles came from Bisazza. So, we checked t...

Marston & Langinger: English Countryside Moves to NYC

Green acres is the place to be. Marston & Langinger opens their SoHo store today, and it should make for some delicious browsing, since it may be hard to take home a new greenhouse in a bag. The Eng...

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