10 Badass Tile Shapes You Didn’t Know Existed

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Nancy Mitchell
Nancy Mitchell
As a former Senior Writer at Apartment Therapy, Nancy split her time among looking at beautiful pictures, writing about design, and photographing stylish apartments in and around NYC.
updated Jul 16, 2020
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(Image credit: M Walter Design)

A lot of little girls go through a horse phase. I am currently in a tile phase. Right now I spend so much time thinking about and looking at tiles that I could write a whole different blog and call it Tile Therapy. (You think I’m kidding.) On my radar right now: tiles in unusual, intriguing new shapes. Sure, you’re all familiar with subway tile and square tile and penny tile and hex tile and maybe even fish scale tile, but there’s so much more out there. So much. Here are ten badass tile shapes you probably didn’t know about.

(Image credit: Fireclay Tile)

Above: Fireclay Tile’s Star & Cross pattern graces an accent wall.

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Top left: Tabarka Studio’s Picket tile, as seen in a kitchen from Rue Mag.

Top right: Moroccan Circles by Mercury Mosaics

Bottom left: Tunisian tiles by Tabarka Studio

Bottom right: Midpoint, a subtle twist on traditional subway tile by Mission Stone & Tile.

(Image credit: M Walter Design)

Fireclay Tile also makes a picket tile, but theirs has the intriguing property of being the same dimension on every side, which means it can be arranged in this ‘braid pattern as well as the more traditional one pictured above. Image from M. Walters Design, via Fireclay Tile’s Instagram. Also, lead image above.

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Top left: Cravat by Fireclay Tile

Top right: Chain Homme by Fireclay Tile

Bottom left: Gotham Field Tile in Swiss Cross by Ann Sacks

Bottom right: Little Diamond by Heath Ceramics