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Armstrong Flooring wins three 2019 Good Design awards

Floor Covering News

Armstrong Flooring has received Good Design awards for Rigid Core Vantage, Migrations and Striations BBT, and Alterna engineered tile. Good Design covers new consumer products, graphics and packaging designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. Lancaster, Pa.—Armstrong

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ICG Italia celebrates Women’s History Month

Floor Covering News

The women-led ICG Italia, brand of Iris Ceramica Group, developed this program as part of an important Women’s History Month initiative to honor women’s leadership roles in the architecture and design community. Michelle Hatton SOM, Associate Principal Originally from South Africa, Hatton started her career in Houston with Gensler.

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

While children everywhere are going back to school, let’s go back to basics and learn about ceramic tile through a few of Architectural Ceramic’s collections: Basics, London, and City Hall. Architectural Ceramics has several handmade ceramic tile options, from vendors like Sonoma Tilemakers or Encore Ceramics. ″ x 9.5″

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Avente Tile Talk: Great Floor Designs with Rustic Cement Tile Pavers

Tile Talk

Great Floor Designs with Rustic Cement Tile Pavers. These pavers have the rich look of classic clay bisque tiles that have been used in Spain, the Mediterranean, and northern Africa for centuries. Tile Tip Small tiles are the optimal choice for shower floors because they: Follow the contour slope to the drain. floor tile.

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Installation Equation: Alhambra Outside Seattle

Granada Tile

The materials and the palette are by and large simple and neutral—pale walls and blond wood, for the most part, in a house that suggests Craftsman architecture. It’s a great, complex pattern that’s reminiscent of classic mosaic tile designs found in Spain and North Africa—with a palette of vivid shades to match.

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Avente Tile Talk: Step Up to Spanish Tile | September 2012

Tile Talk

Over time, and with the spread of Islam, the art made its way through to Northern Africa, and to what is now known as Spain, Italy, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The 1" dots, used as an accent to a floor inset, are a fitting complement to a backsplash consisting of 6"x6" tiles of the same design. floor tile.

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Avente Tile Talk: New! Arabesque Cement Tile Spanish Pavers

Tile Talk

The geometrically inclined Arabesque pattern, part of our cement tile collection, pays homage the rich look of classic clay bisque tiles that have been used in Spain, the Mediterranean, and northern Africa for centuries. are into, such as travel, architecture, design, nature, and so on. floor tile. MYD | architecture + design.

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