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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Porcelain tile from AC’s Himalaya Collection , made to look like polished or matte marble. Stains like red wine on a marble surface are the enemy.

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Ceramics of Italy names 2020 fall-winter trends

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Kristin Coleman, senior VP, Novitá PR, the organization that represents Ceramics of Italy in North America, said despite the cancellation of Cersaie and other design tradeshows around the world, Italian manufacturers continue to invent new designs and invest in technologies to keep expanding the versatility and value proposition of ceramics.

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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Grout is used to allow for this expansion and contraction. Italy: Most people likely think of marble before ceramic tile when they hear the name Italy. The Colosseum was once clad in white marble before Emperors repurposed it for their own palaces and monuments. North America: In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

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Big And Beautiful – Gauged Porcelain Slabs

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Also known as large panel porcelain slabs or large format porcelain slabs, gauged porcelain is loved for its beauty, durability, easy maintenance, and most of all its lack of grout joints and continuous pattern throughout the tile. Pictured: Fiandre Moon Maximum.

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Big And Beautiful – Gauged Porcelain Slabs

Conestoga Tile

Also known as large panel porcelain slabs or large format porcelain slabs, gauged porcelain is loved for its beauty, durability, easy maintenance, and most of all its lack of grout joints and continuous pattern throughout the tile. Pictured: Fiandre Moon Maximum.

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Ceramic: Category reaps benefits of booming housing market

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by volume vs. 2020, according to the Tile Council of North America (TCNA). Larger format tile continues to gain market share as it provides a more seamless installation with less visible grout lines. Emser’s L’Amour is a mosaic tile collection that pairs the look of natural marble with an eco-conscious, recycled glass construction.

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Take It Outside: Outdoor AC Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

Throughout historic cities in Europe, their streets are paved in cobblestones, the statues are carved in marble, and their monuments are clad in limestone. Or, go for a vein-cut marble instead of a slate with an uneven cleft. The graphic backsplash comes from our vendor, Sabine Hill , who specializes in handpainted cement tile.

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