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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. Let’s learn a bit about how ceramic tile is classified. The principles used to create ceramic tile are basic.

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Chinese Tariffs and their Effect on the Tile Industry

Architectural Ceramics

Retailers and product-based companies in many consumer categories are affected by the new tariffs and countervailing charges implemented on goods from China. Keep in mind most importers, like Architectural Ceramics, imported excess stock to get through this transition. for unglazed ceramic 10% for unglazed porcelain 8.5%

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Armstrong Flooring wins three 2019 Good Design awards

Floor Covering News

It recognizes the latest, most advanced products and designs for their innovation and invention. Good Design covers new consumer products, graphics and packaging designed and manufactured in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America. Winning products are featured on the Good Design website.

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The 31 Best Residential Design Blogs Featuring Awesome Cement Tile (A Definitive List For Encaustic Tile Enthusiasts)

Granada Tile

As I’m sure you know, in the last few years, cement tiles have grown in popularity not only for their beauty but also for the durability and easy care that’s long made them a popular decorative element in the piazzas, public buildings and cafes of Europe, South American, North Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

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Decorator On Demand: Suzanis, Suzanis, SUZANIS!

Decorator on Demand

They are large embroidered textiles originally from Central Asia. I am Marie Cole, an interior designer who launched an online decorating service for people who are do it yourselfers and need some design help. Decorator On Demand on. VW Home Product Spotlight. Come Right In: 2014 San Francisco Decorator Showcase.

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Puerto Rican Cement Tile

Cement Style

The technique for making decorative cement tiles was perfected in Europe in the 19th century and quickly spread to Spanish and French colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. As we are always telling our callers, the tiles are not fired or glazed like ceramic tile.

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Stats 2021: Laminate picks up right where it left off in 2020

Floor Covering News

Volume-wise, the category grew at a slower rate (3.1%) compared to sales, reflecting higher prices for resins, melamine and fiberboard materials—some of the primary ingredients that go into the production of laminate flooring. That puts the category behind resilient (53.6%), ceramic (19.6%) and hardwood (17%) with respect to dollars.

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