While the encaustic looks were still present around the show floor, geometrics got more contemporary updates with new shapes, sizes, patterns and finishes. Retro in these offerings evoke ...

If you break, say, a solid blue tile in half, it will be blue on the inside. Ordinary tile, by contrast, has all its color and pattern on the surface — in the glaze. Encaustic tile can be made of ...

In our kitchen countertop tests, ceramic and porcelain tile fell behind winners quartz and granite but at $5.00 a square foot was by far the most budget friendly.

Frances Priest creates ceramic vessels, tiles, and sculptural forms that explore the possibilities of pattern.