And then there is Natalie Blake, because she tends to knock the stuffing out of the entire argument. Yes, she makes tile. And yes, by god, they are incredible works of art, some of the damnedest work I have seen in any medium, really. She uses a method she calls Unalun Tile.

L’Antic Colonial is a Spanish-based company that has gone world-wide in not much more than a decade, including any number of outlets in our own USA. It’s a feat they’ve been able to achieve, I think, because of the incredible luxuriousness of their offerings.

My regular readers-whoever they might be!-know how much I truly love the many variations in tile, but I have to say that NellaVetrina has cornered the market on an absolutely amazing variety of tile designs. And that’s just tile! They also have bathroom furnishings, furniture, and lighting.

New Ravenna Mosaics has formed a collaboration with Giovanni Barbieri, who has created a surface treatment that transforms marble into an undulating surface material that looks like nothing less than stone that has been laid down by the ancients.