While The International Surface Event, held in Las Vegas in January, is the premier event for the tile, stone and floor-covering industries and a showplace for beautiful surfaces, KBIS nonetheless had plenty of artistic surfaces on display. This room inside the Kohler booth stood out with three gorgeous new products: a new type of marble, a tile made of factory waste and a hammered sink. Interior and product designer Mick De Giulio — whose designs are featured at the presidential guesthouse in Washington, D.C. — designed the Bacifiore sink, pictured here, for Kohler’s Kallista brand. Its polished and distressed stainless steel is hand-hammered to create an organic floral motif. The vanity shown in this photo uses the new and dramatic Scala marble from Kohler’s Ann Sacks brand. It has a white background with veining in green, gray, sapphire blue and black. The green tiles are composed of unfired pottery waste — in other words, scraps of ceramic, sand and dust from the tile factory — that forms a beautiful crackled pattern after it is fired. This tile is the only one on the market made of pottery cull and foundry dust as well as waste glaze.
Amy Studebaker Design covered the vanity wall of this St. Louis powder room from floor to ceiling with glass subway tiles that have a metallic silver finish. Other highlights include a pedestal sink with chrome legs and a pair of shaded wall sconces.
like the green
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black hexagonal tiles
LOVE the green tile!
Green tile
Love the stars on the floor! And the corner cabinet.
cool idea!
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