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Status Ceramics Petals tile in Frosted Jungle glaze.

What we’re reading: two great tile blogs

We recommend you read these two tile blogs for inspiration: Tile Envy is a favorite and recently posted a review of art tiles from around the world: Lea Ceramiche is an Italian factory that produces Slimtech 3.5mm porcelain tile, pictured here in a post on their blog, Conversation.

Interview with Zoe Voigt, Tile Expert and Author of Tile Style: Part 2

Part 2 of an interview with Zoe Voigt, a freelance writer, blogger, and tile aficionado. (Link to Part 1) RC: Do you have a favorite tile that you would use for your next project if money were no object? ZV: Oh, yes! This is an easy question, although with being a writer, money will always [...]

Interview with Zoe Voigt, Tile Expert and Author of Tile Style: Part 1

Today we are posting Part 1 of an interview with Zoe Voigt, a freelance writer, blogger, and tile aficionado. RC: You’ve been writing about tile and the tile industry for almost a decade. What drew you to focus your attention on tile? ZV: My mother used to be in the tile business. She was an [...]

Broadway Porcelain Featured in Seattle Homes and Lifestyles

Seattle Homes and Lifestyles magazine has a beautiful gallery of photos and accompanying article featuring a remodel in the North Beach neighborhood. The project was spearheaded by Rik Adams of Adams Mohler Ghillino Architects, who succeeded at updating a 50′s era home into a gorgeous home for his client. We were thankful to Rik for [...]

Heirloom Design: Status Ceramics and Tile to Last Many a Lifetime (or more)

I picked up a copy of Good magazine last week and came across a notion that strikes me as an excellent description of what Richard Scott and his crew at Status Ceramics are doing in the tile studio. The idea is something called Heirloom Design. Saul Griffith, who coined the term, describes it thus: An [...]

Status Ceramics Launches New Website and Offers Complimentary Samples

Status Ceramics has just launched a new website. The new site has larger tile images, beautiful tile concepts, a simple search function, and a list of dealers to make it easy to find Status near you. They are also offering complimentary samples of the new Madison Park Collection. For more information, click on the image [...]

An Ounce of Prevention: New Stone Care Website and Services

For all its beauty, natural stone requires a little extra care. Our salespeople make it standard practice to educate their customers about the additional maintenance requirements and the limitations of natural stone. In spite of that, we still do encounter some challenges after the product is installed. Dallas and Denise Frakes run a company called [...]

renovation junky interviews status ceramics

With Status Ceramics joining the Statements family it is only logical to post when someone does a great interview with them. So, when Renovation Junky did a write up I thought why  not let our readers know. Think of Ciaotile as the refrigerator and the post the “A+” paper. Thanks Renovation Junky. I was recently poking [...]

Who is Faith Sheridan?

When those within the design community are doing good things it should be talked about, so when my personal friend and Statements customer, Faith Sheridan, has made great headway with her blog it should be mentioned. Especially when she has posted about us. So let’s talk a little about Faith Sheridan and why you should [...]