Top interior designers and their discerning clients are not just looking for beauty, but individuality. They want one-of-a-kind elements that reflect their style, make a statement, and, most importantly, are entirely custom to them. There are endless opportunities to give a home personality and fabulous flair with tile and slab, but you must work with the right professionals.
When you collaborate with Artistic Tile, you can design and dream up looks without limits. The company and market leader, founded in 1987 and boasting a 125,000-square-foot warehouse in New Jersey where many orders are crafted on-site, is known for their unrivaled custom capabilities. From concept to finish, their customization options allow designers to deliver tailored, distinctive spaces time and time again.
Get inspired by some exquisite, bold, brave, and delicate rooms hinged on tile and slab looks brought to life by Artistic Tile. We’re also diving into the specific ways you can customize your projects with the company’s precise, finely-honed methods.
Whether you want to use natural stone, glass, or porcelain, Artistic Tile can cut, finish, and assemble each material to suit your creative vision. For example, many designers love how the company’s surface finishes can transform the look and feel of a material instantly. Artistic Tile offers a broad range of finishes—including polished, honed, leathered, brushed, and sandblasted—that allow customers to constantly mix it up. Shiny, polished marble, soft leathered limestone, and much more are at your fingertips.
But, how can you customize further?
1. Tile
Customization extends well beyond material and finish selection. Artistic Tile’s stocked tile collections can be changed to suit the specifications or style of any project. Here are some examples of what they can do.
- Field Cuts: The company’s in-house fabrication team can cut tile to nearly any dimension, from 2” to 24”, allowing you to adapt a product exactly to your spatial and design requirements.
- Play with Sizing: Create rhythm and variation by using multiple tile sizes cut from the same stone. This approach supports creative, eye-catching patterning while maintaining a subdued, elegant tone.
2. Slab
Slabs offer dramatic visual impact and are often chosen for their size and substantial feel. Larger than tile, they can be ideal picks for backsplashes, kitchen islands, and entire floors. They especially lend themselves to modern or contemporary style, but Artistic Tile can help you customize them in any way.
You can easily browse Artistic Tile’s vast slab inventory, in person at any of their three slab galleries in NJ, Dallas, and Nashville, or online; the company posts photos of every slab on their website, making it easy to find the ideal piece for your project. Whether you are crafting countertops, wall panels, striking wine rooms, or large scale patterns, they can cut the slab you’ve fallen in love with to the exact dimensions you need, polish or hone it on-site to ensure it meets your vision, and deliver it intact, nationwide.
3. Mosaic
Often the most fun step for designers, Artistic Tile’s mosaic capabilities are the epitome of design freedom. There are so many ways you can customize their materials and create patterns that pop.
You can opt for straight-cut mosaics, which are ideal for both classic and contemporary spaces. For design consistency and cohesiveness across a project, Artistic Tile can also produce mosaics from the same lot as the field tile you’ve chosen. This especially provides you with exciting possibilities to integrate mosaics seamlessly alongside larger format tiles.
However, the most complex and innovative method for making unique mosaics is waterjet technology. With 60,000 psi powerful waterjet machines using abrasive garnet powder to cut materials into familiar or unusual shapes, Artistic Tile can bring any mosaic design to life. To wow clients and present them with unexpected custom ideas, designers should understand this technique and fully utilize it.
- Standard Waterjet Patterns: Choose from over 100 existing mosaic patterns to implement with your preferred material selection, such as stone, glass, or porcelain.
- Fully Custom: You can also create entirely new, custom waterjet designs, allowing for intricate and curvilinear patterns.
- Large-Scale Waterjet Designs: Waterjet can also create intricate or striking mosaic patterns on large walls or floors cut from tile or slab.
4. Execution and Installation
Artistic Tile’s mosaic calibration process ensures every piece, no matter the material, is ground to exact thickness. This is especially vital in mixed-material mosaic designs where glass and stone may mingle, for example.
Carpet cutting is another attractive service Artistic Tile offers for complex installations. Your tile pattern is cut to fit your space like a glove, then strategically cut into smaller pieces to simplify installation. Each piece is clearly labeled according to the installation guideline. Not only does this save you and your clients valuable time on-site, but it also minimizes waste.
Whatever you customize and order through their Tailored To program, your bespoke creations will be cut, assembled, and shipped right from Artistic Tile’s 125,000-square-foot New Jersey headquarters. With customization at Artistic Tile’s in-house production studio, you benefit from shorter lead times, greater flexibility, and protection from tariffs.
Artistic Tile empowers you to create exceptional tile and slab looks that are as original as you and your clients. You can design bravely and without limits, trusting that the final result will be precise, of the highest quality, and show-stopping for your projects.
To look through Artistic Tile’s unparalleled inventory and to learn how you can work with this tried-and-true industry leader, visit artistictile.com.
