These Are the Hottest New Surface Materials

Drawing on the geometric influences of Art Deco and organic curves of Art Nouveau, Walker Zanger’s sophisticated Ellington Collection designs (Empire shown here) allow the luxury of the materials—marbles and limestones inlaid with brass, copper and stainless steel—to take center stage. Coming this spring.

Peonies inspired Artistic Tile’s new Peony decorative field tile. The floral pattern is etched on marble with luminous gold (on white marble) or bronze (on gray marble, shown) metallic highlights. Through Connecticut Stone.

Launched in fall 2016, Mosaïque Surface’s Odyssée Collection includes Cirque, in brushed brass and honed Calacatta Oro. Through Country Floors.

Alessandro Mendini’s latest glass mosaic range for Bisazza includes three colorful graphic designs reminiscent of Italian, Arab and Nordic cultures, including Ferrara (shown), which has a center of 24K gold.

New metallic glazes on Bantam Tileworks’ handcrafted tiles are created by a multilayer glaze of metallics on the bottom with color layered on the top.

Inspired by Art Deco design, Ann Sacks’ new Ermanno collection of metallic glazed porcelain tile patterns includes Geometric (shown in gold on white). Through Best Plumbing Tile & Stone.

Marble meets metals in AKDO’s Luminous Collection, available in a variety of options including two marble versions with metallic details—Calacatta with Gold (shown in Ray pattern) and Thassos with Silver. Through Klaffs.

Introduced at Cevisama 2016, Alea’s Geom series (part of the Alea Random collection) are hexagon ceramic wall tiles with a metallic gold (shown), copper or silver finish in a variety of textures. hudsontilesupply.com.

New Ravenna’s Heathrow Grande, a hand-cut and waterjet mosaic of stone and glass, is shown in tumbled Afyon White and Chinchilla Serenity glass, part of the Miraflores Collection by Paul Schatz. Through Bender.

Kinship, Oceanside Glasstile’s newest launch, incorporates a variety of stones with glass (shown here in Lineage pattern, Pedigree color, glass and sandstone blend) in dimensional field designs as well as traditional brick pattern. Through Tile America.

In a delicate blend of mother of pearl, glass, polished and opaque stones, Marble Systems’ Mystique Collection (Rita pattern shown) draws upon the rich decorative history of Far Eastern, Gothic and Mediterranean designs. Through Paramount Stone.

Waterworks’ popular Grove Brickworks collection has expanded to include 12 new jewel-like and metallic colors (Bronca shown); the rich glazes enhance the organic irregularities of the brick.

Porcelanosa’s Bombay collection has a metallic polished shine and comes in silver (shown), copper, gold and matte white.