(Image: Mah Jongg tiles designed by Chistoph Niemann, from "Mah Jongg: Crak, Bam, Dot).
In 2012 the turquoise tiles designed by Muslims in the Ottoman era were removed.
Applications lie behind oblong tiles designed for fingertips rather than icons for mouse-clicks.
One side had the black coating of the tiles designed to deflect the greatest heat.
4. Italian marble tiles, designed by Kevin Walz, have inlaid bronze and resin shavings that make patterns -- crosses (shown), dots and arcs.
The new permanent displays will include printed, woven and embroidered fabrics, rugs, carpets, wallpapers, furniture, stained glass and painted tiles designed by Morris and by Edward Burne Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.
One thousand feet higher, and so greener and quieter than the main town, Anacapri was previously known chiefly for the church of San Michele, distinguished by a fine floor of tiles designed by the baroque painter Francesco Solimena.
The motif includes a series of arches to suggest strength and support, and the rotunda at the front entrance has a 70-foot ceiling decorated with tiles designed as the state flower.
ArtWare Editions, a company that sells limited-edition functional artworks, has dinnerware and tiles designed by the artist Sol LeWitt and produced in the maiolica workshops of rural Italy.
Then there is Growth Pattern, a series of ornamental tiles designed by the Seattle-based artist Allison Kudla, which spontaneously change their pattern because they are made of cut tobacco leaves laid out in a grid of square petri dishes.
