You can use tile instead of stone to create an abstract floor or wall.
She enriched her pickings with old tiles and fragments of stone or metal that embodied particular shapes and hues.
Think damask banquettes, tiles of Azul Ataija stone, Jade stoves, inspection hurdles and, most important, people.
But objects such as a blue curling serpent with two heads, its body covered in tiny tiles of precious turquoise stone, survive from that Conquistador treasure.
In Zarace, even the roofs are made of stone tiles.
From the baptismal font, at the back of the church, to the steps of the altar, ninety feet away, no pews or carpet or other fixtures interrupt an open expanse of stone tiles, whose foot-polished smoothness suggests a dance studio or the floor of Grand Central.
Abrasion wear tests were performed on a Böhme apparatus which is widely used in the construction industry for determining flooring suitability of stone tiles.
In Japan, they might be placed in the middle of a room and drain directly onto a floor of stone tile or, in fancier, zen garden-like setups (both indoors and out), they might lie on a bed of smooth river rocks, surrounded by plantings of whispering bamboo.
At first, acroteria were made of terra-cotta, as were the roof tiles; later they were made of stone.
The front doors opened onto a refurbished dining room with high ceilings, terra-cotta tile floors and a row of stone arches that suggested a Roman amphitheater.
