October 4, 2019

Alison Rose Reflects on Her Latest Collaboration With Artistic Tile

Designer Alison Rose. Photography courtesy of Artistic Tile.

While participating in a panel discussion, interior designer Alison Rose showed a photo of one of her residential projects featuring a custom configuration of tiles from Artistic Tile. In the crowd was the company’s founder and CEO, Nancy Epstein, who approached Rose after the presentation and floated the idea of a collaboration. That proposal culminated in Euclid, named for the father of geometry. Rose developed the design by studying historic tapestries under a microscope, then reinterpreting the sequence of fibers as a geometric mosaic. Four water-jet-cut shapes in a variety of classical marbles, from Lilac to Cipollino, can be arranged in virtually endless iterations. “It’s basically my alphabet: set units designed to work together in infinite ways,” says Rose. Individual tiles are approximately 5 or 10 inches square, while pre-mixed sheets measure about 11 or 20 inches square.

Euclid by Alison Rose for Artistic Tile.
Euclid by Alison Rose for Artistic Tile.

Euclid by Alison Rose for Artistic Tile.
Euclid by Alison Rose for Artistic Tile.

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