Scandinavian & Native American Inspired Tile Collection by Commune for Exquisite Surfaces.

Malmo subway cement tiles in colour Zebra.

Stockholm subway cement tiles in colour Zebra.

Zuni square cement tiles in colour Python.

Navajo square cement tiles in colour Zebra.

‘Native Tile Collection’, a new line by Commune for Exquisite Surfaces, consisting of subway and square cement tiles inspired by Scandinavian and Native American textile patterns. “We work with a lot of patterns,” explains Roman Alonso, founding partner of Commune, design studio in LA that offers interior, exterior, and product-design services. “We began noticing similarities between some of our favourite Scandinavian and Native American prints. The closer we looked at them, the more parallels we saw.”

The focus of Commune’s collaboration with Exquisite Surfaces, a family-run company that creates custom flooring and surface materials, was to develop a line of tiles that play off the kindred patterns they’d found. The unique custom flooring collection is made up of four different patterns – Malmo, Stockholm, Navajo and Zuni. All the designs can be mixed to create a variety of custom patterns. Manufactured in Morocco, each tile is coloured and pressed by hand, resulting in slight irregularities that provide additional detail that gives this product a very special charm.

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[Images courtesy of Exquisite Surfaces.]