tile selection

I love tile.  For years, it has pushed all my creative buttons and fired my desire to learn everything I can about all of its forms.  From my first days in the business to this very day, I’ve been inspired by its beauty, its rich history, the challenges involved in installing it perfectly and the potential it has to transform spaces. And it’s no stretch to say I’ve worked with tile most of my life, reaching all the way back to when I was 12 years old, mixing mud and cleaning tools for a neighbor who was at that time a prominent tile contractor in Los Angeles and Hawaii.  As a teenager, I worked weekends and summers (when the surf was low), eventually picking up what I needed to know to complete installation jobs on my own.   I tried a variety of other things – been in bands and played music around the world, designed sets in Hollywood, supervised a variety of construction projects, worked in a few restaurants.  But I’ve always come back to tile, started my own installation business in the early 1980s and have been at it ever since. As I’ve learned more and grown in skill, I’ve come to see tile design and installation as