On a visit to Lee Harris Nicholson's Filmore Clark tile showroom, just off Melrose near the Pacific Design Center, I was instantly drawn to the Moorish patterns from La Maison Collection. La Maison Collection is a small tile company based in Temecula, California; the husband/wife team behind La Maison have a background in fine art (she was a painter before transferring her craft to glazed terra cotta tile). Contact Filmore Clark for ordering information; owner Nicholson sells to both the trade and retail.

Above: La Maison Collection Toulouse 005 Tile comes in 6-by-6-inch squares; $52.50 per square foot.

Above: La Maison Collection Arabesco Aged 010 in 6-by-6-inch squares; $63 per square foot.