On Mallorca, an island in Spain’s Balearic chain, the Huguet family has been making encaustic cement tiles using the traditional hydraulic method since 1933.
Photography courtesy of Huguet.
Even in bright colors, cement tile has a muted, chalky appearance. Here, an entryway composed of black, blue, yellow, and tan tiles from Huguet’s Plain Tile collection, in a combination created by Slovakian graphic designer Peter Biľak.
The company’s plain tiles come in nearly 40 standard colors, plus fully customizable shades. Here, sample panels show the wide variation to be expected within four individual colors: (clockwise from top left:) white, Llop Gray, Pastor Gray, and black.
A bathroom with blue triangle tiles from the Sybilla collection, a collaboration with fashion designer Sybilla Sorondo.
Another bath with Sybilla tiles, this time in pattern 6 Daus in black and white.
Sample boards from the Sybilla collection show six tile patterns in red, tan, and black.
A floor pattern of white triangles with inset black, from a collaboration with Spanish architect Carme Pinós.
Graphic tiles in black, tan, and white from the Carme Pinós collection.