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Designer of the Quarter, Summer 2023. Hard surface selections across three residential projects - marble, dolomite, white oak, classic tile. Featured in the catalog, on the website, and in a video interview.
Field Interior Design Material Selection Finish Coordination
Author Jeremy Prasatik Published: 2023 Status: Featured
Classification Interior Design Material Selection Finish Coordination
Abstract
Floor & Decor named the studio Designer of the Quarter for Summer 2023, anchored on hard surface selections across three residential bathrooms. Marble, dolomite, white oak, classic tile - the kit each project pulled from, applied three different ways. The feature ran in the summer catalog, on the Floor & Decor website, and inside a full video interview.
Three projects, three directions. Urban southwest with exposed brick and a matte black soaking tub. Modern farmhouse with shiplap, brass fixtures, and patterned floor tile. Quiet glam with veined marble running floor to ceiling. Each room reads as its own thing, but the underlying material logic is the same.
The focus was hard surfaces, and the projects show how tile and stone anchor everything else. Get the floors and walls right, the rest follows.
Three Projects, Three Directions.
Urban southwest with exposed brick and a matte black soaking tub. Modern farmhouse with shiplap, brass fixtures, and patterned floor tile. Quiet glam with veined marble running floor to ceiling.
Same material vocabulary across all three - marble, dolomite, white oak, classic tile - but the proportions, fixtures, and finishes shift hard between projects. The point of the feature wasn't a single style. It was showing that the same kit can carry very different rooms when the selections stay disciplined.
Modern farmhouse, shiplap and brass on marble
Material Confidence, Not Material Matching.
The common thread is material confidence. Mixing textures that shouldn't obviously work together, but do. Vertical stacked tile against horizontal brick. Polished nickel next to unlacquered brass. Cool marble warming up against reclaimed wood ceilings.
The combinations felt risky on paper but landed perfectly in person. A matte black tub reads softer when it sits between hard brick and warm oak than it ever does in a render. Patterned floor tile reads quieter under shiplap and a vaulted ceiling than under flat drywall. The trick was selecting materials together rather than sequentially - if a stone and a wood and a metal can hold each other in the moodboard, they hold each other in the room.
Quiet glam, veined marble floor to ceiling
Large-format veined marble runs the full height of the walls, a brass urchin pendant breaks the verticality, and a graphic star tile grounds the floor. The room sits opposite the urban southwest project's brick-and-black register - the same marble vocabulary, dialed down to one slab and one accent metal. Restraint is the move when the material is doing the talking.
Mapping the material kit across the three projects shows where the overlaps actually live. Marble carries every room. Polished nickel and hexagon mosaic bridge two of the three. Brass anchors the warmer pair. The distinct character of each room comes from the small handful of materials that only show up once in the entire feature - exposed brick, shiplap, the urchin pendant.
One Material Kit, Three Different Rooms.
Marble, dolomite, white oak, classic tile - the same vocabulary across three projects, applied with enough confidence to read as three distinct rooms.
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Floor & Decor named the studio Designer of the Quarter on the strength of three bathrooms that share a material vocabulary but read as three completely different rooms. The hard surface selections did the structural work - tile and stone setting the proportions, the rest of the build sitting on top of them.
