MATERIALS: Waterjet-cut Stone Tile

Click photo for gallery Walker Zanger, Los Angeles, introduces the Stardust collection, featuring mosaic tile that is waterjet-cut from lava stone and glazed to achieve a textured, hand-crafted aesthetic.

Stardust’s palette pays homage to the 1970s era of glam rock and visual experimentation, reminiscent of foil wallpaper and mirrored surfaces, which create a blend of bright metallics, cool neutrals, and bold blacks and whites.

Its celestial-themed color names—Moon Rock, Twilight, Nova, Solar, Midnight and Glam—drew from the atmospheric glazes themselves, which alternate between twinkly silvers, deep-space blacks, heavenly whites and starry golds.

“We are seeing a definite trend toward using texture and metallics in design,” said Walker Zanger Vice President of Design and Marketing Jared Becker. “With Stardust, we fully embraced a modern aesthetic by using highly-textured lava stone with a metallic glaze that accentuates the stone’s tactile depth.” 

The Lava design takes cues from “fat lava” pottery and looks like frozen flows of lava encased in thick, encrusted glazes. Eclipse signifies how the sun and moon dance during this celestial event, juxtaposing light and dark colors between circles and stars. The Zenith pattern uses a vortex of elongated hexagons to draw the eye in, as if looking deep into the heavens and concentrating on a far point.

CONTACT: Walker Zanger, 818-280-8300