It was one of less than ten submarines that the Germans outfitted with experimental synthetic rubber skin of anechoic tiles designed to counter Allied sonar devices.

The yellow, zinnia-flowered tile, designed by Gaudí, was manufactured by Vicens.

From the way it's beveled, my guess is it's an insulating tile designed to tessellate with other tiles just like it.

When showing the house, Mr. Schiro takes pains to point out the tiles designed by the artist Keith Haring, "a friend of Moore's."

The walls are furnished with tiles designed by José de Guimarães, a present from the Portuguese ambassador in Berlin.

Soon large, home-made blue-and-white figurative tiles, designed by academically trained Portuguese artists, became the dominant fashion, superseding the former taste for repeated patterns and abstract decoration.

Decorated tiles designed by Morris and his contemporaries will go on view from Sept. 24 to Dec. 7.

Her first public commission, executed in 1980, was an abstract narrative mural of tactile tiles designed to read like Braille.

The fireplace was an old one, built by some Dutch merchant long ago, and paved all round with quaint Dutch tiles, designed to illustrate the Scriptures.

One side had the black coating of the tiles designed to deflect the greatest heat.