Tile Style: Ann Sacks Showroom Opens in Design District

Back in 1980, a pioneering Oregonian stumbled across some Mexican Talavera tile she thought she could sell.

Twenty-seven years later, Ann Sacks (now owned by Kohler) is the first and last name in luxury tile, stone and bath fixtures, and boasts a gleaming new Dallas Design District showroom to display it all to perfection.

Located just across the street from the company's previous location, the new, 4,200-square-foot space is a veritable shrine to surface design.

Natural light floods through the floor-to-ceiling windows, illuminating tiles of every shape, size, description and color.

One particularly shining example: the Davlin glass line, made from sheets of gold leaf pressed under glass and priced about $209 a square foot.