Retro Tile Trends for 2025: A Colorful Comeback with Modern Edge
In 2025, retro tile design is roaring back—bold, playful, and richly textured. Drawing inspiration from the 1960s and ’70s, today’s tiles revive mid-century motifs and moods through geometric shapes, earthy tones, and nostalgic palettes, all crafted with today’s materials and techniques. Whether it’s groovy florals or clean-lined cement looks, leading tile brands are tapping into the past to create spaces that feel both timeless and fresh. Here's a look at how some of the most forward-thinking tile brands are channeling retro design for a new era.
Daltile leads the retro resurgence with its Color Wheel Retro Mosaic series, blending jet black, crisp white, teal, and mustard into playful shapes like 2"x3" mosaics, chevrons, and arabesques. It’s a direct callback to the geometric exuberance of the ’60s and ’70s.
From Daltile’s Color Wheel Retro collection
Lunada Bay’s Textile Collection doesn’t scream “retro,” but it quietly hums the tune. Handcrafted glass mosaics inspired by mid-century weaving patterns bring in organic geometrics and soft curves in throwback tones, capturing the tactile and artistic spirit of 1960s interiors.
Cotto d’Este’s Cement Project and Metal collections feature terrazzo-inspired squares and sleek hexagons with a concrete edge. Their Black-White series, with high-contrast formats, nods directly to the optical patterns popular in the 1960s while remaining elegantly modern.
As a distributor, Best Tile highlights a vintage aesthetic through curated offerings like Merola’s 1970s-inspired flower mosaics, penny rounds, and bold arabesques. While not branding collections as “retro,” their product mix consistently reflects that aesthetic.
With its Retro Collection, Porcelanosa embraces mid-century design outright—green and pink subway tiles, peel-and-stick mosaics, and geometric wall options reminiscent of 1970s kitchens and baths.
MLW’s Vintage Collection is full of visual references to the mid-20th century: 2.5" x 7.8" ceramic tiles in Oval Green, Flat Blue, and Auburn, and patterned porcelain squares like the Artista Miro evoke painterly, retro vibes.
MLW Surfaces - Vintage Collection
Florida Tile bridges eras with its Retroclassique line of glazed subways, which bring Victorian and Edwardian details into retro-modern homes. Floral motifs and pastel accents—common in 1970s decor—pop up in ceramic tiles fit for any vintage-style refresh.
MileStone’s Vintage Collection reinvents wood-look porcelain planks and 10"x10" hex tiles in warm, earthy tones. The natural textures and honeyed palette feel distinctly ’70s but are built for contemporary durability.
Expanding the Retro Spectrum: More Brands Bringing Back the Past
Artistic Tile’s Antique Tiles line mixes mosaics, mirrored metals, and stone to channel early 20th-century luxury—but the collection’s intricate texture and shimmer also play beautifully into late-’60s/early-’70s glam.
The Vintage porcelain collection from Cancos Tile & Stone offers soft Carrara and Nero Marquina marble-looks in matte squares, providing a traditional but timeless backdrop for retro palettes. Their 3D Lux series, with tactile textures, borrows from mid-century surfaces while pushing toward modern flair.
SoHo’s Canvas and Retro lines embrace soft sage, cloud blue, and retro black in pressed formats like 8×24 and 3×6 bricks, penny rounds, and hex mosaics. The collections capture the subway-style warmth and funky edge of mid-century urban design. Ragno’s Rewind Collection mixes concrete coolness with mid-century pattern play, especially in its “Cementine” tiles—7x28cm pieces that combine minimalist color with vintage geometric expression, true to 1960s architectural tiling.
The Retro line from MiR Mosaic brings the humble hex into oversized proportions—14"x14" porcelain tiles in matte finishes give retro geometry a dramatic, modern twist for floors and statement walls. With soft-toned subways in the Traditions line—like Biscuit, Cocoa, and Ice White—Bedrosians captures the subtle warmth of mid-century color palettes. Their Palazzo Square in “Vintage Grey” and other decorative porcelains offer understated retro charm.
Finally, handcrafted and rugged, Arto’s Artillo concrete tiles come in arabesque, diamond, and hex shapes with earthy, vintage finishes like Cotto Dark or Creme Fraiche. The tactile warmth and irregular shapes embrace the handcrafted ethos of 1970s design.
From bold geometrics to earthy textures, 2025’s retro tile revival blends nostalgic charm with modern craftsmanship inviting the past into the present with effortless flair.