Oakland tile setter Riley Doty remembers his first trip through the San Francisco Marina District in the late '70s. Doty, who had fallen in love with the ceramic medium during his teens in New York ...

The muted, earth-toned tiles have the patina of age and the one-of-a-kind character that comes from handcrafting. It's a look that helped define the Arts and Crafts movement of the early 1900s, and it ...