Coverings, the largest international tile and stone event in North America, announced seven Best Booth Awards for the 2026 show in Las Vegas, including three Best in Show awards, three Best Display awards, and one Best Stone Display award. The annual awards program recognizes exhibits with exceptional creative and visual materiality experiences for showgoers.
“The booth craftsmanship and display ingenuity the exhibitors evoke on the show floor make Coverings a highly unique opportunity for attendees to be inspired by tactile and aesthetic spaces,” said Jamie Rich, Coverings Managing Director. “From new tile and stone collections thoughtfully presented to immersive exhibits designed with architectural elements and passthrough walkways, there is no shortage of innovation.”
A panel of tile and stone industry leaders selected the seven standout booths to spotlight as this year’s Best Booth Award recipients, though the caliber across the entire show floor was truly impressive.
Ceramica Del Conca (booth 1614) received Best in Show for its immersive design that brought visitors on a sensory journey. Attendees visiting Ceramica Del Conca’s booth were greeted by the eye-catching exterior covered with three-dimensional red stone and illuminated by LED lights hidden behind mirrors with primal shapes. Large surfaces flanked the floors and walls of the first three rooms in the exhibit space, highlighting the three-dimensional effect of porcelain stoneware stones. The exhibit space also spotlighted seven tile collections, including the Dinamika Stone Edition collection and Dimore collection.
A Best in Show award was also granted to Stonepeak Ceramics (booth 6234) for its storytelling design, “The Magical Journey,” illustrating how the company has transformed ceramics over time through innovation, sustainability, and design. The entrance to the booth showcased an immersive journey through a magical portal, beyond which visitors were offered a new interpretation of ceramics and led into a space of perceptions. The design transformed reality, revealing a perfect balance that played on perspectives. Attendees entered the exhibition space, where porcelain dress stairs, vases, and columns were installed upside down to represent an altar-universe and heaven-like experience. A Material Library was available inside the booth featuring Stonepeak’s entire range of ceramic and porcelain products, including terrazzo looks, marble looks, stone looks and more, showcasing the diverse product range of colors, thicknesses, formats, and finishes.
VIVES AZULEJOS Y GRES (S.A.) (booth 819) was also honored as a Best in Show winner. The company’s vibrant display, showcased through ceramics, was inspired by the striking impact one experiences when visiting Las Vegas. VIVES conveyed this through its Surf collection, which offers a wide variety of decorated tile in multiple formats and colors. Key features of the booth were two towers that simulated, with tile, the illuminated signs of Las Vegas, as well as a central corridor that highlighted the full color range offered by the Surf collection. Two other collections creatively displayed were Tandem Wood and Duo.
Ceramica Rondine – Bottega (booth 1145) earned one of the Coverings 2026 Best Display honors. Attendees visiting the booth were guided through a series of interconnected rooms, each displaying different ceramic and porcelain offerings from the company. A standout space within the exhibit was the Japan-inspired room displaying a variety of Ceramica Rondine – Bottega’s wood-look tile collections, centered around a vibrant cherry blossom tree. Select other collections on display included Pastel X, Portland Rock, and Vibe.
Another Best Display award was presented to Decocer (booth 833) for its “Echoes of the Earth” design by architect Héctor Ruiz Velázquez. The booth was created as a fully immersive experience inspired by the primal qualities of clay and the natural world. The entire pavilion functioned as architecture made of ceramics, rather than using traditional panels or displays, allowing visitors to walk on, touch, and inhabit the materials. In the central space of the booth, ceramic columns, clad in earth-toned tiles, emerged from the clay walls. The curved, flowing forms of the stand created an organic and natural spatial experience to showcase eight tile collections from the company, including Talya and Eterea.
Wonder Porcelain (booth 4439) also received a Best Display award. The company’s impressive exhibit showcased warm colors, technical finishes, new product sizes, and in-house mosaics, and each room of the booth featured a different feel and experience. It was designed to display Wonder Porcelain’s product offerings via the walls and floors. A highlight of the booth was the black-and-white checkerboard floor featuring the company’s new obsidian-black Tuxedo™ Porcelain™ collection and bright-white Arctic Style Porcelain™. Wonder Porcelain’s Taj Opus™ collection was also on display, capturing the timeless character of Taj Mahal marble through a thoughtfully reinterpreted, shimmering, and nuanced design.
The Best Stone Display award went to ANTOLINI® (booth 7833) for its striking exhibit designed as a contemporary village, conceived by designer and creative lead Alessandro La Spada. The concept invited visitors to follow the story of natural stone—from its origin in the quarry to its transformation into refined architectural surfaces. The space invited visitors to see luminous backlit walls, refined kitchen surfaces, and the expressive finishes of the Texture+ collection. In a dedicated space of the booth, these innovations revealed how technology can elevate stone, unveiling unexpected textures and depth. Coverings 2026 attendees touring the space discovered more than 20 of Antolini’s natural stones, including Cipollino GreyWave and Irish Greene®, both part of the Exclusive collection.
About Coverings
Coverings is the largest and preeminent ceramic tile and natural stone trade fair and exposition in all of North America. It features exhibitors from 40 countries and is the stage for introducing some of the most innovative tile and stone products in the world with hundreds of exhibitors. The exposition and conference, with more than 35 years of successful history, serve as a valuable and complimentary learning resource for all segments of the industry, with dozens of educational opportunities throughout the show. Coverings attracts thousands of distributors, retailers, fabricators, contractors, specifiers, architectural and design professionals, builders, real estate developers, as well as journalists, reporters, broadcasters, podcasters, and bloggers who cover the vital tile and stone industry.
