Picture heiress Doris Duke’s jaw-dropping Honolulu powder room without its Taj Mahal–inspired bathroom tile. Meh, right? Or Marie Antoinette’s Versailles checkerboard floor of marble tiles ...

One of the most famous and prominent examples of marble inlay is the Taj Mahal in India. The descendants of the 17th-century artisans who worked on the Taj Mahal still make a living using the ...

The Taj Mahal was built out of white marble by the Mughal emperor of India to house his wife’s tomb. The UNESCO World Heritage Center refers to the building — which took over two decades to complete — ...