FEATURE: Daltile creates visually-immersive experience in North Dallas café drink quality coffee, experience local beer and savor baked goods made fresh daily. Starting at 6 a.m., guests line up outside the doors to get their hands on a steaming cof- fee and toasted breakfast pastry. This rush continues until lunchtime as guests begin to place orders for the shop’s famous paninis. As the sun sets, the spot welcomes its final crowd – all eagerly thirsting for a craft beer from one of the 30 signature taps. While the Dallas community is familiar with Civil Pour and its iconic offerings, few know the story behind the brand. After seven years of running beer festivals, co- founder Nellie Montgomery and her husband Chad were encour- aged to open their own shop. Civil Pour provided Montgomery with the perfect opportunity to not only spread her love for great beer and coffee, but also share her passion for design. Determined to create an immersive experience for guests, Montgomery reached out to Daltile early in the design process. Since a space serving both beer and cof- fee presented design challenges to ensure the surfaces could withstand the inevitable spills, Montgomery knew the space would require a special countertop solution. A special countertop solution “I loved working with Daltile,” said Montgomery. “The fact that I could drive down and grab sam- ples to take to the shop was invalu- able and helped put my mind at ease before construction even Jennifer Voss, owner of Stone Craft of Dallas, installed Panoramic Porcelain Surfaces™Elemental Selection Statuario matte on the countertop and Multitude™Origami White wave on the back wall. 42 TileLetter | December 2018