When Artistic Tile, a luxury stone and tile company, promoted its newest product line—mosaics featuring macaroni and farfalle—in April of this year on Instagram, there was an immediate appetite for the design. Called Al Dente, the tiles took inspiration from pasta shapes in sauce. “Every Italian restaurant should take this seriously,” one person commented. The followers, however, had to simmer down: the post on the first of the month was an April Fools’ joke . The idea came to Zach Epstein, Artistic Tile ’s president and chief product officer, when he was reviewing a rendering for another design that had a boomerang shape. Macaroni would be better, he thought. But excitement over the joke reinforced the idea and Artistic Tile decided to actually offer the pasta prints through the company’s Tailored To program, which offers customized designs. They even added two more options: vodka rigatoni made from limestone inlaid in a blush Rosa Perlino and multifaceted Limone Marmi marble butter noodles.…