It’s always a time to celebrate when we come across something weird and wonderful in the tile world. And today, the functional art we’re featuring is enticingly weird, outstandingly wonderful, and, of course, fully tiled.
From an exhibition last year titled ‘Please Sit for the Alternate Ending’ held at Objective Gallery designers Sam Klemick and Jeff Martin made their magic from outdated trends, materials, and motifs – allowing ‘waste’ and ‘unfashionable’ styles to live once again.
Sam Klemick’s work features fabrics and wood, gracefully paired, shaped, and salvaged to form remarkable furniture pieces with a personality all their own. But for the Tile Addicts we look to Jeff Martin.
His captivating creations bearing the name ‘Sarcophagus’ instil a unique approach to furniture design from the outset. Encouraging potential purchasers to view each item as sacred, the aim is to refuse a modern attitude for disposal and the constant refreshing, changing, wasting way to furnish, and instead make it a point that each item is for life, not to be discarded and end up in landfill.
With furniture pieces such as tables, cabinets, and trunks, each of Martin’s works are covered in unique, hand made tiles with unusual shapes, curves, textures, and tones all forming unforgettable masterpieces.
A new post by Hanna Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, August 2024.
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