It’s one thing to follow trends and obey their rules, but it’s another when your favourites never seem to stay in fashion. For Tile Addicts there are a few tile trends we see come and go, designs we love and features we fantasise about, but all too often they don’t stick around long enough for us to enjoy them. So here are Tile Addict’s top … Continue reading Top tile trends we hope to see more of
A curly marble creation from designer Tom Dixon is a material with a twist. This material is designed to look like marbled paper but functions as a something significantly more robust. Continue reading Curly Marble
Delightful abstract patterns help distinguish this unique tile range from Sartoria. A retro colour palette that features browns, blues, and greens, as well as a selection of rainbow mixes. Continue reading Abstracted Nature from Sartoria
A simple shape with extraordinary scope for decor. Wow Design‘s Elle Floor mixes media, colours, and texture with right-angles to produce a creative surface with endless layout possibilities. Continue reading Attractive Right Angles
Plain subway tiles are the medium of choice for destructive artist Graziano Locatelli. With an intense appreciation for the broken and damaged Locatelli’s artworks celebrate the cracked and fragmented with a decisive level of order. Born in 1977 in Bergamo, a childhood fascination led to this self-taught artist to experiment with unusual materials like aluminium and broken glass. Continue reading Broken but breathtaking
Finding tile companies is always a joy, exploring ranges, patterns, design, shapes, and relief and finding the fun and fabulous ways creatives are taking advantage of tile to produce incredible surface solutions. Continue reading Oasis, Zing, and Starburst
This year marks the 110th anniversary of marble company Del Savio. Originally specialising in the production of Terrazzo and Palladiana floorings, Del Savio extended its production to manufacture marble for additional purposes including furnishings progressively broadened its industrial production and nowadays manufactures marble for different purposes, such as furnishings, various types of coverings, and items for the construction industry. Continue reading Del Savio
Ceramic and porcelain tile specialists BottegaNove have a knack for textured relief tiles. Inspired to innovate and branch out from the norm Christian Pegoraro focuses on designs that offer effortless modernity whilst remaining steeped in a rich tradition of ceramic craftmanship. Continue reading Plumage and Flora
A luxury restaurant in the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan features Marazzi tiles throughout. Cracco, the latest project by award-winning chef Carlo Cracco, was undertaken by architects Laura Sartori Rimini and Roberto Peregalli from the architecture firm Peregalli. Continue reading Cracking Cracco
Luxury French jewellery company, and purveyor of fine things Céleste Mogador have added one of the finest things of all to their collections – tiles. Their range of nine patterns in a variety of bold hues and delightful designs are currently, unfortunately, sold out, but we can still admire them from afar. Continue reading Carreaux ciment de Céleste Mogador
It’s no secret that we Tile Addict’s love a wood-look tile and have done for years. Although the countless fascinating designs mixing media, shade, and effects with the wood-looks are extraordinarily exciting, sometimes it’s a standard plank that really needs a mention. Continue reading Green Wood
It’s always wonderful for people to take art into their own hands, to forego the norm and decorate as they see fit. And for us at Tile Addict it’s even better when ceramics are involved. Continue reading Wyckoff Street Mosaic
Here at Tile Addict we have a slight obsession with cogobós and Italian brand Mutina is doing a fine job of supplying these ceramic screens to the European market. Notably our last article on the subject covered the gorgeous Celosia, designed by another Tile Addict favourite, Patricia Urquiola. Continue reading Bric and Brac
A collaboration between architect Daniel Libeskind and Casalgrande Padana brings forward a celebration of fractal mathematics. Fractals are difficult to define concisely, but for the fractals in this case it can be said that there are structures within structures that allow for both the whole and parts of it to be seen as complete. Continue reading Fractal Forms
Back in November we covered the fantastic activist artworks from Negweny El Assal, a master of transforming cigarette butts into meaningful masterpieces. And today we have something very similar to share. Continue reading The Cigar Band House
2020’s trendy blue marble is the focal point for Roca Tile‘s space in Madrid’s Casa Decor building. Masquespacio, the ever trendy design agency we have previously featured here, created the space as an ode to interio decor, emphasising the role of ceramics and paying homage to the Greco-Roman architectural tradition. Continue reading Blue Curve Interior
A company nestled in California’s endless farmlands continues a family tradition that has been alive since the 1920s. Founded in 1986 by Paul Burns, the ever fascinating and necessary material – clay – offers surprise and inspiration for Fireclay Tile. With a commitment to the implementation of sustainable manufacturing practices, using recycled materials, and employee welfare, Fireclay Tile is a company full of soul. Continue reading Ceramic Crop Circles
Due to the slow-down of industry and the cancellation of Coverings, and now Cersaie, tile trends are harder to spot. In Feburary we offered Tile Addict’s take on Cevisama, detailing the most notable trends seen throughout the show, with an additional three that were present but slightly less prolific – the patterns and colour palette of 70s retro, 3D tiles with a woven and panelled … Continue reading Tile Trends Summer 2020
It’s tea waste that inspires Michael McManus and Matthew Grant who founded Dust London in 2016. The duo put to use their backgrounds in art and architecture into crafting unique angular homeware out of waste. Continue reading Dust London
Lifestyle brand and design aficionados Jungalow bring good vibes home with their mission to enrich the human/nature connection. Founder Justina Blakeney believes it is creativity that makes for an incredible home, and that good design can greatly improve ones quality of life. Continue reading Jungalow X Granada Tile
