It’s our last post of the year so we’re leaving 2025 with a bag of curiosities for your viewing pleasure. Feast your eyes on flowers, matryoshka, and Daliesque scenes, and have a lovely winter holiday! 1) Ditorni Isola Designed by Inga Sempé for Mutina, plain colours, patterns, and scenes make up Ditorni (surroundings). Geometric motifs and solid shades form distinctive details and intriguing space, but … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXIV
Tattoos, watercolours, shells, wiggles, and ladybirds, today’s Cyberspace Curiosities covers much! 1) Tattoo Tiles Designed by tattoo artist Alba Dhaya and made in collaboration with Bussoga, these gorgeous creations translate thorny rose ink designs onto tile. 2) Ciment Stamp This unusual decor from Aparici sits amongst a selection of plain grey cement-effect tiles. Drawing focus, Stamp features a watercolour effect in blue and white with … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXII
With charming 3D masks by Gent-based Pieter Bostoen, Antimaterie joins the ranks of our collection of tile-adjacent ceramic curiosities. Combining ancient techniques with contemporary stylings, each mask is handmade with its own distinct personality. Ranging in size and shape from curved to geometric, stepped, striped, or scratched, every piece is a work of art. Intense shades of red, fresh whites, natural terracotta, forest green, and … Continue reading Charming Ceramic Masks
From comics to cheese, modern clay to unfired tiles, today’s curiosities are full of magic! 1) Mosaic Tiles Achilles Colored Duo A bold, bizarre, and craftily curious, this unexpected mosaic design from Mosafil showcases a variety of characters, artworks, and comic-strip snippets for an unusual Pop Art bonanza with a retro flair. 2) Firenze Made from NeoClay, a new, innovative ceramic material, Solus Ceramics’ Firenze … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXI
Movable magnetic tiles coat the surface of Re-Glow – a series of modular furniture pieces designed by Eindhoven-based Studio Rens and created in collaboration with ceramic design studio Cor Unum. Blocky coffee tables, side tables, cubes, and vases form the striking collection, all bursting with life, colour, and joy over their steel frames. A push-pull contrasting glaze effect forms vibrant contrast across the tiles, with … Continue reading Movable Magnetic Modules
Sealife tiles got a post of their own, as did those that took us underwater, but we kept back these fishy fancies so they could all hang out here together. 1) Poisson Made up of seven colour-coded fish triptychs, Ceramiche Arcea‘s Poisson plays with pattern and tone for a marvellous mix and match shaol that varies the decor from heady to body to tail. 2) … Continue reading Six silly fish tiles
Please welcome to the fold June’s collection of Cyberspace Curiosities! 1) Wiltshire Hares This adorable collection by Wiltshire artist Joanna May for Ca’ Pietra sets the scene of eight hares playfully running, leaping, and posing for a sweet and simple rural farmhouse vibe made to be mixed and matched. 2) Phase to Phase Showing the cycle of the moon in a striking sequence, these stunning … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XIX
It’s time to bring you more fantastic tiling with our most wonderfully whimsical collection of curiosities yet! 1) People Bianco Creating crazy cartwheeling characters with limbs repeating indefinitely as they spin, the unusual, artsy People Bianco tiles from Codicer95 are breakdancing dancing hexagons full of life. A selection of faces forms a feature unlike any other, with silly scenes just waiting to be discovered. 2) … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XVIII
We’ve shared over 80 tiles across our Cyberspace Curiosities series so far but are you still on the lookout for unique, unusual, and wonderfully weird tiles? Then here are five more for our 17th instalment. 1) Mare The lovely Lili Cement graces our Curiosities once more with their seaside surprise Mare tiles. Three oceanic colour ways decorate the wibbly wobbly waves that travel across these … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XVII
Five fabulous decorative tiles coming up in today’s collection of Cyberspace Curiosities. 1) Biselado Vintage Pearlescent and shimmering in varying shades of pink, Dreamtile‘s Biselado Vintage tiles blend a mature shape with playful light and colour. 2) Art Deco Curve Blush Art Deco meets Barbiecore in Bert & May‘s Art Deco Curve Blush tiles. Pink and peach pair together for stunning statement design. Clean white … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XVI
We’ve got a wonderfully colourful compilation of Cyberspace Curiosities for you today, perfect for eclectic homes and a touch of designer flair. 1) T18 You may recognise these tiles from a post all the way back in 2017 (where they were featured in Levi Roots Caribbean Smokehouse) but these simple encaustic delights from Alhambra Tiles still look as good as ever and deserve another go … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XV
For any new readers, our Cyberspace Curiosities series collects five of the most weird and wonderful tile collections we’ve found across the internet and puts them all right here for you to enjoy. And this is our eleventh instalment, so let’s take a look! 1) Pampa Designed by Italian company Ceramiche Caesar, these decor tiles come from a wide range of Deco Solutions, each featuring … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XI
We’ve cleared Cevisama‘s trends, we’ve shared one of our favourite stands, and we’ve grouped together a whole bunch of mini-trends, but now it’s time to begin what you’ve all been waiting for – the Cevisama Curiosities series. This time I’m switching it up, creating ‘families’ of curiosities rather than the free-for-all you’ve grown accustomed to and the first family of this Cevisama season – The … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: The 70s
After a little break from curiosities, we’re back with another fabulous five. 1. Canine Collection from Lili Cement Tile Six dogs, each named and artistically rendered make up this adorable collection from Lili Cement Tile. Benji the Shiba Inu, Winston the French Bulldog, Rocky the Great Dane, Max the Bernese Mountain Dog, Charlie the Border Collie, and Duke the Saint Bernard all decorate soft cement … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities IX
We’ve been following the tile world for a long time, but with so much to see and report on, there are some things that have been missed. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t important or inspiring, so we’ve gathered a few fantastic tile collections we never got to share. 1) Onza by MUT Delicious looking pieces of ceramic chocolate make up MUT‘s Onza collection designed … Continue reading 4 Weird and Wonderful tiles ranges we never got to share
A couple more curiosities from cyberspace for ceramic-loving civilians. 1) Triennale This iconic ‘four curve’ puzzle piece style tile was designed by Gio Ponti and Alberto Rosselli in the 60s. We’ve seen quite a bit of it amongst Marazzi‘s designs, especially it’s colour-blocked varieties, but marble effects, patchworks patterns, terrazzo style, and more make it worth a mention in our curiosities. 2) Ogi Matcha Gloss … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities III
These curious commemorative Covid Relief Tiles from New York Tilemakers may seem a strange response to the pandemic, but despite their likeness to the virus they are actually quite lovely. Made of glazed earthenware, and using the same process the Tilemakers use for their other tiles, two forms of these Covid-inspired creations are offered – the tiles (8″ to 9” in diameter) and the standing … Continue reading Curious Covid Creations
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. With FRACTILE this effect is provided by the shapes, material, and … Continue reading Fractal Forms
Waste is an unfortunate reality for the majority of industries, which is why at Diary of a Tile Addict we love to highlight companies and creatives seeking to minimise or re-use waste. The ceramic industry has its own share of waste related issues but Chinese company Bentu Design is determined to highlight this whilst producing a series of functional objects. Plates, mugs, bowls, and figurines … Continue reading Wrecked furniture but not as you know it
