Drostle in Detail
Gary Drostle is an award-winning mosaic artist who has created numerous large scale commissions across the UK and beyond. Continue reading Drostle in Detail
Category: Mosaics & Glass Tiles
Determinedly Delft
Delft’s old railway station has been repurposed. The end product is an architectural beauty, with an eye-catching use of ceramic. The construction site was off limits to the public but when everything was ready, and Delft’s new railway station opened its doors, it was instantly clear that the architecture firm Mecanoo had pulled out all the stops. The determination to maintain the historic legacy of … Continue reading Determinedly Delft
Viva Viva
At Friday’s Tile Association Awards – the most prestigious annual event for the UK tiling industry – the title of Tile Fixer of the Year was awarded to Sharon Taylor of Viva Tiling, who took up tiling following redundancy in 2007. Continue reading Viva Viva
Sizzling SomerTile
At ICFF 2017 in New York City, SomerTile will be displaying many exciting new product lines for 2017, including some of the stunning new collections from leading Spanish manufacturer Peronda. Continue reading Sizzling SomerTile
Trencadis Treatment
Miriam Alia has created an elegant and dreamy living room for Westwing at Casa Decor using a Vives trencadis effect tile as a key component of her chic, romantic and cutting edge interior. Continue reading Trencadis Treatment
The Pull Factor
Through creativity, technology and experimentation Sicis has developed an extensive portfolio of mosaic products that are used in prestigious projects across the world. Typical is the new collection of micro-mosaic door and furniture pulls. Continue reading The Pull Factor
Whiteness, Warp & Weft
White in the City will explore whiteness in all its chromatic and symbolic possibilities using mosaics: Mosaico+’s updated 10 by 10mm Fabric tesserae and the Pulsar collection designed for the company by Giugiaro Design. Continue reading Whiteness, Warp & Weft
Mosaic Masterclass
Spanish manufacturer Reviglass the material for students at Escola Massana to create striking murals in 25 by 25mm glass mosaic tiles. Continue reading Mosaic Masterclass
Pothole Parade
Around five years ago, Jim Bachor began filling potholes in his home city of Chicago with a mosaic modelled on the official Chicago flag but with the word Pothole through the middle. Continue reading Pothole Parade
Magical Myaamia
Based upon Myaamia, an original painting by Santos Mendez named after a Native American Algonquian language spoken by the Seminole Indians, the mosaic mural at TD Bank, Florida, reflects harmony and friendship among all living creatures. Continue reading Magical Myaamia
Luminescent Lunada Bay
Lunada Bay Tile designs and produces hand-crafted glass, ceramic, pewter, stone and wood tiles with the emphasis on simplicity, texture and colour. Continue reading Luminescent Lunada Bay
Tribal Tonality
Mosaico+’s Africa Now concept features bold graphic motifs and colourful geometries inspired by the designs and weaves of African fabrics reinterpreted in a modern key. Continue reading Tribal Tonality
Cool Cubes
Dent Cube, designed by Teruo Yasuda for Inax, is a 3D wall tile range that combine glass and porcelain at different depths. It was inspired by masu: cube-shaped wooden vessels, made without the use of nails, that have been used in Japan for holding sake for over 1300 years. Continue reading Cool Cubes
Winning Ways With Waterjet
Approximately 15,000 sq. feet of waterjet-cut natural stone was specified for Mohegan Sun’s flooring. The stone variants included Royal Red Onyx, Jerusalem Gold, Emperador Light, St Laurent Brown, Thassos White and Nero Marquina. Continue reading Winning Ways With Waterjet
Trencadis Torchbearers
Trencadis is on trend right now. With terrazzo also enjoying a period of rebirth and reinvention, it is clear that the creative freedom afforded by irregular mosaic effects, and inclusions of different colours and shapes, is proving irresistible to today’s designers. Continue reading Trencadis Torchbearers
Liliputian Lancamentos
Altas has created miniature mosaic installations that would be very effective as showroom displays. Continue reading Liliputian Lancamentos
Portinari Presents
Portinari launched several eye-catching new ranges at Revestir 2017. Continue reading Portinari Presents
Striking Snowbird
The Cliff Lodge ski resort in Utah decided to create an Aspen tree motif on two large wall mosaics, one in the ballroom lobby, and the other in the ballroom mezzanine, each thirty feet wide by four feet high and consisting of over 166,000 individual vitreous glass mosaic pieces each. Continue reading Striking Snowbird
Mosaic Movement
Melanie Watts create stunning mosaic murals for a public art project raising awareness of endangered species. Watts has recently created a stunning glass mosaic of an endangered white barn owl for the Gyosei Art Trail on the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes. Continue reading Mosaic Movement
Intrepid Invader
Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 8-bit video games. His work is composed of ceramic tile murals installed in urban locations. Continue reading Intrepid Invader