Last, but by no means least, the final addition to our month of companies and creatives – Lofa Ceramics. Making small batch, high fired ceramics to order in Guadalajara, Mexico, Lofa Ceramics offers sculptural pieces rich with character, texture, and style. Striking glaze effects and uniquely curated colour schemes decorate the 3D shapes and unusual forms with charming imperfections, varied tones, and matt/gloss details giving … Continue reading Lofa Ceramics
Lili Cement have previously brought us such wonderful creations as the Canine collection featuring pop art style doggy portraits and the elegantly animal-forward designs by Adam Trest and their fabulous collabs keep coming. Their recent collaboration with artist and illustrator Mary Engelbreit offers a trio of distinct and characterful patterns, each with its own unique attitude and vibe. Iconic sits alongside Hounds (from the Adam … Continue reading Lili Cement Collabs
For floral fanatics and those that marvel at murals Original Style‘s Living collection is one to explore. Seventeen unique patterns designed and printed in the heart of Devon offer up a fantasy of flowers and a few features to furnish you space with details and delights. Nine floral designs including wildflower gardenscapes and delicate silhouettes make up the statement wallpaper effects with varying shades found … Continue reading Living Tiles
Offering up a finishing flourish with boundless beauty to behold, Bert & May‘s Borders cement collection is one for the books. Six distinctive designs in smoky grey and stony white make up the range. A simple half and half stripe, a tri-tonal top and tailed triple stripe, and a diamond ad stripe combo design are the more classic options of the set. Briging something much … Continue reading The Border tiles of your dreams
Introducing a brand-new lava-inspired collection to their range of sustainable tiles Labha is Alusid‘s latest. Made from 91% recycled materials each piece is unique. Subtle tonal and textural variations create a wonderfully organic look completed with a semi-matt glaze to capture and soften light. Each piece is framed with darker shades, emphasising grout lines and creating a faded effect. Three colours are available – White, … Continue reading Look out for Labha
Haustile are collab queens. Their previous design collaborations with Dani Dazey of Dazey LA, and Daren Thomas Magee of Real Fun, WOW! brought us incredible creations such as Spotlight and In the Prism. And now there’s a whole new bunch of tiles to enjoy as we welcome their most recent selection of Bold, Durable, and Never Boring porcelain pieces. Created with Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Zander Schlacter, … Continue reading Haustile x Zander Schlacter
Clay Imports are coming in strong with another fabulous collaboration. Created by print and textile designer Shadé Akanbi, their new Daedream Series is a magical amalgam of African-inspired patterns presented with a contemporary twist. In both a 6″ by 6″ relief and 8″ by 8″ printed pattern clay tile in matt and glossy glazes, Daedream offers options for all forms of interior and exterior design … Continue reading Daedream Delights
Marked with natural imperfections, decorated with carvings, and shapes in formats both little and large, textured stone offers a deep seam to mine when it comes to tile design. These are the few I collected at Cersaie. Alchemy and Deco Pierre Irregularly ridged with scored lines, Peronda‘s Alchemy and Porcelanosa‘s Deco Pierre take a similar approach to adding texture to stone. Subtle veins can be … Continue reading Cersaie’s Textured Stone
I thought I’d kick off my Cersaie content with a distinctive tile design I saw on stand after stand. As I usually collect some of the more interesting wood-look tiles I find throughout the show, I’d already photographed three similar-looking slat-effect designs when it became a bit of a game to see where they would appear next. At least 21 stands/companies carried a range I’d … Continue reading The wood-look that was everywhere at Cersaie
We’re suckers for any tile design that incorporates grout into its decor and we’ve got one to share today. Taking its name from the decorative border that frames clothes, furnishings, and faces, Fringe is a tile range that makes the most of parallel lines, offering order and symmetry with flair. Designed by Michael Anastassiades for Mutina, Fringe plays with borders with the two patterns – … Continue reading Feature Fringe
Launched at this year’s Clerkenwell and spreading joy wherever they land, the joyful debut tile collection by British artist Yinka Ilori is one for the books. Made in collaboration with Domus, the handmade Glaze range features 16 joyful colours and five modular shapes designed to be used alone or to create dopamine-boosting kaleidoscopic designs full of vibrancy and vim. The glossy ceramic surface lightly varies … Continue reading Yinka Ilori x Domus
Delighted by last years release of a tile collection by the great colour master Adam Nathaniel Furman, I was even more excited to learn that a new collection was on its way. And finally it’s here! Paying homage to Italian painting style La Figura Serpentinata painting, Furman’s new Salomè ceramic tiles twist and turn like the curving of a snake or the shape of a … Continue reading Slithering Salomè
Chamotte, otherwise known as grog or firesand, is the name given to crushed ceramics used to strengthen clay mixtures and create a rugged, gritty texture. And thats exactly what Chamotte gives us. Designed by tile visionary Patricia Urquiola for Mutina, Chamotte places hand-made rustica front and centre with pits and ripples texturing the surface and catching the glossy glaze in irregular patterns. Three variants add … Continue reading Craggy Chamotte
Black, scratched charcoal graphics form the fabulous decors of Ceramica Fioranese‘s Riggiole collection. Designed with a hand-crafted look, the patterns feature irregularities and imperfections in their shade and shape, adding an organic feel to interiors and a touch of the old world. The decorative motifs have been created with both repeat patterns and patchwork mixing in mind, and offering up a dual sense of tradition … Continue reading Charming Charcoal
In collaboration with Ca’ Pietra, London-based homeware designer Clarissa Hulse has created a number of delightful tile designs. Taking notes from nature and making motifs from the shapes and silhouettes of wildflowers, leaves, and jungle foliage, Hulse’s collections are dainty, delicate, and charmingly colourful. Wild Botanical features cleavers, Queen Anne’s Lace, ivy, and a whole lot more in light shades of Pink, deep Blue, and … Continue reading A rainforest and a few wildflower meadows
Rounding off our Cevisama Curiosities is a selection of our absolute favourites from the show. Full of texture, glaze effects, shapes, and joy, these tiles all sit somewhere special in the Curiosities hierarchy. Coming as a twosome, Kyoto and Arco from Natucer are a pair of tiles that took our tile-addicted breath away. The metallic sheen from the Raku glaze, the intriguing colours, and the … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: The Favourites
A continuation of our wood-look curiosities comes today with five more magnificent creations from Cevisama. Amongst the soft neutrals, floral, and tropical wallpaper effects of APE Grupo‘s Raw collection we found Tarima Cotton. Interspersed with strips of cement-look, stripes of wood-effect offer up an unusual take on Tarima (pallet). A more scattergun approach to wood placement than Vives‘ New York tiles, London forgoes ordered rows … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: Wood II
An exhibition round-up wouldn’t be complete without a little look at the wood-effect tiles on offer. Although there were fewer than we’ve seen on previous years at Cevisama, there were still some unique designs worth sharing. Ceracasa‘s Deco Forest collection features four distinct inlaid wood-effect patterns in a tri-tonal style. Mixing a pale pine, warm honey-toned oak shades, and a darker walnut, Deco Forest plays … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: Wood
Today it’s all about the curious collection of pattern pick n mix from Cevisama. From florals to Fibonacci, these marvellous motifs made our trip a whole lot more fun. Partnering vintage florals, watercolour flowers, and art nouveau fans, Decocer‘s Bouquet collection in green and blue offers up a party of mix and match potential. Decorated with unusual zig-zags, warm tones, and irregular lines, Aparici‘s Crea … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: Pick n Mix
Today’s family of Curiosities are all a little pink. Muted but earthy, calming yet colourful, these tiles all have shades of pink in common, each presenting them in unique, textured ways. This wall of curated earth tones and neutrals was a show highlight for me, purely because of the colours selected. Decocer‘s elongated metro Harlem tiles come in 11 colours including blues, greens, and greys, … Continue reading Cevisama Curiosities: Pinkish
