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Eleanor Meredith

Working from her studio in East Neuk of Fife in Scotland, Eleanor Meredith crafts wonderful watercolours, whimsical ceramic sculptures, artistic tableware, and bespoke tiles. Ambiguous florals, sketched portraits, and playful colour bursts feature as decors throughout her creations. A family of patterned animals proudly wear these designs, amongst which you’ll be delighted to find wobbly lions, chunky penguins, leggy zebras, and adorably malformed leopards alongside … Continue reading Eleanor Meredith

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Haus of Lucy

An era mishmash features throughout the artworks of Haus of Lucy with reimagined figurines blending old with new and artfully embellished prints adding contemporary details to historic scenes – think George Washington with hair rollers, classic art meets Adidas, or Edwardian children huffing NOS. Continuing this playful theme, traditional Delft meets modern whimsy in a duo of Haus of Lucy tile collections. The hand painted … Continue reading Haus of Lucy

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Margate’s Minnie Mae

Match your dishes to your tiles with the wonderfully whimsical designs of Minnie Mae. Blending aesthetics from the UK, Italy, and Greece, these Margate made homewares are choc full of charm. Mini columns made for candles, decorative veggies, and uniquely playful plates and bowls form a joyful collection of items to fill your home with creativity. And for the Tile Addicts among us there are … Continue reading Margate’s Minnie Mae

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Kraftsol

A plethora of patterns for patchwork perfection make up the creative catalogue of Moroccan company Kraftsol. With styles that track trends and motifs with a timeless soul, Kraftsol’s cement tiles are made for all. Classic waves, geometrics, and half-moons form their traditional offerings – a tasteful group of old school aesthetics in neutral tones, whilst a few circles, wave designs, and splatter effects offer retro … Continue reading Kraftsol

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Glazentile

Adding yet again to our never ending list of tile companies and delightful patterns, today we’re talking Glazentile. Sharing a passion for authenticity in design, skilled craftsmanship, and the endless possibilities afforded by creativity, the husband and wife team behind Glazentile work with master artisans to create a collection of cement, zellige, and bejmat tiles that blend tradition with modernity. With classic Arabesque patterns like … Continue reading Glazentile

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Popham x Mapoesie

Despite featuring their tiles in countless Interior inspo posts, Cyberspace Curiosities, and trends pieces, we’ve somehow never actually given the wonderful Popham Design an article of its own. But today that changes. Collaborating with luxury French lifestyle brand Mapoésie, Popham Design presents a trio of colourful abstract patterns – Calice, Nazaré, and Celeste. The curious curves of Calice take their inspiration from chain mail, and … Continue reading Popham x Mapoesie

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Nok and Dandy

Mixing marble-effects in shades of smoky Black, off White, and inky Green, 41zero42‘s new Dandy collection offers magical patterns for moody interiors. Dramatic zig-zags, playful daisies, sharp contrast, and more intricate geometric motifs make up the six strong selection of designs. Made as a pick and mix amongst patterns and shade, Dandy creates endless opportunities for customising interiors. With matching Mr and Mrs multi-dimensional accent … Continue reading Nok and Dandy

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Emu Tile

Today’s tile company is a one woman show. Ran by a single employee for 20 years, Emu Tile‘s large collection is fully imagined, shaped, and glazed by founder Emily Margaret Ulm. Featuring adorable florals, classic motifs, bugs, wildlife, and plants, Emu Tile’s many designs are made to function as stand alone mini artworks or freckled into a large scale installation. With sizes ranging from tiny … Continue reading Emu Tile

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Assemble Algae

We’re no strangers to an algae/surface crossover. We’ve seen the curvaceous creations from Julia Lohmann, we’ve seen tiles injected with algae for water filtration from The Bio-Integrated Design Lab, we’ve seen roofs made of seaweed thatch by Kathryn Larsen, we’ve seen tiles made to house algae, and we’ve seen the varied colour profiles of waterborne algae used in Atelier Luma’s Algae Platform tiles. And today we’re adding … Continue reading Assemble Algae

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Anastasia Ropalo

Using tiles as her canvas, Anastasia Ropalo adds brilliantly detailed florals and geometrics to ceramic and wood, forming unique surfaces for highly decorative furnishings. Each stem, bud, petal, curve, and diamond is lined with tiny dots to create an elegant sense of movement and subtle texture. Both flowy, continuous William Morris-esque designs and playful patchworks form Ropalo’s extensive portfolio. These hand painted tiles are then … Continue reading Anastasia Ropalo

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Saving with Spolia

Absorbing demolition waste from the UK, this new terrazzo surface from Solus Ceramics offers a new life to all sorts of materials. A full range of Spolia’s 21 standard colours in two formats (300 by 300 by 25mm and 600 by 600 by 22mm) enables cohesion across projects, with tonal families including smoky greys, off-whites, and surprising speckles in unexpected shades. But what makes Spolia … Continue reading Saving with Spolia

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A futuristic fusion

Floating in with a multi-dimensional tile/art futuristic fusion, Hungarian brand Cavaril‘s Geomo 026 is serving relief like no other. Experimenting with a double-stuffed design, Geomo 026’s is made in two layers; a pocked and dotted base and a 3D angular accent. Four individual tiles (A1, A2, B1, and B2) make up the building blocks of the collection where mixing and matching amongst them showcase their … Continue reading A futuristic fusion

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Wavy Wonders

Partnering with Giovanni De Maio for a fabulous collection ripe with ripples, Cristina Celestino brings the tile world yet another gorgeous range of unique ceramic creations with Abaco Celeste. Richly pigmented in ocean blues, punchy corals, and vibrant oranges, five personalities – Helios, Graph, Thalassa, Peploe, and Chloris – make up the collection, bringing forward their unique takes on a wavy aesthetic. Helios, available in … Continue reading Wavy Wonders

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Grout play tiles from Mercury Mosaics

Letting grout play a pivotal role in design, these three tile ranges from Mercury Mosaics offer space and shapes to be filled in with classic neutrals or vibrant colour. Rise A set of simple split rectangles sitting two by three on a mosaic mesh, Rise gives us sleek geometry in four colours – a clear glossy Black, a metallic matte Steel, a smoky duo Midnight … Continue reading Grout play tiles from Mercury Mosaics

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Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

Clay Imports welcomes another wonderful collection to the tile world with their new collaboration with Davey McEathron and Rebecca Holliday of Rock Paper Build. Finding inspiration in Mexican city San Miguel de Allende and on the motifs of cowboy boots, Rock Paper Build have created four designs – Bayas, Naranjas, Conectada, and Pomelo – with an enticingly retro aesthetic. These motifs decorate a selection of … Continue reading Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

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Wilder’s Waves

With colour, joy, whimsy, and endless half-moons, designer Aimée Wilder‘s tile collections are sure to inspire. Waves in playful shades, versatile geometrics, and a few unique takes on terrazzo, this extensive catalogue of designs takes a trip away from tradition to bring us a range of finishes solidly in the 21st Century. Wilder’s choices of colour and contrast emphasise the wobbling shapes, offering a highly … Continue reading Wilder’s Waves

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The Italian Collection

Maitland & Poate add another fabulous range to their expansive collection with a new retro collaboration. The new addition – The Italian Collection – was created by design journalist and interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth who founded Mad About the House. Taking inspiration from her recent Italian home renovation, the collection’s colourways reflect some of the 300-year-old property’s original features with unusual, rich, and lovely combos. … Continue reading The Italian Collection

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Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

Teeny tiny tiles tastefully adorned with hearts, leaves, squiggles, and apples take the stage today as we cover the adorable decors of Blatherwick Ceramics. Found on a scout about the internet, Buxton-based Blatherwick Ceramics sits proudly amongst the artisans on Etsy with artist Sue offering up her handmade slip decorated ceramic creations. Plates, mugs, dishes, and brooches add to the artsy ranks, with five collections … Continue reading Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

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Dazed and Glazed

As the son of a potter, Oregon-based creative Brett Stern has always been drawn to the magic of clay. Now a self-proclaimed alchemist, Stern uses “colour, temperature, and time” as his ingredients, producing wacky, wonderful, bubbly beauties for Dazed and Glazed. Using an innovative process to fuse a thin veneer of glass onto a ceramic tile surface an unusual foamy look is created with patterns … Continue reading Dazed and Glazed

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Creating Crumbles

Offering a modern perspective on a historic material, Italian research hub Terraformæ seeks to push the boundaries of terracotta to produce fresh surface solutions full of organic charm. One of these surface solutions blends two timeless favourites – terrazzo and terracotta. Designed by Sveva Bizzotto, Terraformæ’s Crumbles utilises production scraps, such as glass and cryolite, to form the freckling flecks that give it its terrazzo-like … Continue reading Creating Crumbles

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