Art and Artists, Glass Mosaics, Mosaics & Glass Tiles, Murals, Public Art, Restaurant Interiors, Street Art, United Kingdom, Weird & Wonderful

Organic Originality

Emma Bioggs is a professional mosaic artist acknowledged for her complete mastery of colour and pattern. While she began as a fabricator and mosaic maker for architectural contexts, her personal work has increasingly focused on material culture and the social history of making. Continue reading Organic Originality

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Repeat patterns based on Classic Flowers

Art and Artists, Artisanal Tiles, Bathrooms, Coloured Tiles, English Tiles, Floral Tiles, Geometric tiles, Hand-made Tiles, Kitchens, Murals, New Tile Designs, Production Technology, splashbacks, Tile Designers, Tiled Interiors, United Kingdom, Wall Tiles

Panels of Perfection

Sharon Jones is a true hand-made tile pioneer. Using white English earthenware clay, each piece is rolled into a slab, cut to shape with a potters’ knife and hand-glazed using Jones’ own unique recipes. Continue reading Panels of Perfection

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Art and Artists, Artisanal Tiles, Hand-made Tiles, Heritage, Majolica, Spain, Tile Designers

Catalan Culture Captured

Near Barcelona there is a a small group of artists called BenSu that still decorate tiles by hand using the Majolica Method. Three different types of clay bisque are used, coated with an opaque glaze-base, hand decorated and then fired at 980ºC. Continue reading Catalan Culture Captured

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Coloured Tiles, External Tiling, Floor Tiles, Glazed Tiles, Heritage, Kitchens, Living Rooms, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Spain, Stone-effect Tiles, Terrazzo, Tile Designers, Tile Technology, tile trend, Tiled Interiors, Wall Tiles

Pure Peronda

At Cevisama 2016, Museum, Harmony and Peronda all offered cutting edge designs; many of which were the best examples of their type on the show floor. Continue reading Pure Peronda

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Brazil, Coloured Tiles, Glazed Tiles, Marketing, New Tile Designs, Showrooms, Tile Technology, Triangular Tiles, Wall Tiles

Triangular Temptation

Portinari’s Connect collection, which won the Best in Show Award at Revestir, created much entertainment with triangular-shaped tiles which people could move and place on a magnetic board to create different tile installations. A clever video was shown on a loop to market this simple but clever concept. Continue reading Triangular Temptation

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Coloured Tiles, Floor Tiles, Heritage, Porcelain Tiles, Spain, Terrazzo, Tile Designers, Tile Technology, tile trend, Tiled Interiors

Fluorite Fashion

Inalco’s Fluorite is a new porcelain tile collection inspired by the terrazzo floors of yesteryear, but one with an innovative revamped air. The range was developed in collaboration with Katty Schiebeck. This talented young designer has delivered a collection offering neutral tones, plus white, black, blue and green, that delivers harmony and balance. Continue reading Fluorite Fashion

diaryofatileaddictApril 19, 2017March 9, 2019Leave a comment

External Tiling, Floor Tiles, Italy, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Stone-effect Tiles, Tiled Interiors, Wall Tiles

Rock Redefined

Waterfall by Lea Ceramiche realistically and physically represents slate.   Recreating, on the stoneware surface, the iridescence typical of sedimentary rocks, Waterfall has surface texture, pattern irregularities and variations in colour; all natural expressions of the passage of time. Continue reading Rock Redefined

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Floor Tiles, Italy, Stone Tiles, Stone-effect Tiles, Wall Tiles

Signature Stones

It is rare that you come across a new range of ceramic tiles so squarely set up for the UK market as CoEm’s Brit Stone. Continue reading Signature Stones

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Floor Tiles, Italy, Kitchens, Living Rooms, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Tiled Interiors, Wood-effect Tiles

Timber Typologies

At Coverings, CIR Ceramiche presented Alaska and Kentucky, two exclusive interpretations of the charm of wooden flooring, ideal for creating elegant, original floors. Continue reading Timber Typologies

diaryofatileaddictApril 15, 2017June 5, 2017Leave a comment

Bazillion Apartment, Vilinius by YCL Studio

Architecture, Ceramic Screens, Coloured Tiles, Floor Tiles, Germany, Kitchens, Living Rooms, Terracotta, Tiled Interiors

Dualistic Design

At the Bazillion Apartment, Vilinius, Lithuania, YCL Studio drew a clear line between day and night, while simultaneously blurring the conventional division between ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ parts of the dwelling. Continue reading Dualistic Design

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3D tiles, Floor Tiles, Italy, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Tile Designers, Tiled Interiors

Strange Superimpositions

I want to draw attention to Filigrane, the latest decoration from Lea Ceramiche designed by Philippe Nigro. This design is based on a regular geometric pattern of iridescent effects that extends outwards randomly like the characteristic veining of fine marble. Continue reading Strange Superimpositions

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Coloured Tiles, Floor Tiles, Glazed Tiles, Italy, New Tile Designs, Porcelain Tiles, Tiled Interiors

Moody Blues

Materia by NovaBell offers all the beauty of hand-made terracotta. It does not seek to imitate; rather it has redesigned a collection that recalls the past for contemporary spaces. Continue reading Moody Blues

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