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Art and Artists, Design, Tile Designers

Studio Lucy McMillan

Preserving the primitive soul of hand moulded clay, New Zealand artist Lucy McMillan creates captivating sculptures, objects, and tiles rich with character. Crafted either from slab or press moulds, textural layers are added through whittling, engraving, or collaging to form dynamic, multidimensional, and visually surprising pieces. Inspired by 17th century agateware, each tile is wholly unique with waving, marble-like patterns mixing tone, and artistic flairs … Continue reading Studio Lucy McMillan

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Architecture, Architecture & Interiors

Clad in clay

Clay-loving Kengo Kuma creates a captivating curiosity to contain an art museum showcasing the ceramic culture in China’s ceramic capital. The UCCA Clay Museum, located in Yixing in the southern Jiangsu province, was inspired by the nearby Shushan Mountain and designed to resemble a towering pile of pottery, paying homage to the location’s history of purple clay pottery production. Arched gaps integrate the unusual building with its … Continue reading Clad in clay

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Solus Dreadnought
Brick Tiles, Design & Technology, Design Weeks & More

Solus’s sensational brick bonanza

Clerkenwell Design Week served up a smorgasbord of ceramic surprises this year, but none were quite as tasty as Solus’s sensorial spread of Ketley bricks.  One of the UK’s leading tile distributors, Solus UK teamed up with architectural practice Szczepaniak Astridge to create a sensory architectural installation in the company’s strategically-located London showroom.  Sensory architecture explores the potential of non-visual acuities, not to the detriment … Continue reading Solus’s sensational brick bonanza

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Design & Technology, Tile Companies, Tile Designers

Clay Squared to Infinity

There is no end to the amount of incredible tiles out there. It seems as if each day we are finding something or someone new, and its almost always worth sharing. And today we’ve got our eye on another company. Based in Minneapolis, Clay Squared‘s artist hub creates a range of handmade tiles in all sorts of shapes and sizes, patterns and glazes, as well … Continue reading Clay Squared to Infinity

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Arto Brick

For our third installment of the week we’re looking at a company we have mentioned very briefly before in Doggy Décor. But now they’ll get all the attention they deserve as we take a closer look, and formally introduce you to Arto Brick. The company’s founder Arto Alajian was born in Alexandria, Egypt and classically trained in the arts. When the Egyptian revolution began Arto … Continue reading Arto Brick

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Design & Technology, Design Delights, Tile Companies, Tile Designers

The Brilliance of Black Dog

It’s important to us here at Diary of a Tile Addict to make space for every and anyone who creates, enjoys, and adds to the tile world. To fulfil that we spend quite some time searching for smaller tile companies that can get buried below large manufacturers and well-known names. Our monthly round-ups of companies to keep an eye on adds to this exposure, but … Continue reading The Brilliance of Black Dog

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Design & Technology, Design Delights, Motifs & Materials, Tile Designers

Tajimi Custom Tiles

Tajimi Custom Tiles seeks to put creativity and tile design into its customers’ hands. Displaying some of their incredible pieces with a huge variety of effects, colours, and shapes Tajimi shows just a little of what they are capable of. Tajimi is named after the centre of the Japanese tile industry, Tajimi City. With that they offer traditional craftsmanship, honed over centuries. Made in Japan, … Continue reading Tajimi Custom Tiles

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Art and Artists, Design & Technology

Brooklyn-Based Barnett

Heritage, world travel, natural materials and a West African vision take form in the work of multidisciplinary artist Malene Barnett. Expressing the modern black experience within her art, Barnett uses both her work and influence to create and improve discourse on marginalisation within the arts. Founding the Black Artists + Designers Guild, Barnett offers a platform for black design professionals, providing exposure as well as … Continue reading Brooklyn-Based Barnett

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Architecture & Interiors

La Sastrería’s Stunning Interior

This fantastically tiled restaurant with an equally magnificent bar is a Tile Addict’s dream. Designed by a favourite of ours – Masquespacio – these spaces in La Sastrería in Valencia have taken tile to dizzying heights. With the help of Grupo Gastroadictos, the gastronomic dream of chef Sergio Giraldo and bartender Cristóbal Bouchet has come alive. Starting with the bar, slanted metro tiles in a … Continue reading La Sastrería’s Stunning Interior

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Design & Technology, Design Delights, Motifs & Materials, Tile Designers

Stone Squar[e]

These 3D tiles break the abstract line between interior decor and art. Desiring to produce a collection that offers this artistic freedom to consumers, Italian designer Giovanni Barbieri makes use of relief for his Squar tiles. With an unusual cracked-effect creating levels of shadow and juxtaposed with plain flat tiles, Squar[e] offers a little mystique. In a sequence of supposedly random shapes, Squar[e] produces a … Continue reading Stone Squar[e]

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Minimale Arazzi Matteo Brioni Studio Irvine clay panels
Design Delights, Iconic Designs

Cloaked in Clay

This bespoke new panel system from Matteo Brioni makes marvelous use of clay. Company research into the use of clay and the artistic direction of Studio Irvine architect Marialaura Rossiell led to the creation of Arazzi – inspired by tapestries and re-imagined into a modern system. Arazzi is designed as a modular system of panels that can be formed and arranged to create personal and … Continue reading Cloaked in Clay

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