Following on from FUGA, Studio Irvine offers another curious combination of fluidity and rigidity. Blending the two, the designers create a surface that can adapt to any location with a look that is not quite tile, but not quite anything else. Exit’s modular system is comprised of pointed arrow forms in either yellow, red, or grey terracotta. Between each of these elements sits the raw … Continue reading Elegant Exit
If there’s one creation that brings the magic of ceramics to life, it’s the BBQ’d tiles from Granby. Systems of glazing and decorating tiles have been developed over centuries, investigating the many ways heat, clay, pigments, and minerals react with one another and sometimes you really have to see it to believe it. Continue reading BBQ Smoked
Working alongside the company’s initiatives to support National Tile Day in the USA, on 28th February Daltile posted up a great blog titled Reasons Tile Flooring is the Right Choice. Continue reading Five Features by Daltile
Lapicida, which offers a wide selection of original antique terracotta tiles, salvaged from 18th and 19th Century buildings, mainly in France, reports that terracotta floors are now gracing some of the smartest interiors with their warm, natural appeal. The epitome of relaxed living, they come in a wide range of pinks, reds and creams – reflecting the clays native to the regions from which they hail. Continue reading Trending: Antique Terracotta
Almaviva is a Paris-based tile atelier that makes Delft tiles, azulejo panels and hand-made glazed tiles. The studio’s specialties also include Italian Renaissance majolica tiles, medieval pavements, Iznik panels and Islamic tiles, including zellige. The clay is stamped by hand and the decoration hand-painted with natural oxides. Continue reading Paris-based Ceramic Custodians
En Avant is a new series of clay paintings by Robert Dawson, which draw from the visual language and stylised motifs of Gothic Revival architect A.W.N. Pugin. Dawson reimagines Pugin’s designs from both the Shrine of St Augustine, Ramsgate, and The Grange, Pugin’s family home. Continue reading Robert Dawson: En Avant
Frauwein Soenveld, working from Atelier Het Blauwe Hek, is one of the world’s foremost tile artists, designing and producing hand-made tiles and tile tableaux characterised by their distinct colour palette and unique design and style. Continue reading Dutch Master
Renowned Italian chef Italo Bassi has specified Neolith Calacatta Gold for the wall cladding, worktops and flooring of his new ConFusion restaurant in Sardinia. Continue reading Calacatta ConFusion
Marianne Smink designs and makes screen-printed ceramic tiles, and digitally-printed wallpapers. Her aim is to achieve beauty through the inherent imperfection of hand-made work, drawing on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi. Continue reading Inherent Imperfection
Diana Hall has perfected the manufacture of inlaid tiles. Inlaid tiles are similar to encaustic tiles; with slip inlaid into a hand-pressed clay body. Continue reading Medieval Mastery
At Kitchen & Bathroom Expo 2005, RAK introduced Venus; the second new line of tiles and sanitaryware designed exclusively for RAK by celebrity designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. I interviewed interviewed Llewelyn-Bowen to find out more about this project and his take on ceramic tiles in general. Joe: To what extent is Venus your creation? LL-B: As a rule, I won’t put my name to anything unless … Continue reading Looking Down on the Box
Ten years ago art teacher Mark Aldridge decided to change careers, taking his art to the nation in the form of hand painted tiles. Then based in Stamford, Lincolnshire, the Fine Art graduate took on a small industrial unit and started from scratch; making the tiles by hand, decorating them with his own glazes, then completing them with fine drawings of flora and fauna before firing. Continue reading There’s No Smoke Without Fire
