Senio Sashays Hot Hues
One of the leading lights in small formats, Ceramica Senio, has just presented a new collection – Mediterranea – inspired by the evocative colours of the Mediterranean landscapes. Continue reading Senio Sashays Hot Hues
Tag: Glazed Tiles
Church Cladding Complexity
The Church of the Misericordia in Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, Italy, one of the winners of the Adi Ceramics Design Award at Cersaie 2014, features a ceramic façade built up using tridimensional hexagonal glazed cotto tiles developed by Tagina. Continue reading Church Cladding Complexity
Mission Accomplished
Being Bellavita means being the type of company that is able to consistently sustain focus, energy, creativity, and commitment in order to improve the lives and businesses of everyone we work with. Continue reading Mission Accomplished
Mexican Tsunami
In 2015, Vitromex had installed production capacity in excess of 56,000,000 sq. metres. And they have clearly kicked on since then! Continue reading Mexican Tsunami
Colourful Compositions
The new May range from Iris comes in an eclectic palette of 11 colours, including Mediterranean hues – White, Graphite, Brown, Beige, Amber, Azure, Grey, Olive, Fern, Red and Bordeaux. Continue reading Colourful Compositions
Tile Tourism
Palazzo Morelli offers a catalogue of Italian surfaces; with terracotta sitting alongside marble and other stones, onyx and semi-precious stones, mother-of-pearl and wood. Continue reading Tile Tourism
Floral Felicitations
A beautiful new collection of softly sophisticated glazed tiles, inspired by iconic British gardens and the historic market towns of Suffolk, has been introduced by The Winchester Tile Company: an Original Style’s brand. Continue reading Floral Felicitations
WOW: What a Website!
Besso Ceramique is a small artisanal producer of hand-made ceramic wall tiles situated near Dinan in Brittany, France. With collections divided into brushwork, black & white, earth shades, and sea & sky, Besso has produced an informative, inspirational and truly fantastic tile retail website. Continue reading WOW: What a Website!
Familial Flourishes
Carefully-controlled modernisation of the production processes, has allowed Giovanni de Maio to expand from an artisanal operation into a craft-based industry. Continue reading Familial Flourishes
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
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
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
Elemental Extrusions
At Coverings 2017 Natucer showed off the ultimate aesthetic possibilities of extruded ceramic wall tile with its Escama collection comprising Art, Caprice and Riad designs. Continue reading Elemental Extrusions
Natucer Naturally
Natucer is something of a one off. The company’s use of extruded clay techniques mean that is is able to offer 3D shapes, moulded pieces and textures that few other manufacturers can emulate. Continue reading Natucer Naturally
Luminescent Lunada Bay
Lunada Bay Tile designs and produces hand-crafted glass, ceramic, pewter, stone and wood tiles with the emphasis on simplicity, texture and colour. Continue reading Luminescent Lunada Bay
The Terminus: Total Tiling
The Porto Pojana project used ceramic tiles as the basic element in an effective yet innovative design. Drawing on the tradition of fishmongers, the revisited modern style plays with the shades of thousands of 3D tiles that cover the walls. Continue reading The Terminus: Total Tiling
Counterfeit Ceramicist
Diogo Machado – aka Add Fuel – is a Portuguese artist, a highly skillful illusionist with an untreatable case of tile addiction; a street artist with a sideways sense of humour and much to say about perception, value and media. Continue reading Counterfeit Ceramicist
Destination Deruta
Roberto Domiziani is often credited with inventing the Italian Volcanic Stone Table, as it is known today. He has taken these products to a level of sophistication, elegance and quality that rivals the masterpieces of the Renaissance. Continue reading Destination Deruta
Rapid Retrospective
Back in 2012, Spanish tile manufacturers were at the cutting edge of a craft revival; offering ceramic products recreating the aesthetic nuances of time-honoured artisans adapted to the latest manufacturing technologies. Continue reading Rapid Retrospective
Four Hundred Rabbits
The use of colourful, small format, tiles from Solus Ceramics has brought a sense of style and individuality to Four Hundred Rabbits; a new sour dough pizzeria in Crystal Palace, South East London. Continue reading Four Hundred Rabbits