Working with clay for over 20 years, Michigan-based Gretchen Kramp creates three dimensional handmade tiles decorated with cosy creatures and home comforts. Each gently irregular piece measures between the tiny 2 x 2″ and more stately 8 x 8″, with diverse subjects, themes, and styles for a variety of tastes. Toast, cereal, and fried eggs serve up scenes for breakfast lovers whilst Mothman, Mermaids, and … Continue reading Gretchen Kramp
Finishing our second week of tile-world companies and creatives we have Guumba Pottery – a Seoul-based ceramic studio that creates captivating handcrafted homeware. Exploring the interplay of organic material and an artist’s touch, each piece is decorated in Guumba Pottery’s reinterpretation of traditional Korean folk paintings, aesthetics, and patterns. Every bowl, vase, cup, and tile form a canvas, depicting charming creatures and striking motifs in … Continue reading Guumba Pottery
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
From furniture to storage, lighting to looping, sometimes tile is more than just a pretty face. 1) Hoops and Rods Dutch product designer Marieke Van Heesbeen makes use of the permanence of tile to serve a purpose beyond aesthetics. With her delightful set of hoops and rods, stylish storage solutions are offered for the bathroom and beyond. 2) Hooks and Lighting Create seamless lighting design with … Continue reading When tile is more than tile II
It’s always a time to celebrate when we come across something weird and wonderful in the tile world. And today, the functional art we’re featuring is enticingly weird, outstandingly wonderful, and, of course, fully tiled. From an exhibition last year titled ‘Please Sit for the Alternate Ending’ held at Objective Gallery designers Sam Klemick and Jeff Martin made their magic from outdated trends, materials, and … Continue reading The only way to tile a table
Add a touch of drama and finesse to your interiors with a show of stripes. We’ve got five interiors to inspire you and the tiles you need to recreate the look at home. 1) Baby Mint Embrace the balance of blue green with this stunning colour and add a little stripey flair for fun. Get the look with Tiffany Dots from Otto Tiles & Design, … Continue reading Get the Look: Stripes
Pink’s popularity in interior design is an absolute delight – full of fun, warmth, and whimsy, these trending tones bring bags of boundless beauty to any interior. Amongst our thousands of images of kitchens, bathrooms, hallways, fireplaces, and gardens we’ve collected over many hours of Instagram browsing we spotted a few Colours of the Year so here are a few fabulous spaces that feature this … Continue reading Spotted: the pinks of 2023
Last year a fabulous exhibition stretched the possibility of tile far outside of it’s comfort zone. Philadelphia-based artist Sean Gerstley‘s solo show Tile Block presented a patchwork of ceramic creations designed for the home. Skirting the boundaries of what it means to be tile, some of Gerstley’s furniture pieces are very much not tile, especially the hand-pinched lighting structures, whilst others blend tile with 3D … Continue reading A new place for tile
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
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
A studio born of friendship, Ramona Paloma crafts delight and whimsy fresh from clay. Despite having lived virtually parallel lives for many years, it wasn’t until 1998 when studio founders Tracy and Soozee first met and bonded over a shared love of art. Beginning with jewellery, a surprising forray into tiled pet-feeding-tables for a charity auction led them towards the welcoming, charming arms of ceramics. … Continue reading Ramona Paloma Tile Studio
True lovers of tile are found at today’s company of choice – Emery & Cie. Since 1993 Paris, Brussels, and London based Emery & Cie has brough curated interior touches to homes and spaces, under the creative direction of Agnés Emery. There are so many wonderfully unique designs to be found, including a classic collection of zellige, beautiful fez pottery styles, relief tiles, and faux … Continue reading Emery & Cie
Established in 1916 by brothers Hubert and C.D. Richardson, Cameron Trading Post came shortly after the erection of a bridge over the Little Colorado River in 1911. Originally frequented by Navajo & Hopi locals to trade goods, improvements in infrastructure, Cameron Trading Post’s proximity to the Grand Canyon and other local wonders, as well as the company’s tradition of hospitality made it popular with travelers. … Continue reading Trading Post Trivets
This is a company we’ve been meaning to cover for a while now, a company with no need for trends and a love for simplicity. Established in 2014, New Terracotta is a place of Portuguese passion. Located in Central Portugal, the New Terracotta artisans pride themselves on small-scale, high quality production that offers the best of traditional techniques and contemporary aesthetics. For them, imperfection inherent … Continue reading New Terracotta
By now you know the drill – each month we are sharing five fantastic companies that you might not have heard of, and some of the reasons why you should keep them on your radar. 1. Sabine Hill Founded little over ten years ago by Lyndsey and Jeff Glasener, Sabine Hill was born from the desire to create and design. Specialising in cement tile with … Continue reading Five companies to keep an eye on IV
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
It’s a year of remote discovery, with new artists, companies, and designs on our radar. We’ve got plenty more companies up our sleeve, but today we’re sharing one that is extremely local to us at Tile Addict – Spicer Tiles. With humble beginnings, a 15 year old Andrew Spicer left school in 1979 and started his education in the roofing industry where he quickly learnt … Continue reading Spicer’s Rustic Splendour
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
Today’s article is inspired by a recent challenge we were set. A reader reached out to us to find some particularly beautiful tiles used in a bathroom found on Houzz. And they weren’t the only ones looking, as others had commented below the images asking what the tiles were only for the bathroom designers to tell them that they only supplied the fixtures and couldn’t … Continue reading Tile Addicts’ Tile Detection Task
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
