The Cliff Lodge ski resort in Utah decided to create an Aspen tree motif on two large wall mosaics, one in the ballroom lobby, and the other in the ballroom mezzanine, each thirty feet wide by four feet high and consisting of over 166,000 individual vitreous glass mosaic pieces each. Continue reading Striking Snowbird
Precisely-modelled modular forms can convert R&D projects into unique 3D surfaces. Continue reading Modular Modelling
Melanie Watts create stunning mosaic murals for a public art project raising awareness of endangered species. Watts has recently created a stunning glass mosaic of an endangered white barn owl for the Gyosei Art Trail on the Grand Union Canal in Milton Keynes. Continue reading Mosaic Movement
Invader is the pseudonym of a French urban artist, whose work is modelled on the crude pixellation of 8-bit video games. His work is composed of ceramic tile murals installed in urban locations. Continue reading Intrepid Invader
The opening of the first Bunnings Warehouse in St Albans is the first step in a £500 to £750 million investment plan by parent company Wesfarmers, which acquired Homebase in January 2016 in a £340 million deal. Continue reading Bonza Bunnings
In Santiago, Chile Jorge Campos, A.K.A. Pixel, is taking mosaic street art to a whole new level.
Pixel shares his images of cultural heroes, and riffs on art icons, with the people of Santiago by bringing mosaic art to local neighborhoods. Continue reading Presenting Pixel Power
Peronda’s Harmony brand has established a trailblazing reputation in design. It offers a wide variety of products for surfaces of all kinds: from mosaics to a rich assortment of decorative products including natural stone and hand-made pieces, that can bring a distinctive personality to any interior. Continue reading Peronda Personified
If the UK has Banksy, Italy has Tiler. This reclusive Genovese street artist’s creations have been popping on the walls of the city for many months. Created from painted tiles, Tiler’s installations have appeared suddenly in many different areas of the port. Continue reading Genovese Graffiti
Vives’ new Dolce Vita collection is a multi-design range offering a fresh take on the decorative trend, with more than a nod to the enduring appeal of terrazzo, trencardis and stracciato. Continue reading Cevisama: Viva Vives
British designer Faye Toogood’s furniture and objects, including her beautiful glazed lava tiles, demonstrate a preoccupation with materiality and experimentation. Continue reading London Lava
Naive Slimtech, the Lea Ceramiche collection designed by Patrick Norguet, received the prestigious Good Design Award for 2016. Continue reading A Nod to Norguet
In The Bell’s gents, neat rows of green metro wall tiles are set against contrasting black and white chequerboard floor tiles, with sheet music wallpaper and urinals formed from three flugelhorns! Continue reading Flugelhorn Urinals
Andy Martin Architects’ interior for the Olivogelo ice-cream shop in Belgravia features a wall covered in 3D bespoke ‘lickable’ tiles with hints of coloured flavours. Continue reading Lickable Tiles
Alea are utter specialists in metallic finishes on ceramic surfaces resulting in products that are exclusive and avant-garde … something very special. Continue reading Metallic Movement
The floor was tiled in a patchwork of non-matching porcelain floor tiles in a range of designs, colours, formats and finishes. Continue reading Shabby Chic in India
“I create bespoke drawings with unique themes, and source beautiful and colourful materials to ensure the artwork really holds the viewers’ attention.” Melanie Watts. Continue reading Butterfly BAL
I’m away on holiday until the 13th February, so I’ll leave you with some tile humour. Well, it may be humour! More years ago than I care to remeber there was much talk of a new single all-powerful association to represent the UK tile trade. Here Dr Grout shares some of his ‘initial thoughts’ on possible names for this important new body. ADD Association of … Continue reading Tile Humour: Guilt By Association
I’m away on holiday until the 13th February, so I’ll leave you with some tile humour. Well, it may be humour! Taco: How floor tile manufacturers to dispose of their off-cuts. Thick bed: Fixing technique invented by adhesive manufacturers. Thin set: Fixing technique designed to keep costs down, and prices up. Tools: Hardware designed to make the public believe tiling is far more complicated than … Continue reading Tiling Thesaurus: T – W
I’m away on holiday until the 13th February, so I’ll leave you with some tile humour. Well, it may be humour! Quality: Obsolete. Term once used by a handful of manufacturers, now superseded by “acceptable”. Quantity: Number of tiles required as calculated independently by customer and fixer. It is standard industry practice for retailers to take larger figure (fixer’s) and add 25%. Quantity surveyor: End … Continue reading Tiling Thesaurus: Q – S
I’m away on holiday until the 13th February, so I’ll leave you with some tile humour. Well, it may be humour! Majolica: I thought I was going on holiday, but I ended up in another dusty tile factory. Mohs: In the scale of things, very important. In reality, totally ignored by one and all. Mosaic: The perfect opportunity to get rid of all those dust-covered … Continue reading Tiling Thesaurus: M – P
