This year, in a first for DesignJunction, a collaboration with Turkishceramics will see a striking ceramic installation – Gateways by Adam Nathaniel Furman – created in the central fountain space of Granary Square, King’s Cross. Continue reading Groovy Gateway
STACtile is a modular tile for use as wall cladding that creates a multitude of patterns and effects when stacked, shifted or rotated. It is a tactile, contemporary cladding solution that is brought to life through light. Continue reading Sensational STACtile
BluePrint Ceramics is a family-run tile business set up in 2010 by Simon and Stephanie Peel to service the tile specification market in the UK and overseas. This year at 100% Design, BluePrint is planning to showcase some of the most forward thinking tile collections around. Continue reading Carefully Curated Choice
With the arrival of Bianco Assoluto and Nero Assoluto, Lapitec now offers 15 monochrome shades, as well as six Arabescato finishes. That’s 123 solutions for large surface areas, indoor and outdoor coverings, bathrooms, kitchens and design objects. Continue reading Magnificent Monochromes
Designed by award-winning Swedish-based collective Note Design Studio – and distributed by Domus -Weave is a new 3D tile from Kaza Concrete that is available in three unique tessellating patterns, matt and gloss finishes, and six metallic colours. Continue reading Note Design Weaves Some Magic for Kaza Concrete at Domus
Marazzi’s new 3.200 sq. ft. showroom in St. John Street, Clerkenwell features a black and white entrance: a monumental portal that creates a theatrical space and gives the visitors a bottleneck perspective of the ground floor. Continue reading Marazzi Makes A Move
At Friday’s Tile Association Awards – the most prestigious annual event for the UK tiling industry – the title of Tile Fixer of the Year was awarded to Sharon Taylor of Viva Tiling, who took up tiling following redundancy in 2007. Continue reading Viva Viva
Through creativity, technology and experimentation Sicis has developed an extensive portfolio of mosaic products that are used in prestigious projects across the world. Typical is the new collection of micro-mosaic door and furniture pulls. Continue reading The Pull Factor
Robert Dawson’s Westway mural combines a mixture of locally significant historical references, including a portrait of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, within a skillfully interrelated and overlaid composition. Continue reading Westway
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
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
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
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
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
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
Few restaurant interiors have taken the humble glazed tile to such heights as Voodoo Ray’s: a pizza slice shop and bar in Dalston, East London. Here Gundry & Ducker have created a distinctive and characterful space that references both New York and London. Continue reading Tiling Voodoo Ray’s
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
Having met on a foundation course at art college in the Wirrall, tile makers Carlo Briscoe and Ed Dunn then plied their trade in London before relocating to Wales. There this artistic couple have refined their decorative style and won a loyal following from clients including Waitrose. Continue reading Waitrose Wall Art
