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Teamwork Italy

Specialising in texture and fabulous glaze effects, Teamwork Italy‘s highly bespoke service presents a perfect portfolio of unique tiling solutions. Elegant ripples and half pipes form their fluted tiles, three dimensional pointed peaks decorate their metros, and baby rectangles create adorable mosaics. Amongst these more traditional shapes sit the more unusual Klinker, Ice, Polimi, Trifoglio, and Famagosta. Matte, glossy, crinkled, speckled, inky, and puddled, Teamwork … Continue reading Teamwork Italy

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Popham x Mapoesie

Despite featuring their tiles in countless Interior inspo posts, Cyberspace Curiosities, and trends pieces, we’ve somehow never actually given the wonderful Popham Design an article of its own. But today that changes. Collaborating with luxury French lifestyle brand Mapoésie, Popham Design presents a trio of colourful abstract patterns – Calice, Nazaré, and Celeste. The curious curves of Calice take their inspiration from chain mail, and … Continue reading Popham x Mapoesie

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Get the Look: Decor Tiles V

Unique spaces await with these wonderful decor tiles! 1) Tri-tone Angles Go geometric and embrace multiple magical shades with an angular decorative design. Get the look with Pinnacle Marigold from Bert & May, Canyon 7 from Tabarka Studio, or Point in Mocha, Curry, and Caramel from Clé Tile. 2) Blue Diamonds Play with perspective on a feature floor with coloured cubes in a trio of … Continue reading Get the Look: Decor Tiles V

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Nok and Dandy

Mixing marble-effects in shades of smoky Black, off White, and inky Green, 41zero42‘s new Dandy collection offers magical patterns for moody interiors. Dramatic zig-zags, playful daisies, sharp contrast, and more intricate geometric motifs make up the six strong selection of designs. Made as a pick and mix amongst patterns and shade, Dandy creates endless opportunities for customising interiors. With matching Mr and Mrs multi-dimensional accent … Continue reading Nok and Dandy

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Assemble Algae

We’re no strangers to an algae/surface crossover. We’ve seen the curvaceous creations from Julia Lohmann, we’ve seen tiles injected with algae for water filtration from The Bio-Integrated Design Lab, we’ve seen roofs made of seaweed thatch by Kathryn Larsen, we’ve seen tiles made to house algae, and we’ve seen the varied colour profiles of waterborne algae used in Atelier Luma’s Algae Platform tiles. And today we’re adding … Continue reading Assemble Algae

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Petra Palumbo’s Perfect Harmony

With delicate beginnings designing hand-painted glass carafes to replace the plastic water bottles that live on the bedside table or office desk, Petra Palumbo has blossomed into a stylish homeware brand that adds a sense of occasion to even the most mundane of daily rituals. Infusing aesthetic influences from her Lebanese ancestry and home in Scotland, rich colours, dainty patterns, and natural imagery play together … Continue reading Petra Palumbo’s Perfect Harmony

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A futuristic fusion

Floating in with a multi-dimensional tile/art futuristic fusion, Hungarian brand Cavaril‘s Geomo 026 is serving relief like no other. Experimenting with a double-stuffed design, Geomo 026’s is made in two layers; a pocked and dotted base and a 3D angular accent. Four individual tiles (A1, A2, B1, and B2) make up the building blocks of the collection where mixing and matching amongst them showcase their … Continue reading A futuristic fusion

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Wavy Wonders

Partnering with Giovanni De Maio for a fabulous collection ripe with ripples, Cristina Celestino brings the tile world yet another gorgeous range of unique ceramic creations with Abaco Celeste. Richly pigmented in ocean blues, punchy corals, and vibrant oranges, five personalities – Helios, Graph, Thalassa, Peploe, and Chloris – make up the collection, bringing forward their unique takes on a wavy aesthetic. Helios, available in … Continue reading Wavy Wonders

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Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

Clay Imports welcomes another wonderful collection to the tile world with their new collaboration with Davey McEathron and Rebecca Holliday of Rock Paper Build. Finding inspiration in Mexican city San Miguel de Allende and on the motifs of cowboy boots, Rock Paper Build have created four designs – Bayas, Naranjas, Conectada, and Pomelo – with an enticingly retro aesthetic. These motifs decorate a selection of … Continue reading Tiles inspired by cowboy boots

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Wilder’s Waves

With colour, joy, whimsy, and endless half-moons, designer Aimée Wilder‘s tile collections are sure to inspire. Waves in playful shades, versatile geometrics, and a few unique takes on terrazzo, this extensive catalogue of designs takes a trip away from tradition to bring us a range of finishes solidly in the 21st Century. Wilder’s choices of colour and contrast emphasise the wobbling shapes, offering a highly … Continue reading Wilder’s Waves

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The Italian Collection

Maitland & Poate add another fabulous range to their expansive collection with a new retro collaboration. The new addition – The Italian Collection – was created by design journalist and interiors expert Kate Watson-Smyth who founded Mad About the House. Taking inspiration from her recent Italian home renovation, the collection’s colourways reflect some of the 300-year-old property’s original features with unusual, rich, and lovely combos. … Continue reading The Italian Collection

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Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

Teeny tiny tiles tastefully adorned with hearts, leaves, squiggles, and apples take the stage today as we cover the adorable decors of Blatherwick Ceramics. Found on a scout about the internet, Buxton-based Blatherwick Ceramics sits proudly amongst the artisans on Etsy with artist Sue offering up her handmade slip decorated ceramic creations. Plates, mugs, dishes, and brooches add to the artsy ranks, with five collections … Continue reading Itsy Bitsy Blatherwick

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Dazed and Glazed

As the son of a potter, Oregon-based creative Brett Stern has always been drawn to the magic of clay. Now a self-proclaimed alchemist, Stern uses “colour, temperature, and time” as his ingredients, producing wacky, wonderful, bubbly beauties for Dazed and Glazed. Using an innovative process to fuse a thin veneer of glass onto a ceramic tile surface an unusual foamy look is created with patterns … Continue reading Dazed and Glazed

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Get the Look: Decor Tiles IV

Over on our Instagram I asked what sort of inspo should feature in our next Get the Look and by a massive margin the results told me that more decor tiles are required. So here are five interiors and the decor tiles you need to get the look! 1) Wavy Maze A black and white wiggly wave of lines curls up and around the walls … Continue reading Get the Look: Decor Tiles IV

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Creating Crumbles

Offering a modern perspective on a historic material, Italian research hub Terraformæ seeks to push the boundaries of terracotta to produce fresh surface solutions full of organic charm. One of these surface solutions blends two timeless favourites – terrazzo and terracotta. Designed by Sveva Bizzotto, Terraformæ’s Crumbles utilises production scraps, such as glass and cryolite, to form the freckling flecks that give it its terrazzo-like … Continue reading Creating Crumbles

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Lux Loveliness

Vibrant with colour, rich with retro charm, and oozing artisanal finesse, these are the enchanting creations of Trix Newham. Embracing the captivating visuals formed by glaze effects, Newham’s artistic designs combine inky, watercolour, crackled, and speckled looks with raw natural clay to produce dynamic, characterful works. Originally reigniting her love for pottery in 2021, Newham started out making small square dishes decorated with geometric patterns … Continue reading Lux Loveliness

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Six silly fish tiles

Sealife tiles got a post of their own, as did those that took us underwater, but we kept back these fishy fancies so they could all hang out here together. 1) Poisson Made up of seven colour-coded fish triptychs, Ceramiche Arcea‘s Poisson plays with pattern and tone for a marvellous mix and match shaol that varies the decor from heady to body to tail. 2) … Continue reading Six silly fish tiles

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Kaolin x Greg Natale

Startled to discover it has been five whole years since we shared The Composite Collection, it seems high time to check out whether Australian designer Greg Natale has been creating any more tiling delights for us to sink our teeth into. And thankfully he hasn’t disappointed. This time collaborating with Kaolin, Natale has produced the Dimora Collection, a set of three tile series – The … Continue reading Kaolin x Greg Natale

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Rolling hills and shining seas

Wisely choosing ceramic as a canvas, Lincolnshire-based Kate Boulton celebrates the local countryside with striking swoops and puddles of glaze. Delightfully abstracted, the lush rolling hills, the muddy Humber, and the idyllic coastline take shape under striking, colourful effects. With mountain peaks, a rippling sea, angular bridge, and glistening sunlight scratched into the surface, multiple dimensions recreate the serenity, intrigue, and wonder of areas both … Continue reading Rolling hills and shining seas

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A cornucopia of creepy crawlies

For those of you who wishes we had even more insect tiles than we could fit into our post from a few weeks ago, today is your lucky day! Norwich-based Emily of Kreetzers Creatures showcases her love of all things bug, beetle, and beyond in charming ceramic style. Displaying the magnificent and mystical shapes and shades of longhorn beetles, moths, dragonflies, cockroaches, butterflies, cicadas, shield … Continue reading A cornucopia of creepy crawlies

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