It’s our last post of the year so we’re leaving 2025 with a bag of curiosities for your viewing pleasure. Feast your eyes on flowers, matryoshka, and Daliesque scenes, and have a lovely winter holiday! 1) Ditorni Isola Designed by Inga Sempé for Mutina, plain colours, patterns, and scenes make up Ditorni (surroundings). Geometric motifs and solid shades form distinctive details and intriguing space, but … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXIV
Grab yourself a bunch of flowers, a koi pond, or a stack of washing machines with this latest set of Cyberspace Curiosities! 1) Bell’s Tulips Pairing bunches of tulips with handfuls of foliage, this decorative design by Cressida Bell for Villa Lagoon Tile makes marvellous use of the fishscale shape to create an adorable garden for the wall. The four colour ways provide dramatically diverse … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXIII
Last, but by no means least, the final addition to our month of companies and creatives – Lofa Ceramics. Making small batch, high fired ceramics to order in Guadalajara, Mexico, Lofa Ceramics offers sculptural pieces rich with character, texture, and style. Striking glaze effects and uniquely curated colour schemes decorate the 3D shapes and unusual forms with charming imperfections, varied tones, and matt/gloss details giving … Continue reading Lofa Ceramics
It’s our last article before DTA’s long Christmas break so to celebrate the end of yet another tiletastic year, here are our top ten tile finds of 2024. 1) Petra Palumbo’s Tartan Tiles Intensely vibrant and wonderfully dramatic, Petra Palumbo‘s tartan tiles are an exciting addition to our mental tile catalogue. Four colours with matching trim pieces and complementing art pieces make this selection a … Continue reading DTA’s tiling favourites from 2024
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
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
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
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
Cats, dogs, and sealife have all had their own little home here so today it’s time to celebrate some of the world’s unsung heroes of beauty – bugs! 1) Bee & Skep From the fabulous Grow House Grow, Bee & Skep shines a spotlight on these vital insects, emphasising the importance they’ve held throughout history, not only in the natural world, but as spiritual symbols. … Continue reading Six unexpectedly lovely insect tiles
With the wibbly-wobbly, wavy, zebra-esque flair of Henry Holland Studio, Bert & May‘s newest collection translates an iconic aesthetic onto tile. Inspired by the Japanese art of nerikomi, these hand-poured cement pieces are unique every time as threads of colour flutter across the surface, pooling and streaking at random. Four homely shades – Rosemary Green, Mineral Blue, Rust, and Purple Brown – create diverse characters, … Continue reading Perfectly Poured
Partnering with Los Angeles based design studio Commune Design, Exquisite Surfaces have created a striking selection of handmade tiles, rich with earthy charm and enticing personality. Eight different designs – Sitio, Najavo, Zuni, Mochi, Circle, Drop, Bean, and Abstrakt – provide enormous variety, both across the design families and within them. Sitio alone is made up of eight variations of surface relief and four contrasting … Continue reading Commune Collection
A few weeks ago we took a look at a few fabulous tile collections inspired by landscapes, but today we’re going underwater. These curious designs take cues from the sea and the rich and vibrant world that lives there. 1) Paper41 Lux Jacques from 41zero42 Amongst their many magnificent large format tile wallpaper designs, 41zero42 keep a bold and beautiful coralscape in intense shades of … Continue reading Five tiles that take you underwater
Please welcome to the fold June’s collection of Cyberspace Curiosities! 1) Wiltshire Hares This adorable collection by Wiltshire artist Joanna May for Ca’ Pietra sets the scene of eight hares playfully running, leaping, and posing for a sweet and simple rural farmhouse vibe made to be mixed and matched. 2) Phase to Phase Showing the cycle of the moon in a striking sequence, these stunning … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XIX
It’s time to bring you more fantastic tiling with our most wonderfully whimsical collection of curiosities yet! 1) People Bianco Creating crazy cartwheeling characters with limbs repeating indefinitely as they spin, the unusual, artsy People Bianco tiles from Codicer95 are breakdancing dancing hexagons full of life. A selection of faces forms a feature unlike any other, with silly scenes just waiting to be discovered. 2) … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XVIII
Unusual patterns, wondrous colours, and striking designs, these unique interiors are full of personality, so we’ve found the tiles you need to get the look. 1) Checker Wall Add a contemporary take on a traditional style with an unexpected checkered feature wall. Get the look with Checkmate in Metal, White, and Black from Clé Tile, Britannia Light, Snow White, Black Marble Mosaic from Marble Systems, … Continue reading Get the Look: Decor Tiles II
We’re heading deep into the ocean for today’s collection of unusual tiles. From crabs to jellyfish, creatures from the deep are the decoration of choice for these awesome designs. 1) Jellyfish from Tubadzin Found at Cersaie in 2022, these Jellyfish tiles from Tubadzin perfectly encompass the creepiness and beauty of these painful gelatinous blobs with a dark textured background and shimmering jellyfish. 2) Modern Kulture … Continue reading Eight surprising sealife tiles
If you’re into unique, striking, and boundary-pushing art, today’s tile company feature is exactly what you need. Based in Girona, Spain, Bussoga blends the modular magic of mathematics with a wildly creative attitude, giving life to an enormous catalogue of incredible ceramics unlike any you have seen before. Founded in 2010 by Josep Motas, who was later joined by Irina Grosu, Bussoga was created to … Continue reading Bussoga: Beyond Brilliant
I went on a theme-heavy hunt to find a whole bunch of fabulous tiles and give myself an excuse to share them. A few weeks ago it was all about delicious fruity tiles and today we’re going for something completely different – Tiger Tiles! 1) Tiger Red from Motawi There is no end to the artistry of Motawi Tiles and I was delighted to find … Continue reading Five tiger tiles that look ready to pounce
This fabulously fishy feature tile collection from Italian handmade tile design house Ceramiche Arcea takes mix and match to the next level. Seven different compositions, each consisting of an individual head, body, and tail piece, make up Poisson. These compositions are distinguished through colour and pattern with three blues, one pink, one red, one yellow, and one black trio all making use of a different … Continue reading Pick and mix your Poisson
We’ve shared over 80 tiles across our Cyberspace Curiosities series so far but are you still on the lookout for unique, unusual, and wonderfully weird tiles? Then here are five more for our 17th instalment. 1) Mare The lovely Lili Cement graces our Curiosities once more with their seaside surprise Mare tiles. Three oceanic colour ways decorate the wibbly wobbly waves that travel across these … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XVII
