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Tiles by Rupert Spira in Waithman Street
Rear Facade of 100 New Bridge Street.
a series of twenty-three large hand-made stoneware tile panels of 1992 by the potter Rupert Spira (b1960), all with different Escher-like patterns (www.rupertspira.com/). The glazes are a mix of beautifully mottled reds, blues, turquoise, green and grey, and it is hard to believe the panels are flat rather than three-dimensional. In the early 1990s Spira was producing pots at Lower Froyle, Hampshire, when he was offered a commission for tiles
At Swallow Tiles in Cranleigh he discovered how to produce tiles by hand, in interlocking shapes and with a full palette of glaze colours; he then made 18,000 tiles for a garden in Paris (1991) and carried out the 1992 commission from developers Rosehaugh Stanhope for 100 New Bridge Street. Financially secure from the tile making, Spira returned to making pots, experimenting with simpler forms and monochrome glazes, totally different from the New Bridge Street panels, his sole British tile commission.
Source: www.tilesoc.org.uk/tile-gazetteer/city-of-london.html
Tiles by Rupert Spira in Waithman Street
Rear Facade of 100 New Bridge Street.
a series of twenty-three large hand-made stoneware tile panels of 1992 by the potter Rupert Spira (b1960), all with different Escher-like patterns (www.rupertspira.com/). The glazes are a mix of beautifully mottled reds, blues, turquoise, green and grey, and it is hard to believe the panels are flat rather than three-dimensional. In the early 1990s Spira was producing pots at Lower Froyle, Hampshire, when he was offered a commission for tiles
At Swallow Tiles in Cranleigh he discovered how to produce tiles by hand, in interlocking shapes and with a full palette of glaze colours; he then made 18,000 tiles for a garden in Paris (1991) and carried out the 1992 commission from developers Rosehaugh Stanhope for 100 New Bridge Street. Financially secure from the tile making, Spira returned to making pots, experimenting with simpler forms and monochrome glazes, totally different from the New Bridge Street panels, his sole British tile commission.
Source: www.tilesoc.org.uk/tile-gazetteer/city-of-london.html