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On the first floor of this decaying house, there lived a painter with his family. When I was a child, my parents and I were often there. I was fascinated by the high rooms, but most of all by the room in the turret. It had light-blue painted walls, rococo furniture (white painted), wonderful curtains. I felt, as if I was little princess Linda!:)
Backsplash installation by Ceramictec Tile using Walker Zanger's Studio Moderne Regency Polished Mosaic in Green River Onyx
Even the bar is magnificently tiled in the Golden Cross.
A grade 2 listed building with a splendid tiled frontage. Built in 1849 as The Shield & Newcastle Tavern. It became the Golden Cross in 1863.
Tiles for America began on September 12, 2001. In the aftermath of the tragedy, crowds gathered in large numbers in front of Saint Vincent's Hospital, located at the corner of 7th Avenue and 11th Street. This was the hospital that was prepared to receive the thousands of survivors that many people were hopeful they would be. Lorrie Veasey, owner of OUR NAME IS MUD, also located on 11th Street, began to create what she hoped would be an inspiration to recovering victims. From raw clay she fashioned approximately 5000 small angels and American flags, which she and friends attached to a fence that faced the hospital on September 14. The angels and flags were attached with ribbon, and before two weeks had passed, most of them had been removed from the fence.
Lorrie is a member of an organization called the Contemporary Ceramic Studio Association. They have a web site with a bulletin board where "Paint Your Own Pottery" studios correspond with one another. Studios across the USA were understandably horrified at the events of 9/11 and eager to find a way to help. The idea of a tile memorial took hold, and soon studios all across the USA held individual fundraisers in which tiles were created for the NY Memorial. Soon, case upon case of tiles began to arrive. Studio owners often drove through the night to bring their tiles to the site (such as Patti Bowman from Glazenfyre in Virginia Beach VA-who drove up with 1500 tiles), and many studio owners worked in freezing weather to install them, (Most notably Deb from Garden City Doin the Dishes and Meredith from Art and Soul).
What was once a small section of fence has grown to encompass more than a full city block. Approximately 6000 tiles now hang on the Memorial. Most CCSA studios have participated in some way, and tiles have also been received from Europe and Japan. Word has also spread through the clay community, and the Memorial has received several hand made unusual tiles from prominant ceramic artists.
Currently, TILES FOR AMERICA is searching for additional sites to hang tiles which continue to arrive. It is also the goal of some of its founders to grow the project into a National fundraising organization that benefits a variety of causes. If you have a site or would like to help with the future of Tiles for America, please contact us.
Close-up and details of The Rainbow Fountain. Pewabic Pottery tiles. Cranbrook. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. May 12th, 2023.
These Spanish tiles were kept at a low level, around the working areas, to promote again a more spacious and less kitchen feeling, since this space openly communicates with the living room.
Cragside is a Victorian country house and estate just outside Rothbury. Developed from the 1860s by William Armstrong, the pioneering hydraulic engineer, it was the first house in the country to be electrically lit, by its own hydroelectric plant. It is now owned by the National Trust.
Many of the corridors in the house are decorated with these tiles below the dado rail.
this is causing great discussion in out house... This tile is all over our bathroom..
What do you see in it?
These photos are a first attempt at documenting what is now the Nicaraguan National Police Academy's headquarter, but what used to be - before the revolution of 1979 - the house where the last ruling Somoza, Anastasio Somoza, kept his mistress Dinorah Sampson. It is located on the Carretera Sur in Managua. As such it is part of modern Nicaraguan history and yet another example of how quickly modern Nicaraguan history has changed and how the layers sit there side by side - from Somoza's mistress and the high-life of the Managuan elite, to the Sandinista police in 1979 and now the PolicĂa Nacional de Nicaragua. All in less than 40 years.
I plan to return to do a much fuller documentation of the house, including the activities that now go on there. The house - which is part of much larger grounds where new police recruits are trained - is fascinating in that it is partly abandoned, partly renovated for its new use.