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The "Tile Car", from Art Donaldson's personal collection, is a 1963 Lincoln Continental with suicide doors.
The original owner, Detlef Schwartz, was a professional plate spinner known by the single theatrical name of "Alcetty". Alcetty first covered the car with leather which cracked within a year. His next attempt was with ceramic tile. The tile was so heavy that it was necessary to cover the body with armor plate, put on overload springs and use shock absorbers. The extra thickness of armor and tile required extension of the car's length to avoid an ugly overhang. Alcetty used elastic autobody putty as an adhesive as well as grout. Then he spray painted the light putty with black paint and wiped the paint off the tiles themselves to give an affect of black grout.
The radiator installed by Alcetty was designed after the tall and elegant Rolls-Royce radiator of classic fame, except he squashed it down to more of a square. It is said that Alcetty's design was the origin of the present Rolls-Royce low radiator design.
The black interior of the car is highlighted with a tile dashboard and tile window panels. One ton of weight was added to the car from the tile which puts the car's total weight at three tons.
Alcetty traded the tile car to a professional magician, John Daniel, of South Pasadena, California for ten thousand dollars worth of toy trains and two carousel animals."
In this workshop, participating artists learned painting on tiles. Each student created a 4-inch and 6-inch tile, experimenting with glazes and color.
At a theater down the street, the front wal was covered with these small tiles. I had my macro lens on the camera, so I had to take a macro photo.
this tile is a part of a series of glass tiles being installed at the Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, VA.
( photo was taken by the installer)
From Wikipedia:
"The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, who received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003.
The Pritzker Prize citation stated: “ There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent. ”
The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
The Sydney Opera House is a modern expressionist design, with a series of large precast concrete "shells", each composed of sections of a sphere of 75.2 metre (246 ft 8½ in) radius, forming the roofs of the structure, set on a monumental podium. The building covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land and is 183 metres (605 ft) long and 120 metres (388 ft) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 588 concrete piers sunk as much as 25 metres below sea level.
Although the roof structures of the Opera House are commonly referred to as "shells", they are in fact not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are instead precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs. The shells are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white- and matte-cream-coloured Swedish-made tiles from Höganäs AB, though, from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white.
Formal construction of the Opera House began in March 1959. The project was built in three stages. Stage I (1959–1963) consisted of building the upper podium. Stage II (1963–1967) saw the construction of the outer shells. Stage III (1967–1973) consisted of the interior design and construction.
The Opera House was formally opened by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on 20 October 1973."
Great photobomb of my shot of the Toynbee tile at Kensington and Allegheny Avenues in Philadelphia, PA. [View tile close-up]
For more information, see "Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles," "Toynbee Tiles: Recent Developments and Mysteries Anew," Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, and the Wikipedia article "Toynbee tiles."
Tiles - time-laps # 02 - Torre Unicredit; Milano, 2015 - photo mosaic, made with several shots taken in differents days; Milan, Italy
'Cinderella' tile panel, painted tin-glazed earthenware, made by Morris, Faulkner and Co, 1863. Cinderella tiles designed by Burne Jones and painted by Lucy Faulkner. Blue and White 'swan' tiles designed by Philip Webb. Panel made as an overmantel for 'The Hill', Witley, in Surrey, home of artist Myles Birket Foster who commissioned the work and was an early patron and supporter of William Morris' work : detail
The reason for this is notice the tile was laid down on tile and the old tile outlasted the new. I didn't notice this at first either.
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