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these tiles on an old house with a traditional algarvian chimney seemed interesting to shoot.
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Fonthill Castle was the home of the archaeologist and tile maker Henry Chapman Mercer. Built between 1908 and 1912, it is an early example of poured-in-place concrete and features 44 rooms, over 200 windows, 18 fireplaces, 10 bathrooms and one powder room.
The castle contains built-in furniture and is embellished with decorative tiles, made by Mercer at the height of the Arts and Crafts movement. The castle is filled with an extensive collection of ceramics embedded in the concrete of the house, as well as other artifacts from his world travels, including cuneiform tablets discovered in Mesopotamia dating back to over 2300 BCE. The home also contains around 1,000 prints from Mercer's extensive collection, as well as over six thousand books, almost all of which were annotated by Mercer himself.
The Castle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and was later included in a National Historic Landmark District along with the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works and the Mercer Museum. (Wikipedia)
Decorative tiling in an Art Nouveau/ Art Deco building, Lindfield. Without intensive examination I would say that the building is on the cusp of these two styles; however the colours in the tiling make me lean towards Art Deco as I've seen similar in regional buildings that are more clearly part of the great Art Deco building boom in Australia.
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Formerly a Prudential office on the corner of St Andrews Square and North St Andrews Street; now swanky (allegedly) Tiles bar.
Somewhere on the Iberian Peninsula.
Glazed and fired clay tile work is seen throughout Portugal and Spain. This art well records the millennial march of cultures.
The marble bench speaks to the availability and common use of local marble in the finer aspects of architecture over millennia.
pleated waves à la Goran Konjevod folded in Vienna.
folded from a very beautiful sheet of Hilli's paper. the distribution of the colours and the shiny parts create the impression that the whole thing is made from lots of small tiles like a mosaic. I love that :-)))
A mid-block wall of little tiles in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From old Street Views it appears the tiles were hidden behind a wooden facade of a bar that was long gone by 2008. Here's the 2015 view before the facade was removed.
When I discovered how much fun it was to paint pebbles a while back I had an idea that it might be fun to use these acrylic pens on other items such as tiles. We discovered we had some spare tiles in the shed left over from when we had the kitchen and bathrooms redone, and JJ and I decorated some of them. I wonder if you can recognise our styles and work out which ones JJ did! He painted 4 - I did the rest.
I gave one to Matt and Sophie for their anniversary and am going to give my sister one when I see her as it's her anniversary in September! We've recently tidied up our lean-to and JJ had the idea it would be nice to have a line up along the wall that the kitchen window looks out at! A lot of the year we have washing up here but in the summer it's much clearer and we can enjoy looking out at them!
The first photo shows them in the garden after I sprayed them with protective spray and the second pic shows them up on the wall, using Command strips.