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A backsplash in uptown Charlotte skyrise condo units. 3/4" Multi Slate with bricwork travertine feature strip and 2" granite accents. Installed by Charlotte tile contractor, Cupan Custom Tile.
Inside of the Church of the Spilt Blood, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Beautiful paintings, right?
But they aren't paintings - they're MOSAICS... all of it. The tiles are about the size of a fingernail...! Every last bit of color, design, and art is a never-ending blanket of hand-laid tiles.
Even though it was looted and fairly destroyed during multiple wars, 27 years of restoration brought the church back into the public domain. It has not, however, been re-consecrated as a church since the restoration. But it does serve as an awe-inspiring monument of pride for locals.
A sexangular tiling. It's a word I came across while I was reading about a moth. It just means hexagonal. A somewhat obsolete word!
Adjective
(comparative more sexangular, superlative most sexangular)
It's been even more slow-going than usual on Flickr these days!
This is wax polished clay flooring tile. To know more about this product please visit www.btiles.com
Location of two Toynbee Tiles at 10th and Arch streets, Philadelphia, PA. [View Large Tile] [View Small Tile]
For more information, see "Resurrect Dead: Uncovering What Lies Beneath," my review of Jon Foy's film Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles, and the Wikipedia article "Toynbee tiles."
I finally got around to making these into a necklace... I posted photos of the tiles back in Feb... I'm very happy with the results. I know the background is a little busy, I just liked the way they look on it.
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A visit to Wightwick Manor & Gardens in Wolverhampton.
It was a cold Sunday afternoon. The manor is in the Tettenhall area of Wolverhampton.
The legacy of a family's passion for Victorian art and design, Wightwick Manor (pronounced "Wittick") is a Victorian manor house located on Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England. Owned by the National Trust since 1937, the Manor and its grounds are open to the public. It is one of only a few surviving examples of a house built and furnished under the influence of the Aesthetic movement and Arts and Crafts movement. Wightwick was built by Theodore Mander, of the Mander family, who were successful 19th-century industrialists in the area (Mander Brothers), and his wife Flora, daughter of Henry Nicholas Paint, member of Parliament in Canada. It was designed by Edward Ould of Liverpool in two phases; the first was completed in 1887 and the house was extended with the Great Parlour wing in 1893. Notes taken by Theodore Mander at a lecture given in Wolverhampton in 1884 by Oscar Wilde on the 'House Beautiful' inspired Wightwick's interiors.Taking inspiration from this lecture, Theodore and his wife Flora decorated its interiors with the designs of William Morris and his Arts and Crafts contemporaries.
This family house is a notable example of the influence of William Morris, with original Morris wallpapers and fabrics, De Morgan tiles, Kempe glass and Pre-Raphaelite works of art, including works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn De Morgan, Edward Burne-Jones, Ford Madox Brown and John Everett Millais
The Manor has the work of 11 professional female artists on permanent public display, more than any other in the National Trust, including notable examples of works by Lizzie Siddal, Evelyn De Morgan, Lucy Madox Brown, Marie Spartali Stillman, May Morris and other female artists. Most of these artworks were collected by the Manders.
In 1937 Geoffrey Mander a radical Liberal MP and local paint manufacturer who had been left the timber-framed house by his father Theodore, persuaded the National Trust to accept a house that was just 50 years old, under the Country Houses Scheme Act.
This house of the Aesthetic Movement was, by 1937, a relic of an out of fashion era. Yet, so complete was the design that it was worthy of preservation. Having given the house to the Trust, Geoffrey Mander and his second wife, Rosalie, became its live-in curators, opening the house to the public and adding to its contents. In particular they added a notable collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings by Rossetti, Burne-Jones and their followers.Descendants of the family retain a private apartment in the manor.
The house has 14 acres of Victorian garden and the outbuildings house stables (now a tea room); a gallery in the old malt house; gift shop; and an antiquarian bookshop.
It is situated just off the main A454 Wolverhampton to Bridgnorth road, approximately three miles to the west of the city centre.
The manor has been Grade I listed on the National Heritage List for England since July 1950, and its gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Grade I Listed Building
A look around Wightwick Manor. The home has been preserved as the Mander family left it in 1937 when it became part of the National Trust.
Guest bedrooms
Acanthus Bedroom
fireplace
Imaginations calm and fair,
The memory like a cloudless air,
The conscience as a sea at rest.
This was in the Bathroom at Frisch's Big Boy - I don't usually take photos in public bathrooms but I liked these tiles.
I used scrapbook paper, modge podge and 1/8" black artists tape (for the "grout lines") to add a little distressed tuscany tile feel to my backsplash. Took about 3 hours and $25!
"Penny Tile" is a rendition of the popular iridescent glass penny tile seen in cool home dec magazines...and the kitchens and bathrooms of those who can afford it!
Work is done with a mixture of acrylic paint, gel pen, oil pastels, colored pencil, and gasp--nail polish.
Floor tiles - Topps Tiles 'Malaya Black 33x33cm
Grout - BAL Superflex wide joint grey 3.5kg
Adhesive - Toppfix rapidset flexible grey
Brett and the circular saw a neighbour lent us. He is the better of the two of us at anything involving patience and slow work, like making slow steady cuts with this saw. And he's a super plasterer, especially with detailed work like niches and round reveals that drive Sue mad (she likes to just cover lots of bulk wall). Sue also enjoys mathematical jobs like tiling. Good team...