Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dutch tiles



Seventheen-century Dutch tin-glaze tiles decorated with typical flower subjects.
The influence of imported Chinese porcelain is
apparent in the oriental character of the corner
motifs.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tiles- History

Early sixteenth century Italian maiolica
floor tiles of octagonal and poligonal shapes made for the chapel of Bartolomeo
Lombardini in the church of San Francesco in Forli

Monday, April 12, 2010

Tiles- The architexture of Illudion

The Architecture Of Illusion

Architectural decoration in all its forms and styles has the power to raise a building from the mundane status of a simple structure to a palace of delight with new meanings and values: few materials aid this process more than richly coloured and highly glazed ceramic tiles.

Transporting users out of the grey, every day world to a ceramic-clad utopia.