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The Making of a (Transitional) Tile Mosaic in Historic Baltimore

Architectural Ceramics

January 2016 – Baltimore, MD – As a design consultant at Architectural Ceramics in Canton, a neighborhood of Baltimore City, I recently had the privilege of meeting a great couple that allowed me to create a mosaic design for the fireplace in their Bolton-Hill home in downtown Baltimore. Installation.

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Tile Research in Valencia: Part I - Nolla tiles, exhibition in the ceramics museum

Mosaicos

The exhibition is open until the 6th of January 2016. The mosaic factory was established in Meliana, a locality north of Valencia, well comunicated by road and train and near the coast close to possible shipping harbours. The size of the mosaic pieces was based on the inch system with the basic size being 1,5 '', that is 3,81 cm.

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The Best Solar Panels for 2016 — and beyond

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Or, will our demand for aesthetics, coupled with our growing interest in solar energy, drive researchers to find new alternatives to the bulky rectangle? They want the panels to be visible but still clean and concise — which means no mosaic designs.” If you Google “ugly solar panels,” you’ll find examples of block and mosaic arrays.

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Margaret Morse Nice: Telling the Life Histories of Birds

Margaret Almon Mosaics

The librarian in me is fascinated by the title of her autobiography: Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover. She studied birds in their environment rather than collecting them, and took their life histories. In my own researching this post, I came across an article, with double Margarets!