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5 Unexpected Ways to Use Tile in Your Home

Architectural Ceramics

January 2016 – Rockville, MD – Tile is everywhere. Unless you’re a cowboy, you probably see tile on a daily basis. The utility of tile in residential and commercial spaces provides a ubiquitous flora and fauna of shapes, texture, and color to the masses. Tile and installing it really is an art-form.

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The Saarinen House

The Perfect Bath

He cleverly wove decorative elements of brick, stone, tile, metal and wood into the interiors. Sometimes he would shift the placement of a rug or a detail on a building to activate an axis and heighten an awareness of the architectural surroundings. The exceptional ceramic fireplace served as a dramatic backdrop for bronze andirons.

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Janet Bennett: A Life in Design

Making Tile Modern

But perhaps the question should have been, “are you the artist who designed the iconic tile murals in the Los Angeles Airport?”. By her own admission, she’d never claimed credit for the murals which were installed in 1961, when she was working for the architectural firm of Pereira & Luckman. Modwalls Brio Blend Glass Tiles.