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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. It is quite possibly one of the most significant houses built during the 1920s.

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Casacor Collections

Diary of a Tile Addict

Casacor installation at Itapema Beach Place featuring tiles by Ceramica Elizabeth. Tiles from Cerâmica Elizabeth have been used with great flair to decorate 18 installations for Casacor, currently being staged at Itapema Beach Place, Santa Catarina, Brazil. A new post by Joe Simpson, Diary of a Tile Addict, June 2018.

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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.