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Back to Basics: AC’s Ceramic Tile Collections

Architectural Ceramics

While children everywhere are going back to school, let’s go back to basics and learn about ceramic tile through a few of Architectural Ceramic’s collections: Basics, London, and City Hall. Let’s learn a bit about how ceramic tile is classified. The principles used to create ceramic tile are basic.

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Vintage Tile Tour of Original Los Angeles Spec House

Tile Talk

Joe Taylor, whose encyclopedic knowledge of tile and tile history is impressive, explains that Royal Dutch cloisonné tiles were only made by one factory in The Netherlands. Moving along to the sunny south-facing breakfast nook, I was amazed by the small format mosaic on the floor and the stunning murals of Montserrat.

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Vintage Tile Tour, Continued

Tile Talk

As we finished walking through the kitchen area, we traced our way back from the utility room off the kitchen to the living room. That''s when we spied a glazed mural in the kitchen that I had previously missed. A Dutch-themed mural in the kitchen dates back to the 1920s. The master bath''s tiled floor pattern.

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Avente Tile Talk: Step Up to Spanish Tile | September 2012

Tile Talk

Project Pick: Hand-Painted Spanish Ceramic Tile Risers Aventes Spanish Tiles are beautifully hand-painted in a variety of colors and patterns on ceramic bisque using time-honored techniques. The Majolica technique utilizes an opaque white tin-based glaze that is ideal for vibrant, colorful patterns and designs for ceramics.

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Live, from the Netherlands.

Entra Magazine

The blue drawing room on the main floor faces the canal and has gloriously huge windows. ? ??.and The kitchen''s tiled ciling is vaulted between the beams. (An An idea I''d love to see recreated in a modern kitchen.) It''s a bright and cheerful place, and loaded with ceramics and painted furnishings. The ostrich.

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Contemporary Add-On Transforms This Dutch 50s Farmhouse

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Located in a village in Aalten, Netherlands, this 50s farmhouse’s renovation is a contemporary blend of the traditional and the modern. Bright and spacious, the new open-plan living, dining and kitchen area connects to the garden through glass doors. The wooden scissor frame truss is a nod to historical Dutch farms.