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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. The floor-to-ceiling tiled kitchen includes some amazing tile work that I have never seen before, including a tiled pantry, bread-making pull-out, and a California cooler.

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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 glazed murals in this home are just amazing!

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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 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. Another drawing room, with beautifully painted murals. The ostrich. Not a common toile subject!

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No Passport Required: 4 Global Etsy Trends for Your Home and How to Rock Them

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Japanese ceramics Coffee dripper by Kei Karachi , rust color sake cup by Hitoshi Morimoto , celadon green sake cup by Kenji Gama. Searches on Etsy for Japanese ceramics are up 15 percent. What makes Japanese ceramics so special is that no two are exactly alike because they are handmade.

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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.