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Avente Tile Talk: Interview with Nutmeg Designs

Tile Talk

Interview with Nutmeg Designs. Today Im excited to share an interview with Margaret Almon of Nutmeg Designs. Card & Thank you Bill Buyok received from Nutmeg Designs. How and when did you start creating the mosaic glass art masterpieces? House Numbers 1670 by Nutmeg Designs. Tuesday, June 25, 2013.

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Medieval Flooring & Encaustic Tile

Architectural Ceramics

The image above shows the intricate detail that was put into floor mosaics. Patterns ranged from geometric designs, decorative mosaics, family crests, and depictions of Christian scenes and symbols. Our knowledge of floors in medieval domestic buildings is primarily from excavated buildings or documents from the time.

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Innovations drive interest in cork, bamboo

Floor Covering News

From their well-documented environmentally friendly benefits to their unique visual characteristics, cork and bamboo flooring provide a desirable alternative to many of the commodity-driven hard surface products in abundance in the industry today. Cork stoppers are used in the pattern, and the collection is available in four popular colors.

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Janet Bennett: A Life in Design

Making Tile Modern

Bennett is a striking and elegant woman who looks quite at home in the colorful surroundings of Robert , the restaurant housed within the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan. But perhaps the question should have been, “are you the artist who designed the iconic tile murals in the Los Angeles Airport?”. Janet Bennett.

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Great Ideas for Recycled & Sustainable Wall Coverings

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

You may be surprised at how many parts of a home’s design can be made from recycled materials if you know where to look. Reclaimed wood can add some interesting texture and color to a wall. Also, reclaimed wood can come in a wide array of colors and textures. Helgason/Shutterstock. Reclaimed wood.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: This beautiful table is for sale

Kitchen and Residential Design

Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. That joinery is in the center of a table designed and built by my friend Kevin Fitzpatrick. I make it a point to keep an eye out for them though, and they tend to figure into my my photography when Im documenting farm life and local agriculture.

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Avente Tile Talk: Thanks to the Tile Heritage Foundation

Tile Talk

Tile and our Collective History One of the reasons I started Avente was my love of tile - both in the beauty of the hand painted design and the sense of place and time it conveys. A mosaic brings you back to the Roman Empire. His goal was to preserve these amazing tile tapestries of pattern and color found in Cuban tile.

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