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Week of May 4, 2020 – Cinco de Mayo

Architectural Ceramics

Colores y Texturas de la Ciudad de México. AD100 Designer Rodman Primack Reveals his Mexico City Residence , Architectural Digest. Located in the sprawling metropolis of Mexico City, Rodman Primack’s apartment is outfitted with several eye-catching items that come together to tell a larger story. Feliz Cinco de Mayo.

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Celebrating Distinctions in Mexican History and Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Mexico is a country whose customs are rich in tradition, be it celebrating a day in history like Cinco de Mayo with an elaborate festival, or hand-crafting Saltillo tile almost the same way today as was done at its conception decades ago. Americans often mistake Cinco de Mayo for Mexico’s Independence Day.

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Week of September 14th, 2020 – Latin American Design Influences

Architectural Ceramics

However, there’s nothing quite like the feeling of warmth and hospitality brought on by warm colors and homey furniture seen inside many Latin American or Hispanic homes. The bright contrasting colors somehow create a sense of unity and invite you inside with open arms. Top Interior Designers Mexico , Brabbu Design Forces.

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Tile Trends 2015 : Variety is the Spice of Tile

Tile Talk

The week-long event took place in Orlando, Florida and was filled with highlights including seeing long-time friends, a face to face meeting with designer Alena Capra , and listening to Ryan Fasan , Tile of Spain ''s Technical consultant, speak about trends with design. It''s not easy to recap a week of inspiration, trends, and learning.

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Cinco de Mayo: 5 Ways to Use Mexican-Inspired Tile

Architectural Ceramics

Looking at Mexican inspired tile can do the same; it started with tradition and has adapted to today’s trends. You can’t think of Mexican tile without picturing colorful, hand-painted designs. Deep, rich colors are then painted over the white. Authentic Talavera pottery and tile reign from Puebla, Mexico.

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Introducing Glass Mosaics by Erin Adams for Realstone

Realstone

Malta, Mineral and Trends are collections of beautifully colored and textured glass mosaics produced in centuries-old tradition of Molten Glass, Flat Glass, Smalti, and Vitreous Glass. Trends is a collection of mosaics with a variety of metallic and smalti tiles.

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Chinese Tariffs and their Effect on the Tile Industry

Architectural Ceramics

The unglazed porcelain has a colored porcelain patterned layer on top and an uncolored porcelain body on the bottom, which remains unseen when installed, which is great for commercial use. Those white and black hexes, penny rounds in awesome colors? Now we are looking to South America, Mexico, and India for these products.

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