Diary of a Tile Addict

AUGUST 18, 2021

When the Egyptian revolution began Arto fled to Beirut, and when the crisis began in Lebanon he headed to North America. The company’s founder Arto Alajian was born in Alexandria, Egypt and classically trained in the arts. In the early 60s he travelled around America before finding his home in Venice, California.

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Tile Talk

MARCH 5, 2013

With history on their minds, I, as well as several architects and design professionals, recently toured the ARTO Brick and California Pavers factory complex in Gardena, CA. Later, when the family moved to Lebanon, Arto continued honing his artistic talents with various mediums, including installation of tiles. The Tile Art Studio.

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Kitchen and Residential Design

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Kitchen and Residential Design. Notes and anecdotes from the design world. Over the course of those five years, Ive gone from being a struggling designer faced with a collapsed housing market, to a power blogger, to someone whos now plying his trade as a blogger and marketer for other people and entities. kitchen design.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Micro apartments are designed to be space-efficient as well as LEED certified or energy efficient. They are designed so that they feel bigger and more open than their actual square footage. Even if you live in a larger space, the design and lay out of these tiny spaces can still provide inspiration.

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