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Week of October 26th, 2020 –Halloween

Architectural Ceramics

Top 5 Design Posts of the Week. Our top 5 designs this week feature a selection of tasteful treats in the form of some eerie interior design tips on how to maximize the Halloween feel without going scarily. With the continuing trend of modernity and simplicity in design, black is being used like never before.

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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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Unique Fitzroy Park Home Embedded in Lush Surroundings

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

Across a narrow stone and metal bridge in North London, a modern family home rises to impose its elegant shape on the grounds of what used to be a late 1950’s house in Fitzroy Park, London, United Kingdom. Painted in dark grey, the timber brings additional texture and colour to the limestone on the exterior façade.

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Technical Texture Talent

Diary of a Tile Addict

London based surface design company Graphic Relief specialise in texture and materials, crafting unique and curious works and intricate designs. Glaetsch created the images with a fluid and textured use of drizzled acrylic paint, which was then transferred into a digital copy and manufactured into a mould. Bletchley Park mural.

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010: What Makes You a Designer

Life of an Architect

There are many things I do during a typical day – designing “stuff” is just one very small portion – but I still consider myself a designer more so than a project architect. To be considered a designer just means you need to think about the design of everything – and I mean everything. Where does Creativity fit in? [2:00

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Championing Ceramics

Diary of a Tile Addict

No, if there is an “enemy” out there, it is wood, wallpaper, paint, carpet, vinyl, plastic composites and all the other inferior surface options. So, let’s remember, the ‘enemy’ is not your fellow tile manufacturers, tile distributors or tile retailers.

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An American in London | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I have a few things in mind but I was really hoping that the friends and the readers I have in the United Kingdom would come through and let me know what I should be doing. Unlike my wife, I have been a teensy bit more lackadaisical about organizing my thoughts and plans.