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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. AC’s Basics Collection , is a simple one with a white subway tile at its core. As a result, the tile expands and contracts.

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Tidying Up: How to Clean Up Different Tile Types

Architectural Ceramics

While we can’t help you clean out your closet by purging, thanking, or folding your clothes, Architectural Ceramics can help you clean your tile floor or backsplash. Check out the following tips below, organized into categories, to care for and maintain your porcelain, ceramic, glass or natural stone tile. Machine-Made Ceramics.

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Vintage Tile Tour of Original Los Angeles Spec House

Tile Talk

By Bill Buyok , Avente Tile. Recently, I had a rare opportunity to tour a house with Royal Delft tiles installed in almost every room. Located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles, the home tour was arranged by Joe Taylor and Sheila Menzies of The Tile Heritage Foundation for a collector. A resplendent Art Deco tile fountain.

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Vintage Tile Tour, Continued

Tile Talk

By Bill Buyok , Avente Tile. If you love tile, then you can''t miss this rare opportunity to tour a house with tiles installed in nearly every room, including some Royal Delft cloisonné decorative tiles. Yosemite Falls is the subject of this hand-painted mural from the 1920s. The master bath''s tiled floor pattern.

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Avente Tile Talk: Step Up to Spanish Tile | September 2012

Tile Talk

Step Up to Spanish Tile | September 2012. 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. Within our hand-painted Spanish ceramic tile collection, you.ll

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Master Painters Inspire Ministry Office Design in Netherlands

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

For the renovation and connection of two government ministry offices in The Hague, The Netherlands, architecture studio HofmanDujardin found inspiration in the rich color palettes used by Dutch painters Mondrian, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and others. The result is 30 colorful patterns that give each space a distinct feeling.

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Live, from the Netherlands.

Entra Magazine

Detail of a painted 3-panel screen in the dining room. ? The central stair is adorned with paintings and other antiques, like the Rococo clock and 19th-century painted sleigh below. ?? ? ??? Another drawing room, with beautifully painted murals. The kitchen''s tiled ciling is vaulted between the beams. (An