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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. Within our hand-painted Spanish ceramic tile collection, you.ll Where would you use hand-painted Spanish ceramic tiles ? at 6:00 AM.

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Week of October 26th, 2020 –Halloween

Architectural Ceramics

Our first selection this week, provided by Architectural Digest , focuses on a Bay Area home that boasts of a rarely-seen exterior paint job along with a matching interior. brings us to the United Kingdom for this “sunken house purely made form concrete”, giving it the appearance of a villain’s dream hideout.

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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

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. In a collaboration with architect and architect illustrator Ingo Glaetsch for Gallery Different in London, iconic scenes of the city were developed in concrete by Graphic Relief.

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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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010: What Makes You a Designer

Life of an Architect

2:00 Mark] I started thinking that creativity has more to do with how a person thinks, views, and processes information rather than their ability to draw or paint well. This is 911 in the US, 999 in the United Kingdom, and 000 in Australia. Where does Creativity fit in? [2:00 While you are waiting, it is important to stay calm.

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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.