JoAnn reviews the best tile of 2012 with four stories, one of which is. The Best of Tileista: Tiles & Mosaics from Story Telling to Material Alchemy. Mosaic Art Now says of Tileista, whose full list of articles live on one page: “Tileista” is a monthly column that explores the beauty of artisan tile. JoAnn Locktov is the author of two books (Mosaic Art and Style, The Art of Mosaic Design) and numerous articles on contemporary mosaics and tile. Her public relations firm Bella …
New Ravenna Mosaics Introduces Parquet Tile in Glass and Stone Designed by Sara Baldwin
(Exmore, Virginia)........New Ravenna Mosaics introduces its new parquet tile designed by Sara Baldwin in jewel glass and natural stone. The four patterns,Truman, Newman, Rubrik, and Marshall, are inspired by the 17th century parquetry wood floors, a technique originally created for Versailles. In mosaic, each design has a linear structure, with the glass or stone cut on a water jet and assembled by hand at the New Ravenna studio in Exmore, Virginia. According to Baldwin, founder and …
C l é Introduces Modern Metallic Tile Handmade by International Tile Artisans
(Sausalito, California)........c l é introduces metallic tiles in porcelain, ceramic and limestone that have been painted, glazed, and printed with the glimmer of silver, gold, iron, platinum, and copper. Each artist has interpreted the glory of metal in their own way from the manipulation of intense heat to delicate brush strokes. In Italy, Adriano Ricchetti at Il Monile has devised a way to turn gold voluptuous, using his technical virtuosity to fuse ceramic with glaze until the two become …
Alfonso Architects Awarded Tampa International Airport Expansion
(Tampa, Florida) Alfonso Architects along with The Beck Group has been awarded the $17 million design build project at Tampa International Airport. The complex expansion will include 30,000 sq. ft. of additional space and a 40,000 sq. ft. renovation of existing space at Airside F. Project design starts this month with completion of the first phase by the end of 2012 and the entire upgrade finished by August 2013. As part of the expansion plans, further office space for airport employees will …
Introducing clé the International Artisan Tile Experience, Deb
International Artisan Tile Experience (Sausalito, CA).......Deborah Osburn, a 25 year tile industry veteran has turned her passion and love of artisan tile into the new international gallery called clé. The on line resource is a collection of hand crafted artisan tile, carefully selected from all over the world. Artists and artisan studios hail from California and Pennsylvania in the US to South Africa, Scotland, Canada and England. The materials are both traditional ceramic, marble, …