Writing for The New York Times, Lori Holcomb-Holland featured the Watermark Collection in an article titled "Soaking Up the Local Color." In the piece, she wrote, "Deborah Osburn began making colorful tiles to brighten up a mostly beige-domi- nated industry nearly 30 years ago. And though in recent years she has been selling other artists’ designs, she has returned to her creative roots with the Watermark Collection for Tilevera, her artisan tile company. Inspired by Japanese techniques, she …
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Clé in New York Times: Tiles Soaking Up the Local Color
The New York Times features Deborah Osborn in a roundup of tiles titled "Tiles Soaking Up the Local Color." The editors note, "Deborah Osburn began making colorful tiles to brighten up a mostly beige-dominated industry nearly 30 years ago. And though in recent years she has been selling other artists’ designs, she has returned to her creative roots with the Watermark Collection for Clé, her artisan tile company. Inspired by Japanese techniques, she produced the ombré-stained tiles by placing …
Alfonso Architects Awarded the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement
(Tampa, FL)......Alfonso Architects has been awarded the building project for the Museum of the American Arts and Crafts Movement, MAACM, to be built in St. Petersburg, FL, for collector Rudy Ciccarello and the Two Red Roses Foundation (TRRF). Alberto Alfonso, AIA, will be the lead architect on the 90,000-sq.-ft. museum, which is scheduled to open in early 2016. The four-story museum will include galleries to exhibit hundreds of objects from Ciccarello's fine and decorative arts collection, as …
clé: The New Limestone Tile Collection by Deborah Osburn for Tilevera
(Sausalito, CA).......clé is proud to introduce the 17th Century tile collection, designed by Deborah Osburn for Tilevera. The collection of 12" x 12" limestone tile was inspired by 17th century delftware that had its origins in China and made its way across Europe. Tilevera honors the classic combinations of blue and white, yellow and magenta while bringing delft into the 21st century. Osburn has expanded the original delftware colors to a modern palette of pink, grey, green, teal and …
The Unbearable Lightness of Scarpa
A review of Venetian Glass by Carlo Scarpa: The Venini Company, 1932-1947 (Nov. 5, 2013 – March 2, 2014), written by JoAnn Locktov. “Scarpa had this thing for detail that would kill you with pleasure.” Ida Barbarigo Cadorin, painter (b 1925, Venice) The Unbearable Lightness of Scarpa To understand the glass that architect Carlo Scarpa created for Venini one must travel back in time—before 1906, the year of his birth in Venice, before Napoleon and …