Clé is featured in Elle Decor In this tile feature titled "TOOLBOX" Mieke Ten Have deems these tiles fitting for "Starting over-or just refining what you've got? These inspiring ideas and terrific products will improve any room in the house." She goes on to say: FAIR AND SQUARE The new artisanal tile firm clé has teamed with South African painter Ruan Hoffmann for a limited-edition series of limestone squares with bold, hand-drawn graphics. The 12" sq. tiles cost $120 each and come in three …
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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 …
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, …
Introducing Hearst Castle Collection by Tilevera
(Sausalito, California)........In 1919 newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was tired of camping in tents on his 250,000 acres on the coast of central California and hired celebrated San Francisco architect Julia Morgan to "build a little something." For the next twenty eight years craftsmen labored to construct the elaborate Hearst Castle. The majestic estate is a reflection of Morgan's engineering prowess and integration of Spanish Colonial, Mission and Moorish Revival architectural …
Texas Artist Julie Richey Wins Best 3-D Award for La Corrente at Mosaic Arts International
Austin, TX........Texas artist Julie Richey has received Best 3-D Mosaic honors from the 2011 Mosaic Arts International, an annual international juried exhibition of contemporary mosaic art. Richey's figurative dress sculpture in marble, glass smalti and seashells is entitled La Corrente (The Current). "La Corrente is about beauty amidst destruction," says Richey. "It was created during the Gulf oil spill and it alludes to the many destructive forces, both man-made and natural, that …