Floors have been an excuse to produce art since ancient times. Your property renovation must include this period feature. You can choose from a vast selection of tile pattern designs - from the Ancient to Victorian and Edwardian period through to Art Deco. You can choose a vernacular pattern or be exotic. The pattern composition can be simple as in a cheque board to which you can add borders or intricate - when patterns flow from tile to tile. UFH will solve the ‘chill under the feet’ issue and efficiently warm your kitchen and bathroom. It's best to seal all these tiles and they can be polished.
In the photos a selection of traditional floors.
In the photos a selection of traditional floors.
Those borders are exquisite and so is the contrast between black, white and timber tone
Quarry and Encaustic tiles at the V&A Museum -They are made by the extrusion process from natural clay, pressed into shape and subsequently bisque fired. The colour is determined by the clay but can be tinted.
Ceramic Encaustic from Golem - Kunst the pigment is stencilled and vitrifies during firing and thus the surface is not as delicate as concrete encaustic.
Ceramic Encaustic - Minton c.1880's
Quarry Patterned Tiles - from Original Style - Galloway pattern and Plymouth borders.
Quarry patterned tiles, use a medieval technique involving inlaying layers of different coloured clays to create a design.
Quarry patterned tiles, use a medieval technique involving inlaying layers of different coloured clays to create a design.
Lambeth Pattern - Quarry tiles laid in a parquetry hence, Geometric Tiles
Concrete Encaustic with vine borders
from Fired Earth - the colour/pattern is a mineral dust pressed onto the tile, the surface is delicate prior to sealing.
from Fired Earth - the colour/pattern is a mineral dust pressed onto the tile, the surface is delicate prior to sealing.
Mosaic - Santa Maria in Trastevere Church - Rome
Marble Mosaic - Villa Farnesina - Rome
Stone Floor - Courtyard Campidoglio - Rome
Frey&Kerrad - c.1880
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Manufacturer Helleman, Brussels .
Provenance : Art Nouveau house in Auderghem, 1894, Belgium
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Manufacturer Helleman, Brussels .
Provenance : Art Nouveau house in Auderghem, 1894, Belgium
Frey&Kerrad - Art Nouveau 1896
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
manufacturer unknown, Belgium
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
manufacturer unknown, Belgium
Frey&Kerrad - Art Nouveau, 1900
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Manufacture de carreaux céramique de Saint-Gislain-Lez-Mons. Belgium
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Manufacture de carreaux céramique de Saint-Gislain-Lez-Mons. Belgium
Frey&Kerrad, Art Nouveau 1906-1910
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
manufacturer, La Céramique Nationale de Welkenraedt
Provenance : Private Art Nouveau house in Châtelet, Belgium
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
manufacturer, La Céramique Nationale de Welkenraedt
Provenance : Private Art Nouveau house in Châtelet, Belgium
1. Frey&Kerrad, Belgium, 1850-1870
Encaustic Concrete, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
Encaustic Concrete, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
2. Frey&Kerrad, Belgium,1850-1870
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
3.Frey&Kerrad. Belgium, 1850-1870
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
4.Frey&Kerrad. Belgium, 1850-1870
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
Encaustic ceramic, Barbotine tech.
Provenance : Fontaine l'Evêque
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Those transgressing blue squares and specifically that blue with that warm grey.
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'circular pattern corner overlaps' create a pattern structure which visually reduce the grout grid's noticeability.
This pattern composed by 4 tiles is all the more powerful precisely because the pattern runs over several tiles. when its a symbol on one single tile it feels like just a logo. Needless to say, its even better when patterns flow amongst all the tiles - adding a border is even better.
