In this blog we have invited a selection of expert members of The House Directory to offer insights and guidance for how to choose the best ...
The Surface Design Show and Tile of Spain
The Surface Design Show, 8-10 February, 2022, held at the Business Design Centre, welcomed more than 100 exhibiting companies and organisations displaying a wide range of ...
Ceramic art: Craven Dunnill Jackfield collaborates with Frances Priest
Frances Priest’s ceramic art installation at Edinburgh Hospital is engaging patients, staff and visitors with its visual warmth and texture. Completed in December 2018, the work ...
Modern Day Mosaic – the use of mosaic in contemporary interiors
An exploration of mosaic and its contemporary uses, with work by Pierre Mesguich. From its ancient origins and seemingly endless possibilities in both design and materials, ...
Reclaimed encaustic tiles from Maitland & Poate
Maitland & Poate is a family-run business. Driven by a passion for stunning tiles and interiors, they travelled throughout Andalucia in Southern Spain, determined to find ...
Restoration of Oldham Town Hall
In 2009 Oldham Town Hall was named by the Victorian Society as one of the top ten endangered buildings. After a £37 million re-development, the Grade II ...
Vintage Brick tiles from Craven Dunnill
Craven Dunnill has introduced Vintage Brick, a new collection of brick-style ceramic tiles available in a choice of four mixed earthy tones. Featuring rounded corners, irregular ...
New geometric tiles from Fired Earth
Geometric pattern continues to be popular, and Fired Earth’s stunning new tile collections include Encaustic tiles in sumptuous colourways, Ravello tiles inspired by the hand-painted tiles ...
Series S- Balineum’s new collection of hand painted tiles
Decorative tiles have adorned bathrooms across Europe for centuries. From the ports of Amalfi to the villages of Portugal, artisan-painted tiles capture the essence of the ...
Floors of Stone’ new ceramic tiles
Floors of Stone have just launched an exclusive range of handmade ceramic tiles, created and designed in their on-site ceramics studio, at their Cotes Mill showroom. ...
Craven Dunnill’s new Ludlow tile collection
Specialist tile company Craven Dunnill has launched the new Ludlow Collection of elongated brick-shaped wall tiles with a hand-made look and a pretty palette of colours. ...
Bert’s Barges
Bert & May, known for their distinctive reclaimed and new tiles, have just launched Bert & May Spaces, and Phase 1 is ‘Bert’s Barges’, in urban ...
Bert & May’s first glazed tile collection
Bert & May, London-based designers and specialists in reclamation and reproduction, have launched their first glazed tile collection. Highly suited to wet rooms and walls, and ...
The Blues Kitchen’s faience bar
The Blues Kitchen in Shoreditch has recently opened, complete with a striking faience-fronted bar made from ceramic tiles by Craven Dunnill Jackfield. Victorian in its inspiration, ...
Life in black & white with Fired Earth
Monochrome schemes are timeless. We’ve picked out some of our favourite black and white wall & floor tiles from Fired Earth‘s new Tile Collections – there ...
Bert & May’s Azure collection
Pop down to The Conran Shop on Fulham Road before the end of August to see Bert & May’s new ‘Azure Blues’ collection of geometric and ...
Fired Earth Underground 150 collection
Fired Earth has just launched a great new collection in collaboration with Transport for London for their 150th anniversary. There are four tile ranges, sourced ...
The Reclaimed Tile Company
These vintage encaustic concrete tiles in wonderfully striking designs came from The Reclaimed Tile Company. This family-owned business sourced some of the few remaining gems of ...
Lapicida’s new showroom
Lapicida’s new 5000 sq foot London showroom in the King’s Road brings together the company’s traditional stone working skills and leading-edge technology. There are antique ...
Neisha Crosland’s Navaho Tiles
For her latest collaboration with luxury surfaces specialist Alvaro De Ferranti, Neisha Crosland has designed these vibrant Navaho Collection of tiles, which are perfect for ...
Reptile Tiles
As if shopping at Waitrose wasn’t pleasurable enough, the King’s Road branch in London boasts these lovely tile panels by Reptile Tiles & Ceramics. They depict familiar ...
‘Best of British’ at Ann Sacks
American tile company Ann Sacks hosted an inspiring talk last week on ‘Best of British Design’ by Philip Cooper, Design Director at Sibyl Colefax & John ...
Bathroom for four boys
Photographer: Jean-Marc Palisse / The Interior Archive Architect: Teisseire & Toulon This bathroom, for the four boys of a family in Bordeaux, has been designed with ...
Popham Design
We love Popham Design‘s Moroccan cement tiles, with their original take on geometric motifs inspired by Renaissance and Islamic designs. Grouped into four collections (scribbles & ...