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Designing Interiors With Tile: Creative Ideas in Ceramic, Stone, and Mosaic
Anna Kasabian, Julie Goodman
Rockport Publishers, 2000
Designing Interiors with Tile: Creative Ideas with Ceramic, Stone, and Mosaic presents a stunning contemporary collection of innovative applications of this ancient design form. This volume includes more than 200 full-color photographs showing a variety of colors, textures, and surfaces. It shows how tile, stone, and mosaics can anchor a design theme, add an abundance of color, texture, and ...
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A History of Decorative Tiles
Noel Riley
Book Sales, 1988
Pleasurable
This book is an excellent overview of the history of tile art. I a particularly interested in Islamic tile art, and the chapter in here is informative and contains excellent illustrations. In fact, the whole book is laden with beautiful illustrations. Also delightful is a 17th century Dutch tile ...
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Art Nouveau Tiles: C. 1890-1914 (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Sandra Fowler, Wendy Harvey
Schiffer Publishing, 2001
Art Nouveau Tiles C. 1890 - 1914
Sometimes you need a good source, with photographs, for identifying the many, many art nouveau tiles out there. THIS BOOK DOES THAT!!!! Over the years I have collected some art nouveau tiles and, with the aid of this book --- IN MINUTES --- I was able to identify all of them. As a bonus a current ...
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Making & Installing Handmade Tiles (A Lark Ceramics Book)
Angelica Pozo
Lark Books, 2005
Want to learn how to make tiles? This IS the book!
+ Marvelous!
+ VERY nice, overall primer to tile making. BEGINNERS will love this book!
+ tile making
+ Making and Installing Handmade Tiles
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Tiles and Tilework
Alun Graves
Victoria & Albert Museum, 2002
An excellent basic resources for tiles en masse
The title page title of this book is Tile and Tilework of Europe.
The particular strength of this book is that it shows chiefly installations of tiles, although it does include some pictures of individual tiles; almost all of the pictures are in color. As such, it covers tile scenes, in which ...
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Flint Faience Tiles A - Z
Margaret Carney, Ken Galvas
Schiffer Publishing, 2004
Great book! Wonderful History Great Photos!
Outstanding book!
So impressed, I contacted the author because my son's school built in 1929 has Flint Faience Tiles in it.
The Author wished he knew of my son's school (Stiles) aka Oakland Steiner -- when he wrote the book
Both the book and the author have a wealth of information on these ...
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Architectural Ceramics for the Studio Potter: Designing * Building * Installing (A Lark Ceramics Book)
Peter King
Lark Books, 1999
Great for large scale ceramic projects
+ The BEST!
+ Inspiring
+ Architectural Ceramics
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Fired Earth: 1000 Tears of Tiles in Europe
Hans van Lemmen
Richard Dennis Publications Dist, 2006
History of European decorative tiles from medieval times to the present day.
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The Tile: Making, Designing and Using
Kenneth Clark
Crowood Press, 2002
The Tile Making, Designing and Using
After I got through the section on the history of tile...I don't understand why tile books all start with the same history lession, I found the book to be extremely informative and very well versed on a multitude of tile making and decorating applications. Thanks to Mr. Clark for sharing his ...
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Batchelder Tilemaker
Robert Winter
Balcony Press, 1999
Outstanding biography of a unique 20th Century entrepreneur.
Ernest Batchelder's ceramic enterprize grew from a home-based business to a nation-wide enterprize: Batchelder Tilemaker follows his life and works, starting with his 1908 venture into entrepreneurship and his establishment of the 1930s Batchelder-Wilson company showrooms. An outstanding, ...
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The Decorative Tile in Architecture and Interiors: In Architecture and Interiors
Tony Herbert, Kathryn Huggins
Phaidon Press, 1995
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Handmade Tiles: Designing * Making * Decorating (A Lark Ceramics Book)
Frank Giorgini
Lark Books, 2001
Tile Bible
+ A must for all levels of learning
+ Inspirational Images
+ Good solid book
+ Hands On!
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Art Nouveau Tiles
Hans van Lemmen, Bart Verbrugge
Rizzoli International Publications, 1999
Tiles for modern tastes....
These days, many of us are becoming reacquainted with the art of our parents or grandparents...not the clunky Victorian stuff, but the wonderful jazzy "art" of the "nouveau." Sometimes I wonder why we ever got away from it, but I suspect two world wars and an economic depression in the 20th ...
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The Art of Handmade Tile: Complete Instructions for Carving, Casting & Glazing
Kristin Peck
kp books, 2002
This book is great!
+ This Tile Book is a Winner!
This is one of the best books on tile making that I've read. It gives enough detailed information that a person can truly learn to make tiles using this book. It gives lots of tips on technique and answers most questions that might arise from a student tile maker. I checked it out from my local ...
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Ceramic Art Tile for the Home (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Deborah Goletz
Schiffer Publishing, 2001
Art tile is a truly exciting option for both interior and exterior decoration. There is a vast array of tile available on the market today, ranging in design from traditional to modern, and conservative to outrageous--the possibilities are overwhelming! This book is a wonderful introduction to art tile, loaded with ideas and resources that will charm and inspire. Hundreds of breathtaking ...
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