A couple of days ago I wrote about the great tiles here in the French House
most of which we think were put in in the 1920s.
I need to match these with various paints so have been photographing them.
These are in the bedroom we call the Chimney Room
The old rough ones in the attic
The Daisies in the Family Room
The Quarry tiles which are in the upstairs hall and two of the bedrooms
And on the stairs
The Terrazo’s in the Kitchen
These wonderful Trompe L’Oeils in the Hall
post script
I should have said that the tiles in the family room, the chimney room and the downstairs hall are known as encaustic tiles (carreaux de ciment) and are a bit of a collectors item. They fetch high prices when restored.
The reason I didn’t say this in the piece ? I couldn’t remember their name.
Comments
Oscar
on May 2, 2009Martin if you’re looking for tiles for any other parts of the house which would equal the integrity and beauty of the ones you have then a French company called Carocim are well worth a look .. their catalogue can be found here http://pdf.archiexpo.com/pdf/carocim-france/catalogue-2007-integral-basse-defpdf/87-5689.html
Martin
on May 3, 2009thanks for that Oscar, a great site (is that OscarinCanada?)
Oscar
on May 8, 2009Yes this is Oscar in the Canadas, I try and keep an eye on your progress, some judicious choices of furniture by the way, will have to work on my scrabble game have only once gotten above 400…
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