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April 22, 2009
17:23 PM

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

  1. Oscar

    on May 2, 2009

    Martin 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

  2. Martin

    on May 3, 2009

    thanks for that Oscar, a great site (is that OscarinCanada?)

  3. Oscar

    on May 8, 2009

    Yes 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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