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    Tiles Newyork: A Possible Early Sketch for one of Frederick Dana Marsh's Marine Grill Murals

    Tiles Newyork: A Possible Early Sketch for one of Frederick Dana Marsh's Marine Grill Murals In 1913 the well-known American artist, Frederick Dana Marsh, designed six historical murals for what became known as the Marine Grill in the newly built Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan. The Atlantic Terra...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part II

    Tiles Newyork: The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part II My apologies, but if you are searching for my July 1 article about "The Knick", I have had to temporarily remove it. The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part II Below is Part II...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Lower East Side and Bialystoker Landsmanshaftn

    Tiles Newyork: The Lower East Side and Bialystoker Landsmanshaftn Willet Street at Delancey Street, 1901. Photo by Ewing Galloway. (Photo credit: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1901). Manhattan: Willett Street...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Identification of United States Art Tiles and three new resources

    Tiles Newyork: The Identification of United States Art Tiles and three new resources March 1, 2018: My apologies to my readers. As a result of being overloaded this past month, I did not finish an article for this blog. I hope to remedy that in April. Below is an announcement about a successful...
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    Tiles Newyork: Tile Advertisements in the Paris Métro

    Tiles Newyork: Tile Advertisements in the Paris Métro SAVED!!! On December 5, 2017 the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission voted individual landmark status to two buildings of the Empire State Dairy Company complex. The buildings, 2840-2848 Atlantic Avenue (between Schenck Avenue and Barbey...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Sevillian tile style: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano

    Tiles Newyork: The Sevillian tile style: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano The Sevillian tile style: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano I recently purchased an undated 20th century, Spanish tile catalog: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano, and I wanted to share the wonderful...
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    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: Updates for the Lever House, the Kesner Building and 2116 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn and an obituary

    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: Updates for the Lever House, the Kesner Building and 2116 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn and an obituary ROBERT PINART (1927-2017), Maître de verre vitrail We are saddened to report that our friend, stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart, died on October...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part I

    Tiles Newyork: The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part I A Correction and an Apology: the Childs Restaurants Article I made an error in my article about the Childs Restaurants and confused the Coney Island Museum (part of Coney Island USA) and the Coney Island...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Polychrome Terra Cotta of Childs Restaurants and the Nottingham Antique Tile Fair

    Tiles Newyork: The Polychrome Terra Cotta of Childs Restaurants and the Nottingham Antique Tile Fair The Polychrome Terra Cotta of the Childs Restaurants My last blog post in June contained a news article about an exhibit of Childs Restaurant artifacts and history in Coney Island.(1) Over the...
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    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Commercial Architecture: Montgomery Ward’s Mid-Size Department Stores and Child's Restaurant Exhibit

    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Commercial Architecture: Montgomery Ward’s Mid-Size Department Stores and Child's Restaurant Exhibit Have a great summer. We'll be back with a new article about the Childs Restaurants and polychrome terra cotta on September 1. Art Deco Commercial Architecture...
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    Tiles Newyork: Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M.C. Escher and The Moyer House

    Tiles Newyork: Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M.C. Escher and The Moyer House Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M. C. Escher(1) “Number is the tune to which all things move, and as it were make music; it is in the pulses of the blood...
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    Tiles Newyork: Grant's Tomb, the Community and the Gaudi-esque benches of Pedro Silva AND A request for help

    Tiles Newyork: Grant's Tomb, the Community and the Gaudi-esque benches of Pedro Silva AND A request for help A Request for Help For an article that includes a set of Art-Deco tiles designed by Augustin Lazo for Carlos Chávez' Aztec Ballet in 1927, I am looking for images and any descriptions of...
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    Tiles Newyork: "A Factory As It Might Be" and the 2016 Ortner Preservation Award

    Tiles Newyork: "A Factory As It Might Be" and the 2016 Ortner Preservation Award A FACTORY AS IT MIGHT BE In January 2017 the London architectural design collective, ASSEMBLE Studio (http://assemble studio.co.uk) came to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to build an installation as an exhibit--a temporary...
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    Tiles Newyork: The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company and the Beginnings of Polychrome Terra Cotta Use

    Tiles Newyork: The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company and the Beginnings of Polychrome Terra Cotta Use To our readers around the world, let us be clear: Americans of all stripes, all political backgrounds and beliefs, are deeply troubled and shocked by the refugee and immigration orders. This is not...
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    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and following up on the James N. Gamble House and the Charles Volkmar Overmantle Mural

    Tiles Newyork: Bits and Pieces: The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and following up on the James N. Gamble House and the Charles Volkmar Overmantle Mural The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Drive through any tunnel built in the first half of the twentieth-century, and the interior wall covering will most...
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    Tiles Newyork: Advertising on Ceramic Art

    Tiles Newyork: Advertising on Ceramic Art WE WISH YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON. No news to report yet: There is no ruling, yet, on the proposal to landmark the Empire State Dairy Company buildings along with the two American Encaustic Tiling Company murals on one of the...
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    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Buildings and Their Lobbies: the Chrysler Building, the Film Center Building and the Kent Garage/Sofia Brothers Storage Wareho

    Tiles Newyork: Art Deco Buildings and Their Lobbies: the Chrysler Building, the Film Center Building and the Kent Garage/Sofia Brothers Storage Warehouse Art Deco style in architecture blended parts of many different art movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “The art...
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    Topps Tiles 2 Different Floor Tile Options: Tilers Community

    Topps Tiles 2 Different Floor Tile Options ... Read more The rest of this thread about "Topps Tiles 2 Different Floor Tile Options" is available by clicking here RSS fed thread from Tilers Talk | Tile Bulletin Board
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    Topps tiles trade extra 10% off black friday: Tilers Community

    Topps tiles trade extra 10% off black friday Black Friday Bonanza: Get an EXTRA 10% Off EVERYTHING Online when you spend £300 or more – Act Now! 🔴 BLACK FRIDAY OFFER 🔴 HURRY, ends Monday 2nd December 2024! Get an extra 10% off everything* online this Black Friday when you spend £300 or...
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    UK Looking for porcelain floor tiles called Southrop Natural. Wood effect planks. Discontinued

    I’m looking for approx 25m2 of a porcelain floor tile - style name Southrop Natural, which has been discontinued. It’s wood effect and the plank size is 120cm x 20cm. I believe the supplier was Parkside. I’ve attached a photo. Thanks.

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