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Hoboken Floors now offers a line of glazed porcelain tile for walls or floors from Italy, which includes four colors of glazed porcelain tiles and three different presses with up to 15 different glazes per tile. Mosaic tiles come in four types, along with a floor medallion. The tiles come in four. The mosaics and solids can be combined to create individual environments.
HUTCHESONS Hall, with its hand-laid mosaics, encaustic tiles and Minton fireplaces, is the ideal location for a National Trust exhibition on Glasgows glorious tiles. As an architectural feature, they adorn civic buildings, churches and institutions, grand houses, shops, pubs and tenements. The “wally close” is surely one of the citys finest inventions. Tiles came from England, brought up via the expanding railway network. Some builders would buy in a job lot, explaining some spectacular tiles in quite unassuming locations. Photographer Ron Hills record of close and shop tiles, taken before door entry systems and redevelopment destroyed many tenements, takes us all over Glasgow and Paisley, down the way to Largs, Kilmacolm and the Clyde coast. A close tile from Glasgows west end has a twin in Greenock. Hill has captured J Duncan of Glasgows beautiful panels with scenes from the Firth of Clyde, featuring the Cloch lighthouse, the Cowal hills, yachts and paddle-steamers. His interior shots include not only the tiles. The theme is continued in the painted glass door panels, on landing windows, the bannisters and railings. Another National Trust property, the Tenement House, features tiled fireplaces, hearths, washstands and umbrella stands. They are not all original to the house but, as in any home, when things got broken they were replaced with what was available. Holmwood House, designed by Alexander “Greek” Thomson, houses a wonderful display of colourful encaustic tiles by Minton and Maw. Even the larder walls are lined in attractive blue and white tiles, possibly a Minton design. A lucky find came last October. A small toilet at the back of Hutchesons Hall was demolished, uncovering an impressive mock mosaic floor. Research revealed it had been upgraded when the City Chambers was being built, around 1888, and the Lord Provost used Hutchesons Hall for all civic functions. Many of the exhibits are on loan from Glasgow museums or from private collections which contain tiles salvaged from closes, shops and showrooms during the last two decades. They come from fireplaces, washstands, floors and wally closes. Some are encaustic tiles, others tube-lined, transfer-printed, hand-painted and relief-pressed. Designs and styles go to art deco and beyond, each a work of art in its own right. Identification has not always been possible. Many of the potteries had no mark or, if they did, these markings have long since disappeared. A few of the artists employed by the bigger potteries are instantly recognisable - both William Wise and Moyr Smith worked for Minton - but the vast majority remain anonymous. Their work, however, lives on. On The Tiles is at Hutchesons Hall, Ingram Street, Glasgow from April 24 until May 23. It is supported by Murray Johnstone. Carla Sparrow is property manager of Hutchesons Hall
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