By Carol Belanger Grafton
Spectacular plates reprinted from infrequent nineteenth- and early-20th-century English, French, and Spanish brands' catalogs. four hundred royalty-free examples encouraged via greater than 2,000 years of tile designs produced by way of the civilizations of Islam, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, between others. biggest number of colour tile designs in one quantity.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grafton, Carol Belanger. 400 Traditional tile designs in full color / selected and arranged by Carol Belanger Grafton. p. cm. (Dover pictorial archive series) ISBN 0-486-26952-3 1. Tiles—Themes, motives. I. Title. II. Series. Y. 11501 PUBLISHER’S NOTE The grand style of public, palatial and ecclesiastical architecture has long entailed the use of decorative floor and wall tiling, which still today strikingly enhances the effects of splendor and permanence integral to the architectural conception.
Mineola, New York Copyright Copyright © 1992 by Dover Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. , in 1992. See the Publisher's Note for the sources of the plates. This book belongs to the Dover Pictorial Archive Series. You may use the designs and illustrations for graphics and crafts applications, free and without special permission, provided that you include no more than ten in the same publication or project. (For permission for additional use, please write to Permissions Department. Dover Publications, Inc..
Thomazeau of Cérizay (Dèux-Sevres) and Marquet Frères of Andrézieux (Loire); plus a collection by the French artist A. Cheneveau and published by the Maison F. Delarue &. Fils, Paris. Many of the designs are credited, several to artists and architects of some reputation in their time. They appear, of course, greatly reduced, reflecting ratios of 1:6,1:8,1:10, 1:15 and 1:16. In the original catalogs the tiles are recommended for use in a variety of buildings (schools, churches, conservatories, public buildings) and areas (courtyards, halls, vestry rooms, lobbies, vestibules) and for numerous specific surfaces and purposes (fireplaces, pilasters, furniture, flowerboxes, stringcourses, dadoes, friezes, moldings, altar rails and steps, ecclesiastical pavements, inscriptions, baths, skirtings, fenders).