Posted in architecture, art, california cultural anthropology, city planning, tagged architectural details, architecture, beatnik, California, mexican tile, spanish colonial revival architecture, spanish tile, tile roof on June 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Shelton is my favorite moorish/spanish colonial revival style architect… BY FAR! He makes FUN buildings. Take Gaudi’s assistant Josep Maria Jujol, mix with Dr. Seuss, toss in a bit of MC Escher… and then stir in a bunch of tile… more than a bunch actually. I think Jeff must have some sort of back door arrangement with a a mexican encaustic tile factory somewhere.
Dig around on his site… you will love it… I guarantee it!
Posted in architecture, tagged mexican tile, tile roof on October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
fantastic roof tile
Mexican Talavera tiles
There is a special quality to imperfect hand made tile. It cannot be replicated by machines. The imperfections are what makes it. This is one of those “qualities without a name”… (see Christopher Alexander’s “a Pattern Language”)
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