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SPECIALIZED TILE DESIGNS
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"ESPALIERS"
After visiting Bunny Mellon's Oak Spring garden in Upperville Virginia, and observing her use of espaliered apple and pear cordons as bordering devices, I became intrigued by the idea of using that imagery for a series of tile designs to solve a very pragmatic problem of painted brick walls meeting the grade line of the earth and/or paving. This stringer course presents a constant maintenance problem of peeling, discoloration, and moss accumulation. Because this condition continues at the main, north-facing entrance, a visually significant solution was needed.
I developed a horizontal design whose dimensions were extremely flexible to accommodate the varying conditions of the facade. While working on this project, it occurred to me that gardeners' perpetual problem of edging was analagous but presented further challenges by the addition of the third dimension as well as weathering conditions.
Center 8" by 8" tile with 1 1/2" by 8" cap border
To increase the scale and to create a more open pattern, blanks may be inserted in an alternating fashion. In these locations, individual decorated tiles may be placed for interest.
POTAGER TRELLIS can be made in 4" by 4", 6" by 6" , and 8" by 8" tiles in almost any color. Also available in brown transfer with hand painted colorations. As with all my designs, custom bordering tiles and the option of additions of site specific design elements are possible.
"TREE OF LIFE"
This is an extension of an early design for an alternating match 2 tile set which forms the field which can expand both vertically and horizontally to any increment of the tiles' size. I designed border tiles for all possible matching scenarios which can be combined with the field tile to create panels of desired dimensions.
LEFT BORDER TILE "A", FIELD TILE "A" RIGHT BORDER TILE "A"
TOP LEFT CORNER, TOP FIELD TILE "A" TOP RIGHT CORNER
BASE BORDER LEFT, BASE BORDER FOR B TILE, BASE BORDER RIGHT
LEFT BORDER B TILE, B FIELD TILE, RIGHT BORDER B TILE
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