TILES – GENERAL
20060 TILE GAZETTEER £25.00*
Dr Lynn F Pearson, TACS/Richard Dennis Pubns, 2005, 512pp, 363 b & w illustrations + 32 plates with 68 colour illustrations, A5 paperback
The long-awaited TACS Gazetteer is here at last and what a superb production it is! This is the definitive gazetteer of publicly accessible tiles and architectural ceramics sites in the UK. Arranged by county, the text is written in narrative form with all the highlights of each area described, dated and attributed wherever possible. This should be in every tile enthusiast’s library and why not buy a copy to carry in the car when you are away from home - never miss a tile site again! Runner-up in the Reference Books section of the Nielsen BookData Reference Awards 2005!
* TACS Members: please contact us for special members’ price.
01101 EL AZULEJO EN LA ARQUITECTURA URUGUAYA, Siglos XVIII, XIX y XX £37.50
Alejandro Artucio Urioste, Linardi y Risso, Montevideo, Uruguay, Sept 2004, Spanish text, 326pp, 245 b & w illus + 160 colour plates with over 1000 illus, A4 paperback
This is a staggering book, covering the use of tiles in Uruguay from the 18th century to the present day. There is a rich and diverse heritage of tile use in the country, from Spanish and French tin-glazed tiles, through British and European Art Nouveau tiles to wonderful modern tiles from the country itself. The colour illustrations are superb,. A beautiful book and very reasonably priced.
06001 FIRED EARTH, 1000 Years of Tiles in Europe £18.00
Edited by Hans van Lemmen & John Malam, Richard Dennis/TACS, 1991, 180pp, 36 in full colour, paperback
The catalogue of the travelling exhibition of the same name, organised to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society. 18 excellent chapters outline the history of tiles in Europe and the UK, each written by an acknowledged specialist in that field. TACS members should contact us for special price!
11005 KERAMIK I ARKITEKTUREN £29.95
Sofia Tjernström, Byggförlaget, Sweden, 2003, Swedish text, English summary, 320pp, 207 colour + some b & w illus, boards
A survey of architectural ceramic from stove tiles to roof tiles, chimney pots to mosaics, bricks to terracotta,. Illustrated with examples from most of Europe this is an excellent book that seeks to look at the underlying influences that shaped the use of ceramic features in architecture as well as the materials themselves. The relatively little-known area of Scandinavian architectural ceramics is fully explored and set in the context of wider European ceramics. Recommended.
18018 LA RUTA DE LA CERÁMICA £37.50
Various authors, ASCER/ALICER, Spain, 2000, full Spanish and English texts, 360pp, 373 colour illus, 9 coloured maps, quarto paperback
‘The Route of Ceramics’ is the title of a major exhibition held in a number of Spanish venues from March 2000 to May 2001, illustrating the influences upon and history of ceramic tiles in Europe, focusing particularly on the Iberian peninsula. Using carefully chosen tiles and pictures, the exhibition and this superb catalogue produced to accompany it, examine the history of tiles from 6000 BC to the present day.
19039 LA SPLENDEUR DES SOLS FRANÇAIS DU XIE AU XXE SIÈCLE £39.00
Marc Pillet, Massin Editeur, France, 2002, French text, 256pp, over 250 colour + some historic b & w illus, cloth, dustwrapper
This is a truly fabulous book covering all forms of flooring including mosaics (pebble, ceramic, stone/marble, opus sectile, cosmati, etc), tiles (quarry, terracotta, inlaid, impressed, dust-pressed encaustic, cement, tin-glazed etc), marble and stone, wood (planked, inlaid, marquetry, ‘mosaic wood’ etc), and terrazzo. The illustrations are superb and cover all periods right up to the present day. Recommended!