Tile Vault: French Encaustic Tiles

My grandmother recently moved from her apartment in Paris to a house in the countryside where she can grow old in a bit more comfort. I'm visiting now and I'm in heaven. The house is filled with incredible tile that's original to the house:

The house is in the south of France which is where encaustic tiles were born back in the 1850's. The house was built not long after that in the 1870's so these tiles have survived for over 100 years.

I noted the tile in a previous post when the family was looking for a house and stumbled upon this one. Now the house and the tile is a part of the family.

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Freaking gorgeous. I'd love to have that in my home.

posted by krisssstin on September 17th 2008 at 3:03pm
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There is a store in Berlin that still sells hand-made tiles and ceramics.
http://www.golem-baukeramik.de/eng/index.html

posted by Ophelia907 on September 18th 2008 at 5:25am
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This one seems to have the widest range I've ever seen : http://www.artetciment.com/

posted by @nna on September 18th 2008 at 6:19am
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This store in San Francisco, California has French eancaustic cement tiles. Check out their website here:

http://www.sainttropezboutique.us/products/tiles/encaustic-cement-tiles.aspx

Cheers,

Sandra,

posted by sandracohen1950 on February 16th 2009 at 12:08pm
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