Design for the Rest of Us

Quick Links
___________

 

Company

Profiles- Personalized Interiors 

  

 Book  

 

 Approved CEUs

 Connect the Dots:  Design Style in Context

VIDEO Excerpt

 

Susan Slotkis - Interior Designer, Professional Speaker, Industry Expert, Author & Educator
Dallas Design Center Speaker 
Susan Slotkis

   

 

  

 


Find us on Pinterest



View our profile on LinkedIn


 

 

REMINDER:  
 
If you teach interior design you may qualify to receive a complimentary desk review copy of  
Foundations of Interior Design, 2nd ed.  
Consult Bloomsbury's website for more info. 
July 2016
Headshot
FID2BookCover
Happy Summer!  
 
I hope you had a safe and wonderful July 4th celebration.  Wish we didn't have to say the word safe so often.
 
I am happy to report that Foundations of Interior Design, 3rd ed. due out early 2017 has moved on to its next phase of production. All is on schedule! 
 
I just finished another 5-part F.I.T. Hot Topics "Motifs" program.  Later this month I will start the first  NYU High School Academy Interior Design Program NYU asked me to develop. So much for the lazy, hazy days of summer.  All is good.
.

A Tale of Tiles

I live in what may be described as the Tile District in Manhattan, or should I say in the middle of tile neighborhoods?  Even at my pace, within 20 minutes I can tread on the sidewalks of Gramercy Park, Flatiron, NOMAD, and Chelsea and hit dozens of tile showrooms, both trade and retail. 

Tiles
...made of any number of materials, such as stone (e.g. marble and granite), ceramic, porcelain, or glass, are usually rectilinear in shape, and cut into standard sizes.
(Resilient and soft tiles, not the subject of this article, may include leather, vinyl, rubber, linoleum, carpet, etc.)  
 
 Mosaic 
... smaller units of tiles are often hand-set like a jigsaw puzzle, or more uniformly machine-cut and arranged in sheets. 
 
Picassiette
...loosely translated from French meaning stolen pottery, is a decorative application of tiling of usually shards of porcelain often to small projects such as frames and to layer furniture but also to larger projects, e.g. Gaudi's Guell Park, Barcelona.







Tiles have history and stories.  Here are just a few.  
   
   
  
 
   
I have my own Picassiette Retirement Project awaiting...pieces of precious porcelain, some sadly resulting from my own clumsiness; others "as is" from auction lots. They are all now safe from further damage in a carton, waiting to be fused into a glorious (and sustainable) masterpiece. Something to dream about.

Take in the beauty, even in the smallest. imperfect pieces of the whole. 

All the best,
Susan

Photos by Yours Truly!