Tiles
The antique tiles from House of Q have been carefully lifted from their original homes, mostly in Austria and neighboring countries.
They are then cleaned and made ready for use inside or outside your home, in bathrooms, kitchens, entry halls or terraces.
They are approximately 17x17cm and 2 cm thick.
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Cement or Ceramic Tiles?
Cement tiles are now widely used as synonym for colorful floor tiles but the exquisite ornamental tiles known from the houses build in the 1870-1920s, are actually made of ceramic.
Such tiles are also called encaustic tiles, decorated by burning in colours as an inlay, especially using coloured clays or pigments mixed with hot wax. Encaustic or inlaid tiles enjoyed two periods of great popularity in Western Europe: The first came in the 13th century and lasted until the 1530s. The second came when the tiles caught the attention of craftsmen during the Gothic Revival (architectural movement that began in the 1740s) who after much trial and error mass-produced these tiles, and made them available to the general public. In the 1930s, encaustic tiling began to lose ground to more affordable glass and vitreous glass tiles.
Ceramic encaustic tiles are exquisitely beautiful and of extremely high quality: after more than 200 years of use, ceramic floor tiles retain truly amazing colours and can be reclaimed for further use.
Many of such floor tiles present unique Art Nouveau designs with rich and elegant often floral motives.