E-News Summer 2015
Founded in July 1987 Tile Heritage celebrates its 28th anniversary this year. Supporters like YOU... members, major contributors, industry sponsors, generous grantors... everyone... have made possible the continued fulfillment of the Foundation’s mission to Document and Preserve tile history in the U.S., both past and present. THANK YOU!
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Tiling a San Francisco Hillside
More About the Steps
St Petersburg’s YMCA:
A Theater of Tile
Tile Envy
TCNA Provides Advantages
E-News in Print
Tiling a San Francisco Hillside
by Richard Mohr
May 28, 2015 saw the dedication of this grand art tile installation on the stairs at the end of California Street beyond 32nd Avenue in San Francisco’s Outer Richmond district where the street crashes into Lincoln Park just below the Palace of the Legion of Honor. The installation was designed by Éire-born Aileen Barr, who also hand-crafted the installation’s decorated tiles and earlier had completed several other SF tiled staircases. The undecorated tiles are by Fireclay Tile Company and Heath Ceramics, both of San Francisco; Dal-Tile supplied the treads. All the tiles were installed up the staircase’s 52 thirty-foot-wide steps by Riley Doty and Phylece Snyder. The driving force behind the project, ten years in the making, was The Friends of Lincoln Park. The total cost of the project, including extensive restoration work to the original WWI-era concrete stairs, came to half-a-million dollars.
Shards 'n Snippets Winter 2014
Joe Taylor of Tile Heritage will join Nawal Motawi of Motawi Tileworks, Ann Arbor, MI for a tile tour of notable historic tile installations as well as an overview, public discussion, of historic and contemporary tiles.
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