Handmade Tile Inspired by the Italian Renaissance: Our Firenze Collection

Above is a sample installation of Firenze Collection tiles in Dry Stone glaze, combined with our beautiful elongated diamond field tile in Balsamic glaze. We've used the corner tiles together here to form a patterned 4" square between the Fleur de Lis.

With motifs drawn from Bronwyn’s Italian sketchbooks, these tiles, in rich colours of marble and plaster, feature designs adapted from Renaissance stone carving in Florence, Venice, and Rome. Each handmade tile design in this collection is an original Terra Home creation. After a long process of creating, sketching and refining, the final design is meticulously drawn out to scale, then transferred to a block of wet clay. The image is then carved carefully into the clay, creating a relief pattern and delicate detail work, like the veins on bamboo leaves or the Buddha's serene smile. This painstakingly carved original, which can take up to a day to execute, is destined to be destroyed so a mold can be created. Once the master mold is created, subsequent tiles are pressed by hand into the mold, in a labour-intensive, traditional process. No machines or presses are used in the creation of our decorative relief tiles - just the touch of the human hand.

Above: Venetian Urn, 6" x 8" decorative relief tile. Available in a range of glaze colours, shown here in Dry Stone. Click on the image to see full page.

Above: Firenze Border and Corner, 2" x 6" border tile with rounded glazed top edge, and coordinating 2" corner piece with two glazed edges. Available in a range of glaze colours, shown here in Dry Stone. Click on the image to see full page.

Above: Florentine Fleur de Lis, 4"decorative relief tile. Available in a range of glaze colours, shown here in Balsamic. Click on the image to see full page.

Click on the image at left for a full size, high resolution printable file of the catalog tear sheet for our Kyoto Collection. For current pricing contact Bronwyn, (bronwyn@linguaterratile.com) to request a wholesale, trade, or retail price list. Wholesale pricing is available to showrooms and retailers who carry our tiles. Trade pricing is available to professional interior designers, architects, building contractors and developers, landscape designers, and interior decorators. For more information on how to order our tiles, visit our How to Order page here, or call 250.335.3149.

Bronwyn with her sketchbook in the garden of her apartment in Florence, 2001.