NOW: WHAT’S HAPPENING?

Tile Art Design’s Midwest Driftless Map Mosaic installation on the floor and walls of a residential sunroom is finished! Photos of the completed project have been uploaded to our FLOORS, WALLS, & CEILINGS page HERE.

The drawing above is another mosaic map project that we recently designed, and ordered mosaic materials for. This will be a map mosaic of the Starkweather Creek and a portion of Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin. Our clients’ home is near the creek, so they liked the idea of having a map of the creek - surrounded with a random mix of handcrafted ceramic tiles in various sizes and shapes, and glazed in 10 different colors - as a mosaic to be displayed on the face of their new bathtub deck. We will be assembling the mosaic and installing it on a 2” thick building panel prior to delivering it to their home, to make installation more efficient. Also, we plan to enable them to take it with them when they move, or to hang it on a wall elsewhere in their home down the road. We’ll add the photos of this Starkweather Creek Map Mosaic to our BATHROOMS page as soon as it is installed, in April, 2024.

 

The image/drawing above shows another custom mosaic that is ready for installation on a fireplace surround located in Aurora, NY. Our client wanted us to create a wisteria vine mosaic similar to the Frank Lloyd Wright designed fireplace located in the Darwin Martin House, recently restored in Buffalo, NY. For more information about this project, see #25 on our FIREPLACES page HERE.

 

Tile Art Design’s client provided the sketch for this custom sun mosaic shown above. We furnished the tile materials, created the 36" diameter mosaic, and then installed the winking smiling sun face onto their residential foyer floor. This mosaic was composed of broken, tumbled quartz, 6 colors of glass, and 3 colors of quartz-urethane grout.

 

The photo above is from “The Artful Restroom,” a single occupancy destination restroom located in the Wisconsin Union, which is the department of Social Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison. You’ll find The Artful Restroom in the Lower Level of the West Wing, on the Map/Directory of Memorial Union HERE.

If you don’t want to look at the map of Memorial Union, and you are in “Der Rathskeller,” head west down the hall past “Der Stiftskeller,” and take the stairs or elevator down. Turn left, and you’ll find the restroom at the bottom of the stairs, kitty-corner to the entrance of Wheelhouse Studios.

This may be the only place on campus where you can relax in solitude, while enjoying artistic and meaningful mosaic surroundings. There is a plaque located outside the door, acknowledging this unique TileArt LLC installation. You may wish to consider the Artist’s Statement, on our HOSPITALITY & WELLNESS page HERE, while taking a break in The Artful Restroom.

 

Also, please click HERE to view the National Tile Contractors Association’s TileLetter article, featuring Tile Art Design’s work in “Promoting Well-Being.”