tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42159241447282855982024-03-18T03:45:43.381-04:00ARCHITECTURAL TILES, GLASS AND ORNAMENTATION IN NEW YORKA blog about architectural tiles, terra cotta and other ceramic surfaces, architectural glass and ornamentation in and around New York.Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-46207500877018569222021-09-16T00:00:00.021-04:002021-09-17T11:42:28.611-04:00The Art-Deco Aztec Ballet Tiles of Agustín Lazo and the Brooklyn Bridge Grueby EaglesThe Art-Deco Aztec Ballet Tiles of Agustín LazoA number of years have passed since I first asked for help to find photos of the complete set of American Encaustic Tiling Company tiles designed by Agustín Lazo for one of Carlos Chávez’ Aztec Ballets in 1926/1927. Although I have received some responses with photos of individual tiles, four of the ten tiles are still missing. I am, therefore, Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-43998811482099286132020-02-02T00:07:00.000-05:002020-05-25T10:03:01.220-04:00Architectural Murals in Ambato, Ecuador
(Courtesy of Google maps)
I recently spent five weeks visiting friends in the city of Ambato, Ecuador and exploring some of the Andean spine of the country from Mindo, northwest of Quito, to Rio Negro, southeast of Ambato. Notes from these travels and a slideshow of photos I took can be accessed at https://mpadwee-travelsandphotos. weebly.com.
Tungurahua Volcano as seen from a streetMichael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-14515459718078767362020-01-06T18:00:00.000-05:002020-02-02T00:01:36.652-05:00The Tile Heritage Foundation; IRVA.studio
The Tile Heritage Foundation
Over the years I've acknowledged the help I've received from the Tile Heritage Foundation when writing articles for my blog. I've been a member of THF since 1996 when my wife, Susan, was writing a thesis about the International Tile Company of Brooklyn, New York (1883-1891). (Scroll down to "FILES" and click on the .pdf for an article about the ITCo that she wrote.Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-85508264353137051342019-09-01T00:00:00.000-04:002019-09-01T00:00:00.141-04:00The "Our Beth" Project: Minton Tiles and Bethesda Terrace
(For the past year or so I have only written here very sporadically because of my family situation. I will try to remedy that in the future. Below is an article written by two people who are intimately involved with this project. MP)
The "Our Beth" Project:
Minton Tiles and Bethesda Terrace
by Danny Callaghan (UK) & Matt Reiley (USA),
guest artists/bloggers
Background: Bethesda Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-52936783556729071682019-04-01T00:00:00.000-04:002019-04-03T17:02:47.863-04:00"Three Photographers--One Family" an exhibit; and the Maison Jamaer in Brussels
"THREE PHOTOGRAPHERS -- ONE FAMILY"
An exhibit of the works of Aaron Padwee, Lynn Padwee and Michael Padwee
Aaron Padwee "Rotterdam Buildings, 1994"
Michael Padwee &Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-3856555482300373382019-02-01T00:00:00.000-05:002019-03-30T16:16:17.541-04:00New Discoveries III: A Children's Tile Mural in New Jersey
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I received an email from Maddy Fraioli (1) of Zanesville, Ohio in April 2018. Maddy had just revisited her Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-34852848113019078432019-01-01T00:00:00.001-05:002021-05-01T17:32:33.150-04:00New Resources and Jean Nison Update
New Resource
Shopfront Elegy blog (https://shopfrontelegy.wordpress.com/)
A pictorial blog with explanations of many British industrial and commercial shopfronts. This blog includes a section of tiled shop fronts: https://shopfrontelegy.wordpress.com/tag/tiled/.
"Poole Arms, 19 The Quay, Poole, Dorset, 2004 • ...green tiles, this time on the oldest pub on Poole Quay: it Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-52317098246177584692018-10-01T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-01T00:00:02.303-04:00Newark, New Jersey Loses Another Architectural Gem: Science High School and a new resource
Newark, New Jersey Loses Another Architectural Gem: Science High School
As part of a larger article about Newark's polychrome terra cotta buildings, I wrote about the history of the building at 40 Rector Street in 2015--i.e., Ballantine Brewery's Malt House #3 (built in 1860), which was given an Art Deco facade in the 1930s and later became Newark's Science High School in the 1980s.(1)
Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-78743459333113566432018-09-01T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-01T00:00:00.223-04:00A Possible Early Sketch for one of Frederick Dana Marsh's Marine Grill Murals
In 1913 the well-known American artist, Frederick Dana Marsh, designed six historical murals for what became known as the Marine Grill in the newly built Hotel McAlpin in Manhattan. The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company of Perth Amboy, New Jersey and Tottenville, Staten Island fabricated twenty (including duplicates) lunette-shaped, terra cotta tile murals, that were 15 feet wide and 10 feet tall. Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-48034872621029078222018-05-16T00:00:00.000-04:002018-08-10T15:46:12.041-04:00The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part IIMy apologies, but if you are searching for my July 1 article about "The Knick", I have had to temporarily remove it.
The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part II
Below is Part II of my article about Rafael Guastavino, Jr. Parts I and II were published in Tile Heritage: A Review of American Tile History. For those who have not yet read Part I, you can do so at: Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-37620258602007629432018-04-01T00:00:00.000-04:002018-05-11T00:02:22.164-04:00The Lower East Side and Bialystoker Landsmanshaftn
Willet Street at Delancey Street, 1901. Photo by Ewing Galloway. (Photo credit: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. (1901). Manhattan: Willett Street - Delancey Street Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-6222-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99)
From the mid-19th century until about Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-32505424462570650592018-02-01T00:00:00.000-05:002018-03-02T11:09:29.484-05:00The Identification of United States Art Tiles and three new resources
March 1, 2018: My apologies to my readers. As a result of being overloaded this past month, I did not finish an article for this blog. I hope to remedy that in April. Below is an announcement about a successful preservation effort involving exterior friezes designed by Hildreth Meière and Waylande Gregory in Washington, DC. A few weeks ago we were notified by the Friends of Terra Cotta and the Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-90317643220293997172018-01-01T00:00:00.000-05:002018-09-14T18:18:58.065-04:00Tile Advertisements in the Paris Métro
SAVED!!!
On December 5, 2017 the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission voted individual landmark status to two buildings of the Empire State Dairy Company complex. The buildings, 2840-2848 Atlantic Avenue (between Schenck Avenue and Barbey Street), in the East New York section of Brooklyn are "a complex of a Renaissance/ Romanesque Revival style and Abstracted Classicist style with Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-45688777827491560402017-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:002018-09-14T18:19:52.982-04:00The Sevillian tile style: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano
The Sevillian tile style: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano
I recently purchased an undated 20th century, Spanish tile catalog: Catalogo de Azulejos de Estilo Sevillano, and I wanted to share the wonderful tile photos with everyone via this blog. The catalog, however, posed a mystery. Most of the 18 color plates had the name and address of Jose Ma[ria] Fernandez (Reyes Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-67406139046957262552017-11-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-11-26T11:43:25.164-05:00Bits and Pieces: Updates for the Lever House, the Kesner Building and 2116 Ditmas Avenue, Brooklyn and an obituary
ROBERT PINART (1927-2017), Maître de verre vitrail
We are saddened to report that our friend, stained and dalle de verre glass artist Robert Pinart, died on October 1.
Robert Pinart in Chartres, 1950s
Robert had been in deteriorating health for some time, and after ninety years his body was laid to rest in Gethsemane Cemetery in Congers, New York. His spirit and art will liveMichael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-80602920967135956612017-10-01T00:00:00.000-04:002018-01-04T17:06:40.573-05:00The Commercial and Personal Art Tiles of Rafael Guastavino, Jr.: Part I
A Correction and an Apology: the Childs Restaurants Article
I made an error in my article about the Childs Restaurants and confused the Coney Island Museum (part of Coney Island USA) and the Coney Island History Project. These are two completely different nonprofit organizations. The "Neptune Revisited" exhibit about the Childs Building was actually at the Coney Island History Project. My Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-77325949227526143132017-09-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-01T19:47:16.943-04:00The Polychrome Terra Cotta of Childs Restaurants and the Nottingham Antique Tile Fair
The Polychrome Terra Cotta of the Childs Restaurants
My last blog post in June contained a news article about an exhibit of Childs Restaurant artifacts and history in Coney Island.(1) Over the summer I revisited the restaurant building on the Coney Island boardwalk at West 21st Street, and I also visited an exhibit at the Coney Island Museum [but not the exhibit at the Coney Island History Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-69823400492633135642017-06-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-13T14:25:46.934-04:00Art Deco Commercial Architecture: Montgomery Ward’s Mid-Size Department Stores and Child's Restaurant Exhibit
Have a great summer. We'll be back with a new article about the Childs Restaurants and polychrome terra cotta on September 1.
Art Deco Commercial Architecture: Montgomery Ward’s Mid-Size Department Stores
“Piggly-Wiggly, A & P, Kress, Woolworths, Montgomery Ward, and many other stores once made the difference between a backwater town and one whose star was ascending. ...While relicsMichael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-67601654042464704842017-05-01T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-14T18:20:58.701-04:00Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M.C. Escher and The Moyer House
Tessellations: Islamic Tile Patterns and M. C. Escher(1)
“Number is the tune to which all things move,
and as it were make music; it is in the pulses
of the blood no less than in the starred curtain
&Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-63975741379910294982017-04-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-04-13T13:59:56.180-04:00Grant's Tomb, the Community and the Gaudi-esque benches of Pedro Silva AND A request for help
A Request for Help
For an article that includes a set of Art-Deco tiles designed by Augustin Lazo for Carlos Chávez' Aztec Ballet in 1927, I am looking for images and any descriptions of the tiles. The tiles were made by the American Encaustic Tiling Company.
One of the set of AET tiles for the Aztec Ballet. (Courtesy of architectural historian Richard Mohr)
The set of tiles Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-87780849693574728452017-03-01T00:00:00.000-05:002017-03-28T12:45:28.981-04:00"A Factory As It Might Be" and the 2016 Ortner Preservation Award
A FACTORY AS IT MIGHT BE
In January 2017 the London architectural design collective, ASSEMBLE Studio (http://assemble studio.co.uk) came to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to build an installation as an exhibit--a temporary, mini tile factory--within the confines of a new innovative design community’s workspace, design academy and meeting space, A/D/O (https://a-d-o.com). ASSEMBLE’s installation “takes Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-21826376871817131352017-02-01T00:00:00.000-05:002018-09-14T18:22:59.283-04:00The Atlantic Terra Cotta Company and the Beginnings of Polychrome Terra Cotta UseTo our readers around the world, let us be clear: Americans of all stripes, all political backgrounds and beliefs, are deeply troubled and shocked by the refugee and immigration orders. This is not a coastal elite issue, or a hardcore liberal issue—it is not a Democrat or Republican issue. This is a human issue, and one on which there can be no equivocation. America is a nation of immigrants and Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-36017393367314430432017-01-01T00:00:00.000-05:002017-01-01T00:00:02.634-05:00Bits and Pieces: The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and following up on the James N. Gamble House and the Charles Volkmar Overmantle Mural
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel
Drive through any tunnel built in the first half of the twentieth-century, and the interior wall covering will most likely be “subway tiles.” Subway tiles have been a boon to modern decorative arts for awhile, now, but they’ve been an architectural staple for a much longer time.
This was the view of the Manhattan to Brooklyn tube wall in December 2015. (Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-55006019287564243262016-12-01T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-03T00:00:55.207-05:00Advertising on Ceramic Art
WE WISH YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY SEASON.
No news to report yet:
There is no ruling, yet, on the proposal to landmark the Empire State Dairy Company buildings along with the two American Encaustic Tiling Company murals on one of the buildings. Landmark designation was taken up by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) last July. The owners wanted to remove oneMichael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4215924144728285598.post-33440840115588114552016-11-01T00:00:00.000-04:002016-11-19T14:17:11.854-05:00Art Deco Buildings and Their Lobbies: the Chrysler Building, the Film Center Building and the Kent Garage/Sofia Brothers Storage Warehouse
Art Deco style in architecture blended parts of many different art movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. “The art deco style, which above all reflected modern technology, was characterized by smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms and bright, sometimes garish colours. [...Art Deco] influences include the geometric forms of Cubism..., the machine-style forms Michael Padweehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11726793804731765250noreply@blogger.com0