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These Publications Can Help With Talavera Tile Design Ideas and Applications
A chic and trendy online magazine, Popular Hispanics® brings you the latest lifestyle news with a focus on entertainment & music, fashion, travel, health, sports & fitness, arts, celebrity sightings, community news, food and drink, all spiced with an Hispanic twist.
Clay Imports Artesanal is honored that Popular Hispanics® has published an exclusive article on our Talavera Tile.
Colors on Clay brings to life the rich artistry, designers, and styles that brought the colorful tiles and other ceramic wares produced by the San José Workshops in San Antonio, Texas, into prominence nationally. Intertwining art, personality profiles, and history, Susan Toomey Frost presents the first definitive account of the intriguing story of Ethel Wilson Harris and her talented designer, Fernando Ramos.
Susan Toomey Frost is the leading authority on San José decorative art tiles and pottery produced by workshops in San Antonio and Mexico. She has taught English and linguistics at universities in Mexico and Texas. An avid collector, she has written articles, given lectures, and curated exhibitions. She lives in San Antonio.
Mexicolor is the collaborative project of an artist, a photographer, and a writer all in love with the brilliant displays of color seen everywhere in Mexico. Mexicolor explores Mexico high and low, from colonial towns to dazzling beaches, from traditional workshops to contemporary interiors, from open markets to extraordinary homes and inns, uncovering the colorful artistry that permeates everyday life across this vast nation. Mexicolor is an ideal resource for anyone looking to brighten a home, and a beautiful picture book brimming with imagination, creative ideas, and pure pleasure.
In the tradition of Chronicle Book’s best-selling Mexicolor and Mexicasa, Mexicocina showcases over forty kitchens throughout Mexico. Melba Levick’s stunning photographs and Betsy McNair’s informative text and exciting recipes reveal the blend of native tradition, Old World ornamentation, and contemporary innovation that is the Mexican kitchen.
Masako Takahashi, coauthor of the best-selling Mexicolor, now turns her attention to the vibrant Talavera tiles that are such a key element in Mexican style and design. Add a festive new look to any home or garden with the ideas in Mexican Tiles. Over 175 beautiful color photographs present inspirational examples of classic and contemporary tile work, from colonial-era church facades ornately covered with Talavera tiles to vividly detailed modern treatments of bathrooms and kitchens. Tony Cohen provides a history of tile-making in Mexico, plus installation tips and a resource guide.
Hacienda Style invites you into Mexico’s artful, hacienda havens resplendent with private collections of colonial and contemporary art, antiques and found relics. Elegant arches, carved stone columns, colorful painted and tiled designs, decorative wrought iron, beamed ceilings and old doors create the essence of the hacienda’s time-honored character. Visit www.haciendastyle.com for book preview.
Clay Imports Artesanal’s authentic Talavera tiles are featured on several applications in the “Cocinas” (Kitchens) section.
Hidden in idyllic isolation, the haciendas of Old Mexico strike powerful chords with their rich mix of myth, history, and impressive architecture. With the surge in popularity of hacienda restoration throughout Mexico, the time is ripe for the release of The New Hacienda in paperback.
The New Hacienda looks at the ways in which designers and architects have integrated the visual culture of the hacienda and blended Mexican elements in new homes on both sides of the border. From ancient stone walls and arcaded portals to cobbled courtyards and grand salons, hacienda style comes alive with a spirited mix of once-forgotten objects and contemporary furniture.
Towering walls covered in flowering vines, carved stone columns, tranquil water fountains, and seductive palm-lined pools create the serene oasis that is the hacienda courtyard.
Discover the rich colors, natural textures, and design details that define the alluring, centuries-old courtyard that is the heart of every hacienda home. Hacienda Courtyards takes you on a tour of these gracious outdoor living areas, from the henequén haciendas of Yucatán to the colonial estates of Morelia, Sonora, and Oaxaca.
For decades, Mexico’s countryside has startled visitors senses with the rich flavor of its tradition-bound world. Charmed by the character and ingenuity of the Mexican people, lovers of country style are irresistibly drawn to the rugged romantic beauty of the native architecture and the soulful antiquity of their handcrafted elements. The markings and textures that decades of time and wear have left on the indigenous furnishings and objects are character marks, alive with history, color, and personality.
Mexican Country Style is a celebration of this style’s simple splendor, which is sweeping the country and making its way into the homes of top designers, architects and celebrities, including Jane Fonda and Ted Turner, Ralph Lauren, Val Kilmer, and Gene Hackman.
A dazzling photographic journey, Casa Yucatan focuses on architectural elements, water spaces, and open-air living in houses both colonial and contemporary, including haciendas and coastal retreats. The Yucatan has undergone a remarkable restoration renaissance of late: ancient pyramids now share the dense jungle landscape with revived haciendas, and colonial homes boasting high-beamed ceilings and cool tile floors posture amidst elegant plazas and renovated nineteenth-century mansions. Based in San Antonio, Texas, Witynski and Carr are the owners of Joe P. Carr Designs, a gallery specializing in Mexican furniture, architectural elements, design and accents.
