A Vintage Wall Tile Collection LOOK BOOK
To view the LOOK BOOK of our vintage wall tile collections, click here.
Our goal at Historic Decorative Materials is to stand true to our passion and niche in the tile and stone market place. With our love of antique and aged French and Belgian building materials, it became apparent that if one wanted to continue within this aesthetic, what compliment material would equate with these historic materials?
Pairing a beautifully aged French limestone paver or an aged French oak wide-plank floor with a subway tile or a sleek marble water jet mosaic back splash perhaps has its place. It is true that eclectic décor, mixing different design materials, can create intriguing spaces. And it is also true how cloying an interior can become when focusing solely on one single aesthetic, like the outdated Tuscan style ambiance with heavy architectural wood moldings and heavy decorative tile motifs in a multitude of colors.
What was the middle ground? Decorative tiles that exude beauty, history, elegance and subtlety to pair with historic materials seemed to be more of a yearning for us - not a reality.
Context. As a former high school French teacher, I learned in graduate school that to teach anybody anything - one must place information in a student's own hierarchical knowledge context. Direct translation aside, the subject pronoun "I" can be substituted with "je" and so forth. This knowledge ran through my mind as I toyed with the idea of painting my own decorative wall tile collections for our company. I needed to stay within a context of what many understood and of course, related to.
I knew from the multitude of design patterns on the marketplace today, designs are accepted and loved by many. I also realized many of these designs don't have a context for those who purchase them - but they have an instinct to love them none-the-less. My goal then was to take the love of pattern, fit it into an historic context for our French and Belgian building materials, and hopefully with the story behind the designs, the "why" in creating them - our vision would be completed and understood.
At this point, I have created four historical decorative tile collections, two more on the way, with deep roots in art history. The colors I have chosen are subtle. The decorative motifs are elegant and not overdone and they work incredibly well with antique materials without being cloying. Pairing these decorative wall tile collections with antique or aged wood and stone flooring made sense for us within our company. We know the strength of classic, beautifully made materials that transcend time and trends. We believe we did add something relevant into this tile world - and this to us, makes for a beautiful home.
We hope you will be inspired.
Thank you for your time,
Emmi Micallefco-owner, Historic Decorative Materials, a Division of Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc.
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About Historic Decorative Materials, a division of Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc.
Historic Decorative Materials, a division of Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc. is an e-commerce site that supplies reclaimed and aged French and Belgian stone, brick and wood flooring to the fine home building market. After 20 years in business, co-owner François Micallef born and raised in the South of France, holds court with some of the best reclaimed material suppliers in Europe. From French limestone and Belgian Bluestone pavers to French oak wide-plank flooring in solid and engineered planks, as well as reclaimed Belgian veneer bricks and French reclaimed terra cotta tiles - architects and designers choose these formidable surfaces for their exceptional building and renovation projects.
Historic Decorative Materials is an e-commerce site that is meant as a tool to purchase on-line reclaimed as well as highly crafted European surfaces. Drawing inspiration from historical reference, Emmi Micallef's original hand painted decorative tiles compliment HDM's reclaimed tile, brick, wood and stone surfaces. Her Delft Tile Collection, featured below, is just one of four collections, with several more to come. Sharing a partnership with it's parent company, Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc., a by-appointment showroom is available to the trade and homeowners to view and design from Pavé's showroom's extraordinary French and Belgian tile, wood, brick and stone installations. As an artist, Emmi uses the basic rules of fine painting - color/tone, light value and the saturation scale within the materials themselves and in relation to a client's home, furniture and artwork - to achieve a beautiful balance of texture, color and light throughout the theme of the home. To register for Trade Pricing, please click here.
Historic Decorative Materials NEW YouTube Channel is the venue to view and experience their antique and aged tile, brick, wood and stone flooring through video. Below, enjoy learning about their Kings of France 18th Century French Oak Flooring in Charcoal. A grey wood floor that is a symphony of light and dark charcoal grays with oak grey undertones. Neither a stain nor an oil, these gray wood floors are achieved through an oxidation process that works with the tannins of the French oak - literally changing the composition of the wood fibers.
Specializing in original hand painted tiles based on historic reference, click here or on the image below to view a LOOK BOOK of these historically accurate and beautiful decorative tiles partnered with antique and aged French oak flooring and Belgian Bluestone Pavers.
Emmi Micallef
Author and Co-owner of Historical Decorative Materials, a division of Pavé Tile, Wood & Stone, Inc.