Tile Makes the Room: Good Design from Heath Ceramics

I love this book. The cover has wonderful texture and the pages are printed on wonderful paper. I'm a bit of a book nerd and I love having this beautiful creation on my coffee table.

For such a big book, it fails to give me what I need: ideas for tiling a bathroom. All of the tiles in this room are from one manufacturer and the design appears limited.

Love this book, the pictures are so beautiful. I've never had a coffee table book until now. The pictures make me happy. Love Heath Tiles, wish I could put them all over my house.

Beautiful book, I bought it as a gift and my daughter loved it. Both of us love the Heath company, and this is another example of why we do.

If you’re looking for inspiration, obsessed with tiles, or about to tackle a tile installation, I would highly recommend starting your search here. This book is about ideas, the premise of which begins with an appreciation for human needs and improving experiences in our daily life. Robin and Cathy have approached this book with the same dedication to quality, as they have done in building their business, Heath Ceramics. The book benefits from more than a decade of the authors’ love of clay, and their countless experiments, exploring creative ways of working with it at their factory. The Heath owners are blessed with superb taste, judging by the wonderful, handcrafted products they produce each year at Heath. So, their book is the same deal.The stunning photographs present their aesthetic vision of contemporary spaces, supported by contributions from an incredible roster of highly regarded designers, friends and collaborators, including Ilse Crawford, Commune Design, Leslie Williamson, Neisha Crosland, Volume and Bestor Architecture to name a few of my favorite creative individuals and companies. Each spread shows how tile is the magic sauce in transforming a space. Engaging and captivating, the book is a gorgeous design object itself. There’s nothing else like it!

This is incredible, as a potter I love the information and the love show in this book. The photographs are fabulous, I really love the Spanish tiles - I just wish I had the courage to use them and hang what the fashion dictate. There is such a lot information that I gain from this book - take white tiles for instance - there is no such thing as just white tiles - the colour can be influenced by light, shade other colour surrounding, whether the tiles are gloss or matt, if the tiles have white on white design and how they are laid, I will never again look at white with disinterest. I found the introduction very interesting especially the look inside the factory and how they make the tiles. really enjoyed the book. It is a book I will continue to dip intoThis book was supplied to me in return for a honest and unbiased review

I very recently embarked on the adventure of turning a small, 100-year-old house into a space that reflects a love of both new and old, and blends the two gracefully, and this book could not have arrived at a better moment! I’ve always been drawn to tile, but it turns out the tile work that I regularly gorge myself on while traveling- ornate, over-the-top, pattern after pattern- isn’t what I want to live with at home. Gorgeous photography aside, what I love most about this book is the attention given to really subtle treatments. Where pattern is present, it’s allowed to star with breathing room, and otherwise the examples they’ve chosen, while strong on composition, seem like calming spaces. I especially appreciate the images of older tile and fixtures, selected with an eye to simplicity. To me, the book comes across as an invitation from the authors to step into a way of thinking about tile that they’ve come to over time, by living with it, producing it, and finding it a great medium for connecting and collaborating. I really love that intent- so different from just a survey of tile. They’ve captured something that’s really refreshing, and I can tell already this will be in the “refer to often” pile as we start to re-imagine rooms!

When I got this book I had low expectations. So many tile books are unexciting cut and paste works of manufacturer's photography and dated stock images. Because this was from Heath Ceramics, I figured I'd take a chance and finally I've found great, useful book worthy of the subject. I use it as a source of inspiration and ideas for new projects. The authors have so much knowledge of the subject and there's plenty of great photography of fabulous rooms and installations. A smart, beautiful gift book for anyone who loves good design.

Etant fan des autres créations de Heath Ceramics, je m'attendais à mieux. Certes le livre est beau, mais j'attendais plus. Les plus beaux carreaux présentés sont ceux en couverture!