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[00:00:01] Speaker A: Tilecast news features and analysis brought to you by Diary of a Tile Addict.
[00:00:51] Speaker B: Okay, first social si is over. So what do we see? Joe, give us your overview.
[00:00:59] Speaker C: Right, well, the first thing we saw was what we didn't see, which was wallpaper effect tiles after last year when they were absolutely everywhere. I was expecting to see more this year, and they were conspicuous by their absence, I thought.
But what we did see were a lot of people bigging up their Tiling heritage. So I've been coming to the show for a long time, and the last person I can remember seeing hand painting a tile was Marlborough ceramics way back when, and there were several we saw today where there were people actually hand decorating ceramics. And there were lots of timelines around. Perhaps that's down to the 40 year theme of this year's show, but lots of people showing what they did in the cetera. Quite interesting.
How about you, Han?
[00:01:51] Speaker D: I thought there were a lot of wallpapery.
Maybe our definitions of wallpapery are different, whereas I see anything that's a large scale decorative piece, I just lump that into the wallpaper effect pile. Maybe you think that they belong somewhere else?
[00:02:09] Speaker C: Well, I suppose I was defining it as the one by three meter continuous pattern ones that were designed to be used next, but I haven't seen many of those. I saw a few bookmatch marbles and that sort of thing, but the ones which had the big tropical foliage or the roses or things like that, I wasn't seeing them today.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: No. Well, in comparison to last year, definitely there weren't so many. But there were quite a lot of tropical things last year. Definitely tropical.
[00:02:37] Speaker D: Still very much everywhere has been, I think, since 2019, at least.
[00:02:43] Speaker C: Maybe it depending which hall you're in. As I say, this is only after the first day.
[00:02:47] Speaker D: Which halls were you in?
[00:02:49] Speaker C: That was largely we were in 3036-2526 with the main four for us.
[00:02:58] Speaker B: We were trying to do an overview, so yeah, we all split up. So Hannah was going solo with Dan, and Joe and I were going round. And it's interesting that we've come back with different perspectives.
[00:03:13] Speaker C: Yeah, I mean, there obviously were one or two outstanding kind of things which you could maybe put in the wallpaper effect thing, like that boxed pattern, dado level, I don't know what you call it. Patterned colored one, the pinky and the.
[00:03:31] Speaker D: Green and the creamy, but I don't know what like a wood like paneling?
[00:03:36] Speaker B: Yes, that's the first time I've seen that.
[00:03:38] Speaker C: Yeah, first time I'd seen it as well. Had some interesting shaded effects. And it was very three dimensional.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I thought trying to camouflage grout lines was quite a thing. There seemed to be a lot of trying to make a big mess of a tile without really seeing the lines. I think it was particularly where there was a vertical three dimensional pattern and it was like the the Grout lines disappeared because of the way it was put together.
[00:04:07] Speaker C: There were lots of new versions of wood effect tiles with vertical patternings on them, a bit like the ones that we saw last year, which were designed to look like the deck of a fancy yacht. But these ones were much more two woods put together in non strips or wavy formats. Lots of those sort of softening the wood look. Plenty of yeah. Hannah's nodding.
[00:04:32] Speaker D: I'm nodding. Yeah.
[00:04:33] Speaker B: A favourite so far.
[00:04:37] Speaker C: Favourite tile or favourite look?
[00:04:40] Speaker B: Neither.
[00:04:41] Speaker C: Okay.
Well, I thought if I had to single anything out I did think, admittedly, we started there, but it was, I think, still was. The thing I would refer back to was all three brands from Peronda were outstanding. I thought. Really liked everything they were doing, pretty much. I love their colored 3D rectangular tiles, which you could use either like waves or as folded linen. Thought they were beautiful. I really like some of the new polished effects with very soft detailing. Thought they were lovely.
And I quite like some of the micro finish, split face stone effects that we're seeing around the place. I think they're nice and that hard to describe it, but that one little U shaped curly decorations on a stone format. Going to have to come up and name it. But it looks wormy is what mom said.
Micro wormy.
We're going to have to come up with better words for it. But I really like that.
[00:05:51] Speaker D: Something more appealing.
[00:05:53] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:05:54] Speaker D: For me, I think it's because it was a surprise to come across it was the TN Corporation, the Japanese with the hand painted yes, I love those, the hand painted pieces. I think they had blue and pink. They were just really quite I thought.
[00:06:13] Speaker C: Their whole stand was exquisite.
There's something very small and considered about them.
[00:06:19] Speaker D: You can just see the contrast, whether you come from these massive stands with all these massive patterns or stone effects, and then you just see at the corner of your eye this little watercolor no.
[00:06:35] Speaker C: I thought their stand was beautiful. I didn't have to go on and just say to the bloke, we're big fans, because it turns out we are.
[00:06:43] Speaker B: The little wormy one. By the way, I've just sort of back at my photographs. It was ABK. It's called curve, that one. It was part of a range of.
[00:06:53] Speaker C: Yes, it was done by an external designer whose name is currently escaping me. But you'll be able to tell me who it was, I'm sure.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: I think that was paola narone.
[00:07:02] Speaker C: Absolutely. That's exactly who it was.
Yeah. No, I thought all their effects are really nice, but it was a very interesting stand. In fact, the whole of the ABK group came over.
[00:07:15] Speaker B: Well, I thought, as they did last year, actually, they didn't make quite a big thing of the cooking.
[00:07:24] Speaker C: Francesco de Mayo.
Big fan. I really like the green floral shower.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Yeah, that's installation.
[00:07:32] Speaker C: That was lovely.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:34] Speaker D: Did you see 41 00:42?
So dye?
[00:07:40] Speaker C: I haven't didn't get the 410.
[00:07:43] Speaker D: That was a lot of color, a lot of pattern.
I would class them as wallpaper effects. They had I can't remember the names of them all now, but they were so a vibrant teal, for example, with a pink relief decor, drawing, a lot of them. A lot of these combinations really very nice to look at and enjoyed that stand a lot. And I think the displays, the large scales aren't actually tiles. So I was a bit confused when I walked in there and I felt them and I was thinking, these aren't tiles. But then the smaller ones on the side, you could tell, okay, this is a plan. I presume.
They're very cool, very pretty colors.
[00:08:32] Speaker B: Anything new? I saw a lot of mustard, but maybe I was looking for it.
[00:08:37] Speaker C: I think it was pretty much as we had predicted. It's very similar to what was last year, but slightly more intense and particularly strong in the blue and blue green ones. The kind of ones we will argue about as to whether it is blue or whether it's green. Saw a lot of those ones that they had basically SoftEd out of and called them sky, which seems to me open it and we saw a lot of quite intense brick red, blood red, that kind of color. Either as a big field tile, where it was very much about the dark clay look, or as an accent color, where it was more about the look. But the other things, I think we were predicting, the paint or stucco effect ones, which is all about the materiality. We did see those.
I managed to find a couple examples of my cubist prediction, but that's probably because I was definitely looking for it.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: Maybe you could find anything if you really want to find. There probably is something for everybody, isn't there? In terms of patterns and colors, but.
[00:09:47] Speaker C: Definitely the 3D elongated beast that you can use on curves. We did see that because people were demonstrating them on curves. So that definitely was out there. And I think they were really nice.
[00:10:00] Speaker D: I feel like I saw quite a bit of the 90s seeping in I don't know what to call them. Almost bubble gummy. Imagine a young girl's bedroom in the 90s. Maybe these light purples, pinks, blues. Maybe bit more vivid oranges. I think I saw quite a few of them that it stuck out to me and I've been making a list.
[00:10:26] Speaker C: Yeah. And I think the other thing that we particularly noticed were like a marble effect with something like been overlaid, over the top of it. So almost like a shadow decor or could have been metallic. They were doing them in vitrosa effects. They were doing them in metallics. And so you kind of looked through the pattern to the stone or was it the other way around?
[00:10:57] Speaker D: There was almost an art installation.
[00:10:59] Speaker C: There was one that was actually done like an art installation. You actually couldn't get right up to it because they made it so you.
[00:11:08] Speaker D: Couldn'T walk from one side. It looked a bit like a Petri dish growing something, until you went to the other side and saw the veining and you realized what you're supposed to be looking at.
[00:11:18] Speaker C: Yeah.
Yes. There was quite a lot of that sort of stuff.
One or two quite sort of pretentious stands, I thought, which demanded a lot of you. You had to kind of walk along as though you were going somewhere between a prison and an art gallery. Wasn't sure which.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: Yeah, there were a couple of very art installations.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: Yeah. And a few wait. They were kind of trying to enforce strict entrance codes, which always gets right up my nose, but maybe that's just me.
[00:11:54] Speaker B: I think they just want to know who's visited. I think that's fair enough.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: Yeah, but not when you have to go to a central desk to register before they'll let you into their stand, because their tiles are so very precious.
Can't be doing with all that.
[00:12:10] Speaker D: Did you think of the stand with the archway and you go through a curtain? Did you see that?
[00:12:23] Speaker C: No, but I will have a look at it tomorrow.
[00:12:26] Speaker D: You should go through the curtain and.
[00:12:28] Speaker C: Magic Wonderland behind it.
[00:12:30] Speaker D: Yeah, dan went through it to see I'm not going to.
[00:12:34] Speaker C: Is that what he drew, his second head?
What else did we see? I saw quite a lot of five centimeter wide tiles by up to 300 mil, but mainly five x 15s strips, strips parallel or in a bonding saw. Quite a lot of that. Was quite surprised, because from a distance, I was assuming that they were ragged edge tiles that were designed to lock together, and then I realized they were individual pieces.
[00:13:12] Speaker B: Yeah. So you need to find the right Tyler for that.
[00:13:14] Speaker C: You do need to find the right Tyler.
[00:13:17] Speaker D: I can't think of who stand it was now, but it looked like torn bits of corrugated cardboard.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Did you see that?
[00:13:29] Speaker C: Oh, it was called I think it was corrugated cardboard. Corrugated corrugated cardboard.
[00:13:34] Speaker D: Carton.
[00:13:35] Speaker B: Was it called carton?
[00:13:37] Speaker D: Yes. That was Aparici then.
[00:13:40] Speaker C: That was Aparici.
[00:13:42] Speaker B: Now. Remember that one. That's good.
[00:13:44] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:13:44] Speaker B: In fact, quite a few sort of distressed looking, trying to create a well worn effect.
[00:13:53] Speaker C: Wabby sabby.
[00:13:55] Speaker B: Right. Whatever you say.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Shabby chic.
[00:13:59] Speaker B: Shabby chic.
[00:13:59] Speaker C: I'll just keep saying random words about worn effects. And obviously they had the Francesco cigar on Ferranda with one of those, where they had the Spanish and Sicilian bars with some lovely distresses.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: It was lovely. Annie did Me, the designer of those, so that was nice.
[00:14:18] Speaker C: Yes, we did. Had our picture taken with Mr FS himself.
That was good.
[00:14:24] Speaker B: So a lot of these images are up on the YouTube site at the moment, but obviously Hannah will be doing a lot more in depth as time goes on and we will report Instagram and she will be on Instagram and there'll be a lot more tomorrow, although.
[00:14:38] Speaker C: Hopefully we'll be and tune in tomorrow. We're going to be having a head to head, face to face, whatever you want to call them, with Betty Tandu, who's the editor of Tile Today in Australia. She's experiencing her first chair sigh and she's going to tell us all about it.
[00:14:53] Speaker B: Yeah, fresh pair of eyes. Be lovely. Nice to know what she thinks. Okay guys, well we better go get some to eat and we'll see you tomorrow.
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