Clay Squared Handmade Tile Artists

Our showroom features tile by local handmade tile and mosaic artisans as well as authentic historic tile reproductions.  Our goal is to offer our clients great choices in period style of handmade tile and architecture.  We encourage you to take out samples of their work to view in your home for your custom tile project.  We also have many one of a kind art tile that you can purchase.  Enjoy.

Stone Hollow Tile - Wendy Penta-Nelson

Wendy’s stoneware tiles are infused with her love of the Arts and Crafts era and the medium in which she creates. Relief tiles are realistic and stylized, combining fine detail with the symmetry of nature. Groups of one design can create tessellations, resulting in beautiful installations. Hand painted tonalist tiles are suitable for framing, they celebrate nature from a single branch to a rolling landscapes. The soft, moody matte glazes have depth, create shadows and capture moods.

Stephanie Kaczrowski

Stephanie uses glazed commercial wall and floor tile, hand stencil designs with china paint, then fire the tile again for durability. The over glazes that I use have the look of watercolor. Hundreds of stencil designs are available, including realistic images of Minnesota fish, birds, animals, leaves, fruits, and flowers. Custom designs are also available, suitable for interior walls, floors, countertops and back splashes. They have been used in showers, fire place surrounds and as framed art work.

Mercury Mosaics - Mercedes Austin 

Mercury Mosaics offers two distinct lines.  Zen ceramic switch plate line finish off any room with flair.  Mercedes has also developed a meshed mosaic series, bubble grid, bubbles, st ix, savvy squares.  They make great kitchen back splashes, bathrooms and wall murals.  You can order mosaic sheets for installation yourself or she is a licensed tile setter and will install the project for you.

Earth Wood and Fire - Laura McCaul

Laura is a superstar in the handmade tile world, Laura has been featured on Hometime on PBS four times!  She is collected by the Minnesota Historical Society and many museums and personal collection all of the country.  We have a few tiles in the showroom at any one time and you can peruse through here amazing catalog to order your very own collectors item. 

Each of Laura's pieces is one of a kind, handbuilt and carved. She often uses her own version of a Native American firing process called blackware. She finishes her work with terra sigillata, a refined slip that is rubbed to a sheen. After a bisque firing to make the pieces functional and washable, she fires them with wood outdoors in a three barrel kiln. When the fire is hot enough, the space between the middle and inner barrels is filled with sawdust and covered. The trapped carbon is permanently absorbed into the clay producing unique earthy tones and flashings.

North Prairie Tile

North Prairie Tileworks specializes in creating ceramic tile that meets the unique requirements of designers, architects and homeowners creating or remodeling distinguished homes or restoring historic buildings. Add dramatic accents to entryways, fireplaces, baths, kitchens, counter tops, back splashes, pools and spas.

SoMi Tileworks

A mother daughter team handcraft each tile from a very coarse, white clay body. then a reverse plaster mold is made of the original sculpture. Molds are created to insure that multiple tiles are finished with equal dimensions for installations. We then hand press and hand glaze each tile. The tiles are fired to the stoneware temperature of 2140°. This gives the tiles a permanent finish to add exciting accents to kitchen and bathroom back splashes Our tiles will personalize a shower or tub area and add just the right natural touch to a country home fireplace surround.

Swan Tile - Jane Swan

Jane makes whimsical designs placed in garden tables and furniture. 

FK Art Glass - Chris Kelly

handmade fused glass made in North Minneapolis. 

Lakota Tile

Artist Catherine Rosengren make handmade tile combined with melted glass.  She uses lots of vibrant colors and patterns. 

Tina Showalter

Tina has two distinct tile lines Clay as Canvas and Circles.  The tiles can be hung, used as a trivet, or installed.

Historic tile reproduction for homes built in 1890's to 1930's

Clay Squared to Infinity is the exclusive Minnesota dealer of historic tile lines. 

We focus on representing authentic reproduction historic tile from 1890 to the1950’s

Subway Ceramics       

Subway Ceramics offers The vintage tile is 3/8" thick, with a flat surface and square edges. The Subway Ceramics collection of traditional subway tile, moldings and accessories.  Prices start at $20 a sq. ft. You can see examples of this tile in the book Bungalow Bathrooms by author Jane Powell and photographer Linda Svendsen. 

New product 1" x 1"and 2" x 2" unglazed porcelain hexagon tiles.  They come in White and Black.  All $22 a square foot includes shipping. All the hexagons come meshed.
Clay Squared to Infinity has samples of all the color for you to view and take out on approval.

American Restoration Tile, Inc.,

American Restoration Tile manufacturer of authentic historic flat, square edged glazed porcelain tile mounted on mesh for easy installation and priced from $32 per square foot. The American Restoration line also duplicates patterns, borders, corners, and medallions for new construction meant to recreate the feel of the past. Visit our showroom to view samples.

Prices for American Restoration Tiles

B & W Tiles

For those of you with Mid-century homes B & W Tiles offers glazed products product line includes over 48 different colors, including many colors from the 1920's to the 1950's.

We have soft yellow, green, blues and tans as well as many intense colors such as cobalt blue, black and root beer.

They produce over 80 different pieces of trim to match our wall tiles. If we do not currently have a trim piece in stock, they will gladly make it for you.

Their specialty pieces, including our liners, chair rail, cornice, moldura, and relief pieces, can all be special ordered in any of the colors we manufacture.

The most popular color is our 10W Antique White. It is our warm-white with a semi matte finish, reminiscent of the tiles of 50 years ago.

Seneca Tiles

From America, Ohio craftsmen have developed the most unique real clay terra cotta available. Not a glazed replica of this most storied product, but an authentic unglazed tile with a rich centuries-old appearance. Only from hands-on craftmanship, combined with the “soaking” and “flashing’ of Seneca Tiles turn-of-the-century beehive kilns, can such authenticity, character, charm and unique originality emerge. Seneca Cotto has the worn and weathered texture found only in a truly handmade product made centuries ago.

As a manufacturer, Seneca is the largest producer of authentically handmade tiles in the United States, and a recognized leader in manufacturing rustic, glazed tiles and unglazed paver tiles.

Tile Restoration Center

Tile Restoration Center is a small tile company in Seattle, Washington dedicated to producing historically accurate reproductions of American Arts & Crafts tile makers such as Ernest Batchelder and Claycraft.

Ernest Allan Batchelder was a leading designer of the American arts and crafts movement, already well known when he founded his own tile company in Pasadena in 1909. After studying at the School of Arts and Crafts in Birmingham, England, he taught at the Harvard Summer School of Design, organized the Handicraft Guild in Minneapolis, where he taught summer courses, and directed the department of arts and crafts at Throop Poly- technic Institute in Pasadena.

You might have a Batchelder installation in your house and not even know it. 

Tiles for fireplaces, fountains, floors, wainscot, kitchen, and bath

Click here to see there catalog

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