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Ixia Tile offers a vibrant and interesting range of ceramic tiles that combine to create beautiful finishes for fireplaces, bathrooms, kitchens, floors, foyers, window and door surrounds as well as outdoor applications such as garden benches, tables, mirrors, pools and water features. Ixia Tile’s high quality stoneware blends beauty, function and lasting durability while expressing artistic harmony that only comes from tiles made by hand.
Created in a careful process, each tile is hand-made from beginning to end. For bas-relief tiles, the design is hand-drawn and then hand-carved, often over a period of a few days. From this original carving a mold is made. Each relief tile is then hand-pressed, dried, and bisque fired. Nature print tiles are hand- rolled and imprinted with a variety of leaves and plants from nature. All tiles are hand-glazed. Field tiles, moldings and liners are hand-extruded. These labor intensive methods have been used for centuries to make art tile About the Artist: Claudia Reidner moved to the US from Switzerland in 1993. While living in Chicago she earned a degree in horticulture. After an internship in plant propagation, she was hired by the Chicago Botanic Garden and worked there until she and husband John moved to the Pacific Northwest in 1998. Claudia continued her work at Lakewold Gardens and the Seymour Botanical Conservatory before starting Ixia Tile in 2004. Claudia is the Art Chair for the Sixth Avenue Merchants Association and has worked to bring public art to the streets of Tacoma. She is also a member of Artisan Tile Northwest and The Tile Heritage Foundation. return to top design catalog installation gallery custom design options |
