Darwen Terracotta

John Glavan from Building Conservation Associates visiting our factory to inspect the replacement terracotta blocks we have made for the restoration of the wonderful Victoria Theatre in New York. Everything is now signed off for shipment and we look forward to seeing the facade brought back to its former glory!

John Fidler of John Fidler Preservation Technology and Mike Courtney of Giampolini came to visit to view the very ornate, large terracotta window we have produced for the First Congregational Church of Long Beach Church, California.
John and Mike were thrilled at the quality of our terracotta and the skills of our craftspeople.

#FaienceFriday - Here is a stunning faience sample from our lab...

This week we say farewell to Connor, we had a lovely time celebrating his time with us last weekend. We are all delighted to wish him the best of luck in his new job although he will be missed very much!

#FeaturedProject: Chinese Signs -
Take a look at the hand-crafting of these beautiful red/pink ombre Chinese signs in our factory...

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Through the eyes of our talented Sculptor, Arnold working on the Victoria Theatre, NY... 👀
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#FaienceFriday: A wonderful pink and black glaze sample from our lab...

We are ready for Christmas here at the factory!! Giving our Secret Santa gifts in our festive jumpers this morning 🎅🏼🎅🏼
We are supporting Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day today. Please text DTERRA to 70050 to support and donate £2!
#ChristmasJumperDay2019

Our work featured in the AJ Magazine - showcasing the St. Mary Magdalene Church in West London in which we provided the stunning faience tiles to clad the new build area.

Hand-Held to Super Scale Exhibition, London
Another absolutely fantastic night of informative discussion on today's use of building with ceramics. It was great to hear these presentations about some recent projects we've had the pleasure to be involved with!
Lex Harrison, Materials Specialist at ARUP began the night speaking about the projects: Leicester Square Hotel, A House for Essex, London Wall and One Eagle Place.... - Followed by Mark Walden, Head of Design at Szerelmey speaking about One Eagle Place, Academy House and Rathbone Place. - Graham Longman of Make Architecture who recently oversaw the development of London's Rathbone Square then spoke through the project. - Subsequently, Paula Gonzales Martinez, Project Director gave an amazing speech on the development of Academy House, Oxford Street.
'Hand Held to Super Scale: Building with Ceramics' is a remarkable public exhibition at the Building Centre, London. Showing until 31st January 2020.
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Today we welcomed an enthusiastic party of guests from U3A Architecture Group, giving a presentation of our favourite restoration and new build projects and a factory tour!

#FeaturedProject: Bistrotheque, The Klatch.
The cool tones of our bespoke, light blue faience tiles elegantly clad the structure of this modern coffee & beer counter. Based at CULTUREPLEX, Manchester - a stylish, new place for everyone to follow their own path and hang out; engage or unwind, socialise, graze, dine and drink.
The Grade II-listed redbrick warehouse is the latest of the city's heritage buildings taking on a revived purpose.
... Visit their website here : https://www.cultureplex.co.uk/
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#FaienceFriday: The wallpaper inspired design we created for the redevelopment of an old wallpaper factory by Chassay & Last Architects

A truly brilliant evening last night with Grayson Perry and Charles Holland, as they discussed their highly creative collaboration A House for Essex for The Building Centre’s series of #HandHeldToSuperScale events. Talking through the inspiration, production process, story of Julie and of course the great use of handcrafted ceramics... it was inspiring, insightful and expectedly humorous! To date, this has been one of our proudest and most wacky projects to work on 👏 🏠 🎨

#FaienceFriday: A stunning glaze sample from our lab!

#FeaturedProject: 11 Floral Street, Covent Garden -
The conversion of an old spa into two large retail units... Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) and Brimelow McSweney Architects incorporating our bespoke faience tiles.
Visit our website to take a look at some other projects!
... https://www.darwenterracotta.com/new-buil d
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