| The marriage between fine art tile and high end | | | | are created to receive tile are made in a Pacific Rim |
| furniture has been a long time coming. | | | | assembly line. They are unexceptional, with boxy, |
| Customized imaging, a process with which you press | | | | uninspired lines. The wells routed out to receive the |
| images on tiles using a heat press, specially coated | | | | tile are never sized properly, often forcing the use of |
| tiles and special dyes, has generally remained in the | | | | grout to awkwardly fill huge gaps on the sides. |
| realm of Aunt Ethel's photo on a tile ("We Love You | | | | Additionally, tile furniture has been relegated to |
| Aunt Ethel!") or the local football team on a tile mural. | | | | Walmart's low end patio furniture department. |
| The process itself is rarely used for fine art. | | | | That's why we've embarked on an unprecedented |
| Generally speaking, those who sell custom imaged tile | | | | marriage between custom art tile and fine, |
| and related substrates are not artists. The subtleties | | | | hand-carved wood furniture, offering a |
| and skill required for quality tile creation, such as | | | | ground-breaking concept: let the customer design |
| formidable digital art skills like designing from scratch, | | | | their own fine furniture down to the leg, frame and |
| retouching, airbrushing, cropping, etc., are the | | | | cockbead, stain, finish and embedded art tile.From |
| exception rather than the rule. | | | | hand-carved armoires to luscious end tables to |
| When my husband and I opened our art tile | | | | heirloom-worthy coffee tables, The Painted Forest |
| company, we were intent on changing that tradition. | | | | has succeeded in taking both tile and fine furniture to |
| Our numerous galleries of original art have succeeded | | | | a brand new level, something only fine art custom |
| in giving art-appreciating tile customers a formidable | | | | imaged tile could have achieved. |
| selection from which to choose, not to mention an | | | | As far as Aunt Ethel goes, there are always going to |
| unheard-of option: custom, "from-scratch" design. | | | | be hundreds of people who can slap her photo on a |
| What has also remained elusive was putting that | | | | tile. But the China Cabinet it's displayed on---the one |
| custom imaged fine art tile on high end wood | | | | with the art nouveau stained glass parabolas artfully |
| furniture. That option has never existed anywhere, | | | | embedded in the cabinet doors--- is a different story |
| because the very few available furniture pieces that | | | | altogether. |