West Dean College Gardens Visitor’s Center – Hand-made Tilework: Photographs

Hand-made, painted and glazed tile of white porcelain with a flower design in green and yellow on reddish background, embedded in the entrance wall to the dining hall, over the archway.

Ornament arises as part of the design process, when a person is making and seeks to embellish this "something" while making it. It arises as a result of the latent centers in the uncompleted thing requiring still more centers, requiring ...

The West Dean Center is a simple one-story masonry building with a large red-tiled roof and intricate brickwork for its thick walls. The building is surrounded by gardens, and its south facing wall has large arched windows overlooking the garden ...

Three handmade tile mockups of different materials and proportions, all testing the flower design of a single tile to be embedded in the entrance to the dining hall wall. The first mockup is made of a thick plastiline paste with ...