Collaborating with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, Michigan-based Motawi Tilework’s new collection imitates the architect’s lesser-known work. I think, as they say, it’s a pretty honest bit of flattery.

Drawing inspiration from old sketches, designs and techniques of the early 20th century builder (some of which never got executed), the tiles are made using a Spanish glazing process known as cuenca.

Each tile is molded with a raised design, and the artisans hand-fill each depression with a pool of glaze. That requires some very fragile and precise

work considering all the intersecting lines and valleys in Wright’s designs, above.

The art tiles can either work as accents on a wall of plain, monochromatic tiles or even as framed little masterpieces—the perfect Christmas gift for that architecture aficionado in your life.

As for my favorite, I’m torn amoung the tiles inspired from watercolor sketches of a tapestry rug design and those taken from the concrete textile block building method that Wright pioneered.

What do you think?

Orginal post by Natalie Rodriguez