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Did you know that we can produce tiles and wallpapers to your own specs or design something just for you?

Recently we created these stunning tile portraits for the Macchiavelli restaurant in Covent Garden.

We painted three completely original portraits plus we digitally recreated six others from Renaissance originals. The paintings were then produced onto high fired ceramics and installed as table tops and wall coverings throughout the restaurant.

All Dominic Crinson designs are produced under our manufacturing arm Digitile and we can produce any image to any scale over quality tiles and wallpapers.

I’m now working on some ideas that connect my design and artistic practices.

In my Melbourne studio I split the day creating art in the form of painting and designing in the form of the tile and wallpaper work. In previous collections I would at times use a painted image to form the basis of a tile or wallpaper design but apart from that there has been little connection between the two. Now however these two practices have crossed paths and I find myself painting on the surface of my wallpaper, using it like I would a canvas and intervening in the pattern.

Painting on the surface of the Gato1 wallpaper design from the Faux Rococo Collection

I intend to develop these into individual artworks so that they can be pasted on to a wall as they are or framed. Alternatively they could be installed as unique drops within the pattern repeat, as if the painting has been done directly on your walls. Ideally customers would be able to choose from a limited edition of painted wallpaper drops to add to their order of the standard pattern. Interior Designers/Architects would then have the creative freedom to place the artwork in the space.

Taking the painted surface back to the digital from where it originated, I have edited some close-up images of the Gato1 intervention in Photoshop to create new patterns. These can now be used as floor tiles, wall tiles or wallpaper patterns in their own right. Below shows an image combining all these Gato painted patterns.

Painting with Succo4 from the Faux Rococo Collection

I’ll be posting more in the next couple of weeks meanwhile I would love to hear from you!

Barley Massey’s textile showroom Fabrications has had an exciting eco revamp and features hundreds of our wall and floor tiles installed throughout.

Every tile used had been either a factory reject or had been recycled from old projects and we utilised almost all our rejected tiles that had been gathering over the years to form a kaleidoscopic patchwork effect. London customers wanting to see our tiles in action, get down to Broadway Market, Hackney.

Your comments are always appreciated!

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Fabrications will be part the London Design Festival and Open House London both happening this September.

We have just visited Stockholm to see one of our most exciting projects yet. Our tiles and wallpapers were installed in the grandest restrooms imaginable.

Located within Mood Stockholm a boutique like shopping mall in central Stockholm, the work was installed in three themed restrooms using a mix of the latest work plus older editions.

The aim was to create a place that was unlike any other in Stockholm and surely much of the world.

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Your comments are always appreciated!

We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new Crinson.com website with a host of new features to help you design the most beautiful spaces with our unique tiles and wallpapers.

Every tile, wallpaper and floor design can be seen in an installation view

You are now able to:

• browse individual designs with all product information needed to design your space
• view each design in context by clicking the ”View by: Installation” tab
• enter the dimensions of your project to calculate the number of tiles or square metres of wallpaper required
• see a visual representation of how the design repeats within the dimensions given
• buy online
• download spec sheets with important information for contractors and installers
• order samples & brochures online

Trade: there is a password protected area for Architects, Contractors and Designers that enables you to access

Find us this year at 100% Design 2010. Stop by to feel our tiles and caress our wallpapers but watch out, they may bite!

This year’s new collection features creepy crawlies hidden within intricate patterns and swirling lines.

After a five year absence from 100% Design, Dominic Crinson exhibits his new collection, “Original Species”. A series of designs fused together to create an explosion of pattern, colour and miniature entities. A truly primordial experience!

The Collection title “Original Species” is a play on Darwin’s epochal text  The Origin of the Species and features prey and predator poised and entangled in a web of pattern.

Check out the Original Species Collection in Tiles, Floor Tiles and Wallpaper