A small advertisement for luxurious art tile appeared in the August 1926 issue of Pacific Coast Monthly. It featured a lavishly decorated tile fountain adorning an outside patio of an architecturally ...

In her 1986 essay The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, Ursula K. Le Guin reimagines human history not as a tale of conquest, but as one of containment.

Market Street building in San Francisco, using terra cotta trim. Earlier this month I posted about Elements International. The Portland company decided to open their “To The Trade” showroom floor to ...

Every spring for almost a quarter of a century, the Gladding McBean clay factory in Lincoln housed a juried ceramic exhibit called Feats of Clay. Ceramic artists from across the country vied to get ...

Come with Rob to visit the historic Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln! Old world craftsmanship takes new form inside the walls of the historic Gladding, McBean factory in Lincoln. Join host Rob ...

Meet terra cotta artisans Jesus Cardenas and Humberto Miranda in this web-exclusive clip. For 135 years, skilled artisans at Gladding, McBean & Company in Lincoln, California, have been crafting ...

Gallery 1855 hosts “Reflect and Repeat: Images from the Gladding, McBean Factory,” an exhibit by photographer Gene Kennedy, during October. A reception is planned from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15. It ...

Dedicated in 1940, the moderne memorial to the man who brought water to Los Angeles sits about a mile from the site of legendary tile manfacturer Gladding, McBean. Its coveted Franciscan tile once ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Darren Peck gives us the history behind ...