Artisan mosaic installation
Paul installs mosaic as a craft. Waterjet marble murals and hand-placed patterns, set so every piece lands where the design meant it to.
Mosaic work
The design can be perfect on paper. On the wall, it comes down to where the first piece goes and how every cut after it is made.
Bird and blossom mosaic · Bar niche
Blue branches and blossoms climb a pale stone ground, up into the arch and out across the backsplash on both sides. The two birds and every flower had to land clear of the glass shelves and the faucet.
Mosaic by New Ravenna, installed by Paul. Photo: New Ravenna.
Marble mosaic wisteria · Kitchen backsplash
Small pieces of marble cover the whole wall, with dark branches and white blossoms hanging from the cabinets down to the counter. The pattern carries on unbroken behind the range hood and between the open shelves.
Marble mosaic mural · Cabinet wall
Small pieces of marble assembled into one image, set so every petal reads cleanly against the dark ground. A piece out of place shows from across the room.
Waterjet marble florals · Kitchen
Each flower is cut by water jet and fitted to its neighbors. The joints have to stay even across the whole wall, around the outlets, the shelf and the cabinet edge.
Most tile jobs are a grid. A mosaic is a picture, and a picture shows every mistake.
The whole design is worked out on the wall before a single piece is set, so the pattern sits centered and the cuts fall at the edges.
Around an outlet, a window or a cabinet end, a rough cut can't hide. It becomes part of the picture.
The color and width of the joint decide whether the pieces read as one image or as rows of small squares.
Small pieces follow every bump in the surface behind them. Mosaic needs a flatter wall than ordinary tile does.
Mosaic backsplashes and showers, and the floors he sets around them.
See all the work
Mosaic is the specialty. He also sets the floors and stone that go around it.
See the servicesWaterjet marble florals and mosaic pictures, from one panel to a whole wall.
Patterned mosaic behind the range or around the sink, from a simple lattice to marble flowers.
Accent panels set into shower walls, and patterned mosaic floors.
Marble checkerboard, porcelain plank and covered porches, inside and out.
“Premium materials. Precision craftsmanship. No shortcuts.”
Mosaic shows the wall behind it more than any other tile. So the part nobody sees afterwards matters most: a flat, solid base and the right setting materials for the room.
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