source of high quality
hand-made ceramic tiles.
Exquisite beauty. Timeless character. The unparalleled appeal of artisan design.
McIntyre Tile Company - beautifying America with quality handcrafted field, trim, and decorative tiles since 1972. For more than 30 years, McIntyre has successfully translated the studio pottery approach into an array of attractive, functional tile creations.
McIntyre Introduces Two New Product Lines
McIntyre Tile has rolled out its two latest product lines, Shino and Streamline.
McIntyre Tile Company
Based in northern California's wine country, McIntyre Tile combines the rich natural variations of artisan craftsmanship with a distinctive aesthetic uniquely our own. Our personal flair, attention to detail, and passionate approach results in a matchless quality and durability renowned by design professionals nationwide.
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While still attending the School of Business at San Francisco State University, Bob visited Heath Ceramics in Sausalito. He came to gather information for a paper he was writing and fell in love...with ceramic tile. Bob appreciated the integrity of their process as well as the challenge faced by any company that chooses to balance the competing demands of high esthetics with profitability.
Undaunted by these challenges, Bob - along with some of the people he met at Heath - founded McIntyre Tile in 1972, and began a journey of exploration and discovery that continues this very day. Though unheard of in the world of commercial tile, Bob and his team took "cone 10 - reduction" - a high-fire technique used to create ceramic pottery - and applied it to producing commercial tile. Initially, the process took them a year to perfect but their first product, a stoneware field tile, set the stage for the next 33 years of innovation.
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What is Artisan Tile?
The 1960's saw a renaissance in the creation of natural, authentic, hand-crafted pottery and ceramic design in art schools and studios around the United States. During that same period the American tile industry was focusing on perfecting the high-volume production of low cost, utilitarian materials to support the boom in residential and commercial construction.
In Sausalito. California, these widely divergent efforts met at Heath Ceramics where they sought to incorporate the materials and techniques of hand-crafted ceramics into the design and production of tiles for utilitarian application in floors, counters, showers and back-splashes. (It was at Heath Ceramics that Bob McIntyre, while still in College, first encountered artisan tile making and began his life-long love of the materials and the process.)
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