One of the biggest “needs” of owners of mid century homes is: Replacement tile for cracked or broken original tiles in otherwise perfectly beautiful and functional mid century bathrooms. Now that we have discovered World of Tile we have probably the single best place in the nation (so far) where we have a chance to find an authentic vintage match for our 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and even 1980s bathrooms. Heck yeah there is more →
World of Tile — video interview with co-owner Chippy
Posted by: • July 11, 2011
Yesterday I rolled out 120 photos and the news that we’ve discovered an amazing time capsule tile story — World of Tile in Springfield, New Jersey. Today, we hear from Chippy (as in “little chip off the old block”), who is a second generation co-owner of the World of Tile and hosted me on my recent visit. She is a delightful person chock full of great information about the history of World Tile and how the came to have this amazing treasure chest of New Old Stock vintage tile from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s ad 1990s.
World of Tile: The single most important discovery on Retro Renovation yet — 100+ photos
Posted by: • July 10, 2011
Announcing the single most exciting discovery on the blog yet: World of Tile — a tile store that opened in Springfield, New Jersey, in 1957 and which is still open today. A lovely story of same-family-ownership small business longevity. But, the big news is that this tile store is chock full of new old stock NOS mint in box MIB vintage tile from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. GORGEOUS tile, and at what I consider very fair prices. You read it first here… !!!GeT Y@Ur T!Le FaSt!!!! — because once the fancy shmancy hotsy totsy New York interior design crowd finds out about this place (that is: starting NOW), they are going to rush on over to New Jersey and, I fear, wipe the place out. Heck yeah there is more →
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