Installation day! Or rather, week.
I now know more than any sensible person should about historic tile.
To create the tight lines of an accurate, traditional 1890 bathroom requires setting each tile with razor precision. Literally.
It is a plant, and a color, and a crayon… yet somehow people still can’t spell Lavender.
Uncle Frank and twilight in my Brooklyn house.
He was 25 years old and just out of a federal penitentiary when this photo was taken.