Azulejo
アズレージョ / 15th century– / Style / Ornament
Portugal's blue-and-white tile works as the skin of architecture, opening story, map and ornament onto the street until the city itself can be read as a printed plate.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Blue-and-white tile
- Narrative panels wall-high
- Repeating pattern
- One body with the building
Best used for
- Using a building's wall as a large plate the passerby can read
- Covering rooms floor to ceiling in repeats for coolness and continuity
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Fire the inscription in the same blue and frame it into the wall
- Composition
- Set the tile grid first, compose so breaks fall on the joints
- Material
- Cobalt blue on white glaze, judged with the gloss reflection included
- Caution
- Laying a large picture out without regard for the joints misaligns grid and drawing, and the wall looks like a printed sheet pasted on.
- Further study
- The Mudéjar lineage / the story panels of São Bento station / tiles and the post-earthquake city
Related entries
- Islamic Geometric Pattern (イスラム幾何学文様)Same Ornament lineage.Compare Azulejo and Islamic Geometric Pattern
- Stained Glass (ステンドグラス)Same Ornament lineage.Compare Azulejo and Stained Glass
Often confused with
More from Ornament
Continue through styles in the same Ornament family, prioritised by shared effects.
- Victorian Ornament (ヴィクトリアン装飾)Shared effects: Luxury / Nostalgia.
- Maximalism (マキシマリズム)Shared effects: Luxury.
- Kōwhaiwhai (コファイファイ)Shared effects: Calm.
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