NEW ORLEANS Street Tiles
INDIVIDUAL Letter or Number TILES: $40 each.
DELUXE MOUNTED TILES and SIMPLE MOUNTED TILES are available as custom orders.
Deluxe Mounted - Tiles are mounted on plywood or backerboard, surrounded with our hand made decorative design and field tile, grouted and framed with cypress. A picture wire hanger on the back, ready to hang as interior or exterior wall art. All inlusive @ $140 per street tile letter / number mounted. (breakdown: $40 street tile, $40 for surround tile, $20 mount and grout, $40 framing and hanger)
Simple Mounted- Tiles are mounted on backerboard and grouted. Picture wire hanger on the back. Ready to hang. $70 per street tile mounted. Minimum 2 tiles mounted. Maximum 5 tiles mounted can be shipped, more if local pickup.
New Orleans Blue and White street tiles are indigenous pieces of history unique to the city of New Orleans. Beginning in the 1880's the city of New Orleans has embedded letter tiles in city sidewalk intersections identifying the two street names. In the more commercial districts of the city you will see the name of a business embedded in front of what was, or still is a storefront, especially in evidence along Magazine Street where our studio and showroom are located. throughout the city, in all the different Wards, house numbers appear using these same fabulous tiles.
The early letter tiles are referred to as the Belgian style tiles, manufactured overseas, and imported to the city. Belgian tile differs from the so called American style tiles in two ways; The font, and lack of a pinstripe groove or shadow line. The American style tiles were originally manufactured by the American Encaustic Tile Company in Zanesville, Ohio, and sold in showrooms in New York City.
Derby Pottery and Tile has manufactured the American style tiles since 2003. Lacking the industrial machinery used to produce the originals, we have invented a process in house which allows us to create the reproduction tiles you see here.
Our goal then, and now is to offer the finest reproduction of this New Orleans classic. Tiles are sold individually, or as custom built wall art pieces as shown.
