New Orleans Sidewalk Tiles
Local artist danny chinn recreates these beautiful icons making each one by hand.
New orleans sidewalk tiles. Favorite add to four tile original art new orleans louisiana famous desserts creativemood. The burgundy bar new orleans picture. Sidewalk street name tiles at the corner of baronne street and second street. From shop creativemood.
The letters on the tiles some of which are over a century old are done in a font specific to new orleans. Royal street sidewalk tiles after rain new orleans la. 5 out of 5 stars 38 38 reviews 25 00. Way back in 2009 i created a corporate identity for the new orleans tile company basing the logo s letterforms off photographs of the beautiful blue and yellow 1920s ceramic tiles that can still be found spelling out street names around the city today as i only required a small subset of letters for the logo i never got around to completing the full alphabet.
New orleans sidewalk street tiles alphabet numbers symbols digital collection midnightboheme. The historic new orleans street tiles date back to the 1870 s and are a landmark of the crescent city. Ceramic tiles into the city s sidewalks but estimates peg it to sometime in the mid 1880s. New orleans blue and white street tiles are indigenous pieces of history unique to the city of new orleans.
Sidewalk tiles terracotta background pattern. In the more commercial districts of the city you will see the name of a business embedded in front. 15 2015 in 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.
Tiles of a sidewalk with the names of graduates of the george washington university in the district of foggy bottom. Tile sidewalk markers for a long departed grocery on daupine street in new orleans bywater neighborhood. Restrooms bathroom toilettes french tiles sign on building wall on sidewalk closeup in town city nobody architecture symbol. Today the series continues with the introduction of new orleans street tiles.
1615 saint philip street new orleans louisiana 70116 united states 504 201 6450. No two tiles are alike and the variations between them ensure a unique and creative collection.