Mosaic Tile House Venice, CA
Bungalow-turned-folk-art-shrine, its every wall, path, and bench encrusted in millions of hand-broken ceramic fragments.
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This guide to the Mosaic Tile House in Venice tells how Cheri Pann and Gonzalo Duran, a couple who met by chance at a paint store counter in Culver City, spent nearly thirty years covering an ordinary 1994 bungalow on Palms Boulevard in shattered ceramic. It follows Gonzalo's illustrator's eye for sculptural shapes and Cheri's determination to fix a house nobody loved, one broken cup at a time. Look closely at any wall and you'll see nothing repeats.
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