Maitland & Poate, Mad About The House Intro Italian Tile CollectionMaitland & Poate, Mad About The House Intro Italian Tile Collection
Collection showcases five heritage designs refreshed and reinvented with a new color palette.
July 16, 2024

Maitland & Poate has announced the launch of a new range of handmade tiles, The Italian Collection. Working with celebrated journalist, author and founder of Mad About The House, Kate Watson-Smyth, the collection showcases five heritage designs refreshed and reinvented with a new color palette.
The collection is inspired by the recent renovation of Watson-Smyth’s new Italian home nestled in a hillside near Turin.
“The house needed completely redoing, and I wanted to bring the colors of the Italian countryside into the bathrooms,” says Watson-Smyth. “Maitland & Poate use traditional methods to create their tiles and that fitted perfectly with the aesthetic of the building. All the designs are reworking of traditional patterns, and one was based on a single tile I saw in a reclamation yard a few miles from the house and fell in love with.”
Each design is named after the rooms in Watson-Smyth’s home where the ancient property’s original features have influenced the color choices.
From calming lavenders to deep forest greens, muted yellows and deep blues, all combine with soft pastel creams for an eclectic design offering. The Italian Tile Collection comprises handmade cement tiles produced by third-generation tile artisans in Maitland & Poates Andalucian workshops, each tile is hand poured using natural pigments dried naturally in the ambient Spanish air. Once dry, the tiles will need to be sealed after laying and can be placed to create unique configurations for floors or statement walls.
The Italian Tile collection sits alongside a complementary palette of 12 paint colors created by Watson-Smyth in collaboration with Graphenstone.
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