This is the stove tile in the strict sense: not a flat tile, but a moulded panel, hollowed with a relief arcade, glazed in a deep teal that catches the light differently from every angle. These panels are made for the heater, not cut into it.
The composition alternates tiles and white render. The tiles ring the firebox, return as a band at shelf height, then as a cornice at the top — the rest is left smooth. That is the old rule: glaze what you touch and what you look at, render the rest.
The door is bronze, with a vertical handle and a solid frame. Behind the tiles, the mass does its usual work: what changes here is that the glaze adds surface inertia and a washable finish that neither powders nor soils.
Built in November 2013.
