Musings and photographs from an American expat living in Amsterdam. All photos by me, Suzanne Lee Miller, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Amsterdam entry tiles
What is happening??? Here are two examples of the kind of tiles I see frequently oustside Amsterdam building entrances. Now, the choice of tiles that I typically see is, to me, mind-bogglingly wrong, and I just can't figure it out. The Dutch tend to have excellent, European-refined taste and have turned out centuries of beautiful art and architecture. So what the heck happened with these entrances? These were put in a long time ago, and I have to wonder why. Did the taste of the time run that strange? Did people use remnant tiles for their street entrances? I really have to document more of these.
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I'd guess the one on the bottom is surely scrap tile.
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