Mosaics offer a medium to experiment with a wide variety of materials and to create imaginative color schemes. The authors, Kaffe Fassett and Candace Bahouth, are accomplished designers known especially for dramatic color combinations, and for their first collaboratioin they have chosen the rich subject of mosaics -- presenting a collection of creative projects for interiors and exteriors.

This book offers plenty of inspiration for those already interested in this increasingly popular craft, as well as solid information for the beginner. The mosaic projects in this book can bring life to your home and garden. You'll find both simple and ambitious ideas here, and the many contemporary materials used here include broken crockery, tiles and mirrors, shells, pebbles, beads, gold-leafed and covered glass, unglazed ceramic and objets trouvs.

You'll get full design guidelines for each project, and a special chapter that gives directions for making the mosaics and working with the various types of material that appear in the designs. You get all the information you need to transform your interiors and exteriors with these colorful, irresistible mosaics.

1. Inspirations

2. Making Mosaics
Selecting and collecting tesserae
Buying basic tools and materials
Choosing mosaic bases
Preparing tesserae
Cementing or gluing tesserae
Grouting mosaics
Making mosaics without grout

3. Indoor Mosaics
Transferware Table
Shell Urn
White Bathroom
Pebble Mirror
Rose Table
Tapestry Chair
Blues Bathroom
Blue and While Vase
Pearl Lamp
Pastel Frame
Apple Shelf
Mosaic Portrait

4. Outdoor Mosaics
Garden Wall
White Swan Urn
Tessellated Fountain
Mosaic Terrace
Blue Shrine
Planter and Pillar
Egyptian Table
Blues Flower Box
Shell-edged Garden Table
Theatre Mural
Country Terrace
Hollyhock Door Surround

Mosaics Glossary

Acknowledgments

Index