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Part 3 of 5: The Ceramic, Glass and Mosaic Series There is something paradoxical about mosaic on a historic facade. It is, in principle, one of the most durable decorative finishes available. The tesserae — those small units of stone, glass, or ceramic that make up the mosaic surface — are individually among the hardest

En 2001, Jérôme se forme à la mosaïque — d’abord à Paray-le-Monial, puis auprès de maîtres mosaïstes à Ravenne, berceau de cet art antique. En 2005, il fonde Absolut Mosaïque en Bretagne, spécialisé dans la restauration et la conservation de mosaïques du patrimoine, en collaboration avec les architectes des monuments historiques. Membre des Grands Ateliers

Part 2 of 5: The Ceramic, Glass and Mosaic Series Walk down almost any street of late 19th or early 20th century housing in Belgium, the Netherlands, or the UK, and you will see it — if you know what to look for. Not the plain red or yellow brick that makes up the bulk

Part 1 of 5: The Ceramic, Glass and Mosaic Series Before paint. Before render. Before almost any of the surface treatments we associate with historic facades today, there was fired clay. Ceramic — in its broadest sense, any material shaped from clay and hardened by heat — is one of the oldest building materials in

Formé sur le Tour de France des Compagnons du Devoir, Romain a sillonné le pays, travaillé dans des lieux prestigieux et découvert les savoir-faire régionaux du bois pendant vingt ans. En 2019, il obtient le titre de Meilleur Ouvrier de France en menuiserie d’agencement bois — un défi technique et mental exigeant. Il fonde ensuite

Part 2 of 2: Diagnosis, treatment, and the logic of breathable materials In Part 1 of this series, we looked at how rising damp and salt damage work — the three salt families, the µ-value and what it means for breathability, and how decades of cement repairs and impermeable surfaces have compounded the problem in

Part 1 of 2: Understanding the problem Everyone knows that water damages buildings from above. The failed gutter, the cracked roof, the missing flashing — these are the visible culprits, the ones that get attention, the ones that get fixed. What gets far less attention is what happens from below. Rising damp is not dramatic.

Tercera generación de carpinteros de Écija. Empezó a ayudar en el taller de su padre con solo nueve años, y hoy destaca, como sus antecesores, en las características puertas con orejeras de la ciudad — de rico diseño geométrico. En 2019 recibió el Premio Richard H. Driehaus de las Artes de la Construcción, dedicándolo a

For property owners who want to do this properly — and for the craftspeople who keep telling them the same thing A window restorer told me recently that people are already calling to ask whether their frames can be done before winter. It was the end of August. He was polite about it. He always

The neglected boundary strip on historic terraced houses — Part 4 of 4 We have looked at what the boundary strip is, who legally owns it, and how to approach it in practice. All of that, ultimately, leads to the question that determines whether anything actually happens. Who pays for it? The honest answer In