Catalina Designs (Santa Rosa, Terra Cotta Corner)

Porcelain Catalina Designs Tiles

• Wight porcelain: No other talavera tile has undergone the laboratory tests that ours have to assure its ability for installation in all climates, and for resistance to pool chemicals.
• Pool Tile
• Details slightly raised
• Colors: Are applied by hand
• The glaze is the thin layer  of glossy material on the body of the tile or (bisque), which provides aesthetic  and technical properties, such as color, design, impermeability and hardness.
• Each Tile varies in color
• Size Averages:  (3 3/4 x 3 3/4), (5 3/4 x 5 3/4),(2 x 2).

Although Villa and Mission Imports, LLc maintains high standards of quality control lot variation in size and color may be present from tile to tile, shipment to shipment. There is no guarantee that tiles ordered as add-ons will match those from original orders. This is an intrinsic characteristic in all ceramic tiles, and particularly in handcrafted tiles.

In Southern California is commonly known as Catalina Tile or also Malibu Tile, comes from the California revival movement of the early 20th Century, all weather porcelain body to allow for outdoor installations anywhere, and subtle earth tone colors, to compliment the natural colors of the western lanscape.

Catalina tile adorns the serpentine wall that snakes along Crescent Avenue, the Wrigley Memorial and Botanical Gardens, the old Bird Park aviary, benches, storefronts, fountains and numerous homes and buildings around the town.