tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25826001931054762792024-03-16T11:52:35.208-07:00Pratt and Larson TileInspiration and design ideas from Portland's premier tile manufacturer and showroom. Pratt and Larson - Tile Handmade in America.Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-73369948682870723392015-12-21T13:00:00.000-08:002015-12-22T13:38:00.371-08:00Portland Business Journal Company of the Year Awards<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">This year Pratt & Larson was honored to be a finalist in the </span>Family Owned Manufacturing Company of the Year category in this years Portland Business Journal awards.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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The Business Journal solicited nominations for the Oregon Manufacturing Awards from the manufacturing community and their readers at large. Nominations were divided into 5 categories based on number of employees as well as a family owned company of the year category. The business journal’s editorial staff judged nominees based on financial performance, growth, innovation and job creation and retention. We are so proud to be recognized in this way as an important member of the Portland community. </div>
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Read more about it in the Portland Business Journal <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/2015/10/meet-the-2015-oregon-manufacturing-awards-winners.html#g3" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2015/10/scenes-from-the-2015-oregon-manufacturing-awards.html#g12" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-76359259419766841932015-12-17T12:44:00.001-08:002016-02-09T11:13:47.020-08:00New Scraffito Patterns<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Back in 2013 <a href="http://prattandlarson.blogspot.com/2013/05/introducing-scraffito.html" target="_blank">we introduced our Scraffito</a> series. <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">Inspired by an ancient technique where the surface layer is scratched away to reveal a contrasting color, t</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">hese designs have a wonderful hand drawn quality to them which is rarely seen in ceramics. O</span>ver the last two years the Scraffito series</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> met with great success and continued popularity </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">so we are pleased to announce that we have added four new designs to the series. </span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scraffito E 5x10 SC-510E</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These new designs are available in a 5x10. Some of these patterns are directional so be sure to pay extra attention when you are installing them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;">They can be ordered in a single color (Monochrome) using any one of our hundreds of glaze colors.The Watercolor glazes really show off the new patterns. The glaze pools in the recesses of the pattern and it becomes darker where it gathers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Craftsman Glazes are a little more subtle, filling in the pattern here and there, creating different looks depending on the glaze. It's a good idea to order samples to see how the color you're considering reads on the pattern. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Craftsman Metallic glaze C609 bounces the light off of it's metallic surface, allowing the pattern to read in the subtle shine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many R-glaze colors will pool in the patterns too, creating areas of light and dark to help the patterns read. E</span>ach color has its own look so it's important to order a sample.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252c2c; font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">The overglaze is sprayed on top of the accent color, adding a layer of transparent color. You can use any of the Watercolor glazes as an overglaze, just keep in mind the darker glazes will obscure the accent colors and the more contrast between your accent color and your overglaze color the bolder the pattern will be. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #252c2c; font-family: trebuchet ms, trebuchet, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.85px; line-height: 20.79px;">The three pieces below show Scraffito pattern F using different combinations of Polywash accent colors and overglazes.</span></span></span></span><br />
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There are lots of looks you can create with these new designs. Check out our <a href="http://prattandlarson.com/product-category/relief-tile/bas-relief/scraffito/" target="_blank">website for more ideas and information about these great new designs</a> or if you're in Portland come by our showroom to see for yourself!<br />
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Strong color choices are great for accent walls and smaller spaces like powder rooms.</div>
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Or if you're more adventurous, you can use big bold colors anywhere! Here's a <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/921831/decorating-bright-colors/@center/276988/painting-ideas-and-projects" target="_blank">great gallery from Martha Stewart </a>with lovely ideas on how to use bright colors in your decorating.</div>
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There is nothing like a blast of color to make a space feel more upbeat and fun. If you're looking for inspiration on how to use color in your designs try <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/prattandlarson/bright-ideas/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> or <a href="http://www.houzz.com/pro/pratt-and-larson/pratt-and-larson-ceramics" target="_blank">Houzz</a> for some great images.</div>
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-78147556474090360452015-07-17T10:00:00.000-07:002015-07-17T10:00:01.996-07:00A New Gas Kiln<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We got a new gas kiln! It's a Formi kiln from Italy. </div>
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It's much bigger than our other glaze kilns, So big in fact, it arrived with it's own forklift to get it off the truck and into our building!</div>
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There was a bad moment when we thought it wouldn't fit on the elevator...</div>
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but it just made it! (phew)</div>
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We cleared out a space for it and got it all set up. </div>
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It can hold 3 to 4 times as much tile as our regular glaze kilns which are electric but first we'll have to run lots of experiments to see how our glaze colors react to the gas firing. </div>
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Our R&D department is ready to put it to the test! </div>
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The Bevel tile is a timeless classic. Made famous in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_the_Paris_M%C3%A9tro" target="_blank">Paris Metro stations in the early 1900</a>'s it still remains a popular choice for today's kitchens and bathrooms. Pratt & Larson offers three sizes of Bevel tile: 3x6, 4x8 & 5x10 plus squares in 3x3, 4x4 & 5x5. <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/dimensionalbevelsframes.php" target="_blank">Download our brochure here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Metro Bevel tile in a Paris subway station - <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metro_de_Paris_-_Ligne_2_-_Victor_Hugo_03.jpg" target="_blank">from wikipedia</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By 1910 those old Paris subway stations were getting pretty ornate.</td></tr>
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A white glaze is a popular choice and it can work with installations of any style, from traditional to contemporary. We have a wide range of whites to choose from in glossy, crackle, satin or matte.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">P&L 3x6 Bevel tile in a glossy white.</td></tr>
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In a flashy metallic glaze like C607 shown here it creates a dramatic, luxurious effect.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Craftsman Metallic glazes C600 & C607</td></tr>
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The beauty of ordering a Bevel from Pratt & Larson is that you have <a href="http://digitallibrary.interiordesign.net/doc/Library/Pratt-_-Larson-Ceramics/2009063001/#4" target="_blank">hundreds of colors</a> to choose from and each of our glazes creates a different effect.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi38UXN5hZRgMnHhcJ1pCbrAF6FVlL0KF7YtHVV7tr8bQYwU36x7aPRz7fP3U-rU3IkgzN6o5Wrpp288TI_GyJXOeHl-fWVOSQBaewErlFhri1D-yneNZJXx_2zzGYLxEPbbY4XI1AGDUY6/s1600/small+palette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi38UXN5hZRgMnHhcJ1pCbrAF6FVlL0KF7YtHVV7tr8bQYwU36x7aPRz7fP3U-rU3IkgzN6o5Wrpp288TI_GyJXOeHl-fWVOSQBaewErlFhri1D-yneNZJXx_2zzGYLxEPbbY4XI1AGDUY6/s640/small+palette.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Watercolor glazes pool at the lower edge of the bevel emphasizing the dimensions of the bevel.<br />
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In the image below you can see how the Watercolor glazes pool at the bottom edge of the bevel, accentuating its shape. In the darker colors this effect is more pronounced.<br />
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R-gloss glaze series has the most color options, from white to bright with a beautiful glossy sheen. These glazes are a little more opaque and soften the lines of the bevel slightly.<br />
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With their soft sheen the Satin glazes are a beautiful choice for the Bevel tile.<br />
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There are so many beautiful variations you can achieve with Pratt & Larson tile. See your options at a <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/dealer.php" target="_blank">showroom near you</a> and order some Bevel tile samples for your next project.Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-86444020838123215072015-06-03T14:56:00.000-07:002015-06-03T14:56:54.539-07:00New Shapes from Pratt & Larson<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dr0Qv2tL9jaaoGxSf2wVfTRTAWbOHPaNGfdkFVtRHB-Wd_QJAXLrDkjrUcjDdr2JmGxi3kyO9Q7zHQhmgLeoMaM0-NZQ_HtHTKpzXNuBOqTzRlXWDKcey-pYIB3dBzxxnvKY0GJ3cYI8/s1600/Fan+Shower+Vignette-LR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="496" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5dr0Qv2tL9jaaoGxSf2wVfTRTAWbOHPaNGfdkFVtRHB-Wd_QJAXLrDkjrUcjDdr2JmGxi3kyO9Q7zHQhmgLeoMaM0-NZQ_HtHTKpzXNuBOqTzRlXWDKcey-pYIB3dBzxxnvKY0GJ3cYI8/s640/Fan+Shower+Vignette-LR.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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The first thing to come to mind when you are thinking about tile is usually the classic but utilitarian square and rectangle or subway tile. While we have lots of variations on those timeless squares and rectangles, Pratt & Larson has a wide array of interesting and contemporary tile <i>shapes</i> as well. We've just recently added several new ones. <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/fieldshapes2015.php" target="_blank">Download the brochure</a> from our website.</div>
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This is our new Elongated Fan. It's beautiful in a single color or in color blends, both light and dark, as you can see in these two concept boards. </div>
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Similar in style is the new Elongated Crescent. It's a bit more streamlined and smaller than the Elongated Fan and almost has a retro look in the bright color version to the right. These pieces come loose so you can set them in any direction. The images above show you a couple of options, the first is all oriented in the same direction, the second changes direction from one row to the next, changing the look of the pattern dramatically.</div>
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The Rhomboid and the gem shaped Facet offer some sharp angles in contrast to the soft curves of the Elongated Crescent and Fan. In either high contrasting colors or a softer color blend they have a very contemporary and modern feel.</div>
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The Hourglass shape is a fresh take on a classic pattern sometimes known as the dog bone. Pratt & Larson's version uses a single shape that suggests a woven pattern when used in two colors. Choose a high contrast color combination for a dramatic basket weave or checkered effect.</div>
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The last time we added new shapes was back in 2012, check out the <a href="http://prattandlarson.blogspot.com/2012/11/new-shapes-at-p.html" target="_blank">blog post for those fun shapes here.</a></div>
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In 2013 we spent the Winter Holiday doing some major <a href="http://prattandlarson.blogspot.com/2014/01/winter-housekeeping.html" target="_blank">housekeeping</a>. It worked out so well we did it again this past holiday vacation! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">This time we tackled the car kiln room. It was pretty dark and dirty back there...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">With lots of old peeling paint.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">So we gathered a crew and built some scaffolding above our custom made car kilns.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We cleared out all the stuff that collects in dark, neglected corners</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We scraped all the old peeling paint off the great wooden ceiling and beams and set to work painting everything else white.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just the new paint brightened things up but we also replaced all the lighting</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A new year and a new bright clean kiln room.</span></td></tr>
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Take a tour of our factory and see our awesome kiln room for yourself! Just give the Portland showroom a call at 503-231-9464 to set up an appointment.</div>
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<br />Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-18563475878130789622014-12-17T10:00:00.000-08:002015-01-05T13:55:14.376-08:00Tilikum Crossing - Bridge of the People<div style="text-align: center;">
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This summer Pratt & Larson had the honor of working on a project with TriMet, Portland's transit authority. </span></div>
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The latest bridge to cross the Willamette River in Portland since the Fremont Bridge in 1973, the Tilikum Crossing was designed specifically for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, light rail and the street car. In fact even it's name means "people" in the Chinook Wawa language used by the traders in the Pacific Northwest in the 19th century. Check out this <a href="http://trimet.org/pm/construction/bridgecam-omsi-complete.htm">cool time lapse video</a> of the building of the bridge.<br />
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TriMet allocates 1.5 percent of a projects budget toward art installations along the transit line. One of the art installations for this project is the Sonic Dish, designed by artists <a href="http://www.douglashollis.com/">Douglas Hollis</a> and the late <a href="http://annavalentinamurch.com/">Anna Valentina Murch</a>. Here's a great <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZmzGMJYuI8" target="_blank">1 minute clip</a> about them.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The idea behind the Sonic Dish is to link the bridge to it's surroundings by amplifying ambient sounds under the bridge as pedestrians and cyclists pass the bridge's curved abutments. The environment plays an active role in the artwork, in the same way that the changing lights illuminating <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/12/a_new_portland_bridge_and_its.html#incart_related_stories">the bridge at night</a> are controlled by changes in the river. The image above explains how the dish will magnify the sounds and focus them at a point 5 to 10 feet from the wall. Of course, its also meant to be a visual experience as explained by Mary Priester, manager of TriMet's public arts programs."The dish is there to be experienced as it is; more art than science, as much visual as aural" </span><br />
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Here's the Sonic Dish's underlying concrete structure. Pratt & Larson supplied the tile that would be attached to this surface. We made 1400 square feet of white 2" circle tiles and mesh mounted them in our factory just a few blocks away from the bridge. That's 63,000 tiles!! We also mounted 436sf of smaller metal circles in sheets to make installation easier. As you can see our team had a great time visiting the site:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The east side Sonic Dish, completed.</span></td></tr>
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The bridge doesn't open until September 2015 but the Springwater trail is open again and passes right under the bridge by the Sonic Dish. Check it out and let us know what you hear!<br />
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1/5/15 - Update - They took the fencing down so now you can go and try it out for yourself!</div>
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<i>A few years back i wrote a blog about all the deep dark blues that were turning up on my favorite design sites. Two years later and the deep dark blues are still going strong and i thought this topic was worth another visit. </i></div>
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Indigo, Midnight, Navy. These beautiful dark blues have been appearing in all my favorite design sites and magazines lately. I've put together some pictures of these midnight beauties along with the Pratt & Larson tile they inspired me to order up in our own collection of deep blue glazes.<br />
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The soft texture of this rich navy blue painted wallpaper lead me to try our <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/filigree-tile.php" target="_blank">Filigree</a> patterns in a deep blue Watercolor glaze. It gathers and pools in the recesses becoming deep and dark and pulls away from the delicate pattern, leaving it with a hint of the palest of blues.<br />
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The strong contrasting pattern of this Galbraith & Paul wallpaper has a similar feeling to our <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/scraffito-tile.php" target="_blank">Scraffito</a> Series. Here we've highlighted the pattern of the tile by applying an accent color with a technique called PolyWash. </div>
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For a quieter look like the subtle stripes of these carpet tiles from Flor try a tone on tone pattern. Here I used a glossy glaze and a matte glaze in very similar colors to create a subtle herringbone chevron pattern suitable for use on the floor. </div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Maybe you'd like the whole room in that beautiful deep sea blue? Use our field tile to fill your walls with dramatic color. We can make sizes as large as 6x18! Add one of our <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/textured-field.php" target="_blank">new Textures</a> to your field tile for a one of a kind look. </span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Follow the links in this post for downloadable brochures on each of these lines from P&L.</span></div>
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We've added on to the Pratt & Larson Bas Relief collection with some new dimensional tiles. More sizes in our popular Bevels, a Pyramid and a whole new series of dimensional Frame tiles that are a great clean, contemporary version of the classic bevel.</div>
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Our 3x6 Bevel has been popular for decades so we thought it was about time we added some more sizes to go along with it. The new bevel sizes include a 5x10 and a 4x8 in addition to our 3x6 bevel and there are beveled squares too, in 5x5, 4x4 and 3x3.</div>
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The Bevels look great in any of our glazes, from Watercolors, to R-Gloss, Craftsman and Metallic. The Watercolors pool beautifully on the edges of the bevel accentuating the dimension of the bevel and the Metallic glazes really catch the light on all those angles. </div>
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There are two styles of our new Frames - Recessed and Raised. Keep in mind we are describing the Frame - the outer ring of the design, when we say raised or recessed so you don't mix them up! Refer to this diagram and call them Frame A or Frame B, and make sure of your codes when ordering. </div>
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You can order the Recessed Frame in 4x4, 4x8, 6x6 and 6x12, while the Raised Frame comes only in the 4x4 & 4x8 sizes. </div>
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The Frame series comes in any of our glaze colors and they break on the edges and pool in the recesses in wonderful ways. Order some samples for your showroom or stop by our Portland showroom to see how beautiful they are in person. Download the brochure from our website <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/dimensionalbevelsframes.php" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-85829487594406357662014-09-10T10:04:00.000-07:002014-09-10T10:04:59.206-07:00Pratt & Larson Mosaics<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">If you came to our booth at Coverings in Las Vegas this year then you know we've been hard at work on our mosaic patterns. We cleaned up the shapes, tightened up the grout lines and sorted through the patterns; imagining them in all sorts of fresh color combinations. There's a new brochure with images of these patterns for inspiration and it also has black and white line drawings to use in designing your own color combinations. <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/downloads/PLC_Mosaics.pdf" target="_blank">Download the brochure here</a>. </span></div>
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-62575653548442607942014-05-21T13:30:00.000-07:002014-05-21T17:14:50.445-07:00Coverings 2014It was so wonderful to see everyone at Coverings this year! It seemed like everyone was in good spirits and having lots of fun. We got lots of terrific feedback on our new products too. Here's a little recap in case you didn't make it to the show this year. Not everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas after all!<br />
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Building the booth was quite an undertaking! It took a week of hard work at the convention center to put it up and getting to that point was months in the making back in Portland.<br />
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Our focus this year was on new Sales Tools for our vendors. We offered the newest version of our Sales Tools Credenza and a great new way to show our tremendous color palette and our shapes and sizes in new framed display panels.<br />
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The Shapes and Sizes Panels show our best selling field tile sizes and shapes and all of our mosaic sizes are grouped together so you know which ones come mesh mounted.</div>
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The Mosaic Package is a fun new way to display our huge assortment of mosaic patterns. The package comes with 20 Mosaic Pattern 12x12 display boards for the wall and a floor box that can either hold 32 more display boards or 56 white pattern tool boards. With the rising popularity of mosaics this is a terrific new package for any showroom.<br />
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We had lots of new product to show as well! This wall featured large displays of our new pieces. Larger format tile has been very popular lately and we have some new sizes available like 6x18! We also presented the new Textured tiles at the show along with our new dimensional tiles - like the new 5x10 Bevel and the Recessed Frame series. Check out the new <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/catalogaddendum.php" target="_blank">Catalog Addendum</a> available on our website. </div>
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We found a little time to take in the sights and we had fun at the Art Tile Party and before we knew it, it was time to pack it up and go home. We hope you had a great time at the show too! Let us know if there is any info you'd like about our new products or how to order the new sales tools for your showroom. </div>
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There's been lots of great new changes in the showroom. We're welcoming a new vendor - <a href="http://sabinehill.com/" target="_blank">Sabine Hill</a> whose cement tiles added some beautiful bright colors and patterns to our collections. There's a whole new Stone room full of displays from new and existing vendors as well as a new Porcelain room with lots of new displays and installations in an array of styles. </div>
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<b>Stop by the showroom for our Open House on Thursday March 6th and see all the wonderful new changes. We'd love to see you! </b></div>
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-16577798815513150812014-01-07T11:00:00.000-08:002014-01-07T11:00:01.331-08:00Winter Housekeeping<span style="font-size: large;">Our factory and showroom were closed over the holiday but we were still busy! There was a great team here cleaning house during the vacation. Working with clay is a dusty, dirty job so it's important to keep the production area clean.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The glazing and loading areas got a total make over. The kilns were all covered in tarps and all the peeling paint was scraped off the cool wooden beam ceiling. We added some new lights too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The pug mill churns up over a million pounds of clay for us every year. It deserved a little attention! Briefly shiny and clean, it got new blades and is back to work already, full of clay and making tile.</span><br />
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It's that time of year already, Ornament time! </div>
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A lot of care goes into making our holiday ornaments every year - just like our tile. </div>
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From an original carving by Michael Pratt we made a mold for the press that lines up to stamp the front and the back, 4 at a time.</div>
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We made over 2000 ornaments and each one was hand-sanded and had a hole drilled at the top.</div>
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Then the ornaments were then set up on wire shelves to be glazed.</div>
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<br />Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-70107520102441592072013-09-24T10:39:00.001-07:002013-09-24T10:41:24.212-07:00Autumn is here!Right on cue it's suddenly Autumn here in Portland. Windy and rainy and then a blast of sunshine just when you'd given up on it! Here's a few projects moving through the factory that seem to mirror the weather -<br />
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These were custom made for a client, they're getting ready to be fired and then glazed.<br />
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Some Autumn harvest vegetables in our Duochrome tone on tone hand painting -<br />
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And that blast of sunshine! Some Intaglio bubbles in a bright custom green -<br />
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-90336090768395487202013-09-12T11:45:00.000-07:002013-09-12T11:45:00.091-07:00Introducing Filigree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Filigree Series uses an intricate, delicate design to create an overall repeating pattern. As its name suggests it calls to mind delicate lacy metal work with it's precise clean lines.<br />
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Glazes pool in the lower areas of the design and break on the high points, allowing the patterns to show beautifully in any of our glazes.<br />
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Filigree A in C52 & C611</div>
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Filigree B in W1 & W92</div>
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Filigree C in C600 & W36</div>
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The Filigree patterns repeat to create an intricate surface embellishment for a luxurious look. Visit a dealer near you to see these beautiful tiles in person or stop by our Portland showroom. We look forward to seeing you!</div>
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We are very excited to be featured in not one, but two homes this year on the <a href="http://www.streetofdreamspdx.com/" target="_blank">Street of Dreams</a> in Stonehenge, West Linn. Once again our tile is showcased in the beautiful homes by Phil Pahlisch of <a href="http://www.pahlischhomes.com/" target="_blank">Pahlisch Homes</a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">First up is </span><a href="http://www.streetofdreamspdx.com/2013-Pahlisch-Homes-Clearhaven" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Clearhaven</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, described as a little bit of Nantucket here on the west coast, this house features cool hues and luxurious surfaces. Interiors were designed by Pahlisch Homes own Christina Ingham with tile </span>specified<span style="font-family: inherit;"> by <a href="http://www.paulsonsfloorcoverings.com/" target="_blank">Paulson's Flooring</a> designer<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jamie Sixberry.</span><br />
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Pratt and Larson's Motif tile pattern makes a central appearance in the spectacular kitchen, both behind the stove and in the adjacent work area.<br />
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In the master bath our mosaic circles, in a beautiful neutral blend of colors with a metallic dot, are used to great effect around the sink, tub and floor.</div>
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The second Pahlisch Home is called <a href="http://www.streetofdreamspdx.com/2013-Pahlisch-Homes-Blackmore" target="_blank">Blackmore</a>. At Blackmore old world grandeur meets modern luxury and Pratt & Larson tile adds a beautiful handcrafted touch to several rooms. The interiors of this home were designed by Carin Atterbury from <a href="http://www.surface-home.com/" target="_blank">Surface</a>.<br />
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A panel of Filigree tile, Pratt & Larson's newest line, is set off by two beautiful stones and stone architectural trim in this fantastic shower. <br />
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A Motif tile accent above the sink in this guest bath echos the arabesque pattern used in the shower with a dramatic stone architectural trim.</div>
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A third bathroom uses the arabesque shape as well, this time in Pratt and Larson's Large Arabesque field in a playful mix of colors. </div>
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As always, the homes in this years Street of Dreams promise to be gorgeous and full of wonderful design inspiration. The show starts this weekend, July 27th and runs until August 25th, be sure to make it out there for a tour. Special thanks to Jamie Sixberry from Paulson's Flooring and Carin Atterbury from Surface for choosing Pratt & Larson to be included in their beautiful designs.Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-29784593190797114332013-07-11T12:06:00.001-07:002013-07-11T12:06:41.648-07:00Contemporary Craftsman<br />
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We've been updating our Craftsman glaze display boards. Focused more on showing off the beautiful fields of color offered in our Craftsman glaze line the boards have a more contemporary, streamlined look. While they're perfect for a Craftsman bungalow update or a modern cabin retreat these beautiful glazes add a rich varied field of color to projects of any style.<br />
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Hope you're enjoying this beautiful summer! Stop by and see what else is new in the showroom and stay posted for our next release - Filigree. </div>
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Inspired by an ancient technique where the surface layer is scratched to reveal a contrasting color, the Scraffito collection was created by Michael Pratt in celebration of our 30th anniversary. Using an etching process to explore the Scraffito technique, Michael created patterns with wide ranging influences from medieval Europe to Arabic geometry. The designs all have a wonderful hand drawn quality to them which is rarely seen in ceramics, and they are continuous to create large fields of beautiful pattern. A <a href="http://www.prattandlarson-or.com/#/scraffito/4559388431" target="_blank">brochure</a> is available on our website to download.<br />
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There are 4 patterns available in the new line; each comes in an 8x8 and a 5x10 format:<br />
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The Scraffito series can be ordered in any of our glazes. They all work beautifully - the opaque glazes create a more subtle pattern and the translucent Watercolor glazes pool in the recesses which brings out the design.<br />
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You can also use our new hand painting technique - Polywash to add an accent color and really bring out the patterns:<br />
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There are 8 accent colors carefully formulated for Polywash. Each accent color has a name. The palette below shows the accent colors under W1 Watercolor glaze.<br />
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The accent color is applied and then rubbed away leaving the accent color only in the recesses. The over glaze color is sprayed over the top, adding a layer of transparent color. You can use the 8 accent colors under any of the Watercolor glazes, just keep in mind the darker glazes will obscure the accent colors and the more contrast between your accent color and your over glaze color the bolder the pattern will appear. Here<span style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;">are some new concept boards showing different ways of using this versatile new line. We can't wait to see how you use it in your next projects!</span><br />
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Update: <a href="http://www.conceptstudioinc.com/" target="_blank">Concept Studio</a> sent us these pictures of the beautiful Scraffito installation in their Costa Mesa showroom. We just had to share them!<br />
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We've been doing some rearranging in the showroom and there's lots of new products, displays and work areas. Scraffito is a brand new line which will be officially released soon but you can have a sneak preview in our Portland showroom. We installed a beautiful new floor pad and there are 12 new concept boards to showcase it. I'll blog all about it when it's officially released.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laying out the tile to make sure the variation in color is spread out evenly.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new Scraffito floor in S14</td></tr>
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There is a new Pratt & Larson color wall with our glazes shown on 2x4's and organized by glaze family. It's next to the new work table and hangs over the credenza with all the parts and pieces so everything is close at hand while you're designing.<br />
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There are still more changes in the works including new display for some of our vendors too!<br />
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-71942972135051099092013-03-04T16:20:00.000-08:002013-03-04T16:20:31.345-08:00Pantone Color of the Year - Emerald<i>Emerald Green</i><br />
Pantone tells us that <a href="http://www.pantone.com/pages/index.aspx?pg=21055&from=hp" target="_blank">Emerald is the color of the year for 2013</a>. I took a look at our palette and while we've been known for our rich earthy Craftsman greens Pratt & Larson also makes quite a few brighter, more Emerald greens too.<br />
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There are beautiful greens in all our glaze families.</div>
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If Emerald is a little too dark for you we have a green for everyone. </div>
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There's more Emerald green pictures on <a href="http://pinterest.com/prattandlarson/emerald/" target="_blank">our Pinterest page</a> too, be sure to follow us for lots of great pictures.<br />
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Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-36934070288704087842013-02-14T11:25:00.000-08:002013-02-14T11:25:05.468-08:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Valentine's Day ~ It's a red roundup!</span></div>
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Nothing says love like the color red, and we have some great red tile in the showroom. </div>
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1. Chiaro Glass by M2</div>
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2. Oceanside Tessera</div>
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3. Oceanside Muse</div>
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4. McIntyre</div>
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5. Sicis</div>
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6. Bedrock Glass</div>
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7. Kaleidoscope Glass by M2</div>
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8. Pratt & Larson</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope you have a great Valentine's Day! </span></div>
Pratt and Larsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09232440995249692765noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2582600193105476279.post-7983762818058322302013-01-08T13:05:00.001-08:002013-01-08T13:05:23.095-08:00The New Mosaic Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We finished the floors in the mosaic room over the holiday break. It looks terrific, and it's really great to have a whole space dedicated to our mosaics.</div>
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There are 9 new floor pads using our mosaic patterns in glazes suited for the floor. We've used some larger scale mosaics on the floors so you can compare the patterns in different sizes.</div>
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The Mosaic credenza is filling up too - the compartments on top hold boards that show many of our mosaic patterns in white so you can focus on the patterns first. In the drawers are 1x1 color samples so you can play around and create you own color blends to use with the pattern you choose.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As always - they look best in person so come on in for a visit! </span></div>
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Portland tile-makers Pratt & Larson keep stay true to the craft</h1>
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Published: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 10:00 AM Updated: <span class="updated" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2012-12-22T18:03:34Z">Saturday, December 22, 2012, 10:03 AM</span></h5>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">"Owning a forklift was never on my to-do list," says Reta Larson, sitting in the living room of the home she and husband Michael Pratt carved out of a cavernous commercial building they bought 15 years ago.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px; padding: 3px 0px 17px;">
But when your business, <a href="http://www.prattandlarson.com/" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Pratt & Larson Ceramics</a>, requires that thousands of pounds of handcrafted tiles move from production to the loading docks for national distribution, a forklift comes in mighty handy.</div>
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A business plan may have, too, but the two artists didn't think that way. They thought creatively and texturally, not about bottom lines, 401(k) plans or building a ceramics company into a nationally recognized name.</div>
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"Quite frankly," Larson continues, "we had no plans. We were dragged kicking and screaming along with the business. It just had a life of its own."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">That life began after a spur-of-the-moment decision to go to Mexico.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px; padding: 3px 0px 17px;">
Larson, then pregnant with their daughter, Bethany Pratt, said the couple -- whose first date was spent dancing to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Modal_Rounders" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;"> Holy Modal Rounders</a>at the <a href="http://www.mcmenamins.com/452-white-eagle-home" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">White Eagle Tavern</a> -- figured if they didn't travel before the baby came, the window of opportunity might never open again. Although she now laughs and advises that traveling while five months pregnant is not wise, the trip immersed them in a world of tile they had never seen. The exposure to the beauty of Mexican craft tiles filled the two artists with inspiration.</div>
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"We came back and started figuring out how to make it," says Larson. "And that's where it all started."</div>
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That was 30 years ago; the now nationally recognized tile company Pratt & Larson Ceramics started in the basement of the Southeast Portland home they lived in at the time. It has grown into a production house and retail store wedged between Portland's Southeast Water Avenue and the railroad tracks, with an additional 125 showrooms throughout the U.S. and Canada carrying the handcrafted creations.</div>
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"It's just inspiring to me that a couple -- a husband and wife artist team -- have built this," says Susanne Cavicchi, who is the marketing manager for Pratt & Larson and has been with the company for 21 years.</div>
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To understand what exactly it is that Pratt, 63, and Larson, 67, created is to take a walk back in time.</div>
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Artistic tile dates back thousands of years to the Egyptians and Persians, and remains a prosperous commodity throughout Europe to this day. In the United States, the art of handcrafted tile died during the Great Depression. What returned after World War II was a boom in man-made materials such as laminates. Tile languished as a building material, lining public bathrooms and, more glamorously, swimming pools. But tile as a fashion in interiors didn't exist. And any tiles of note were being imported from Europe and Mexico.</div>
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"Domestically made artistic tile was not happening," explains Tim Roberts, who has been in the tile industry since he worked alongside a tile setter after high school 40 years ago. A little over a year ago, Pratt and Larson hired Roberts as their CEO -- the company's first.</div>
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"Pratt & Larson was one of the first artisanal tiles to come back and be made in America," Roberts says.</div>
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Thirty years ago, the industry looked rather bleak. Today's fashion of tiling kitchens and bathrooms had yet to gain popularity. In 1986, when the industry started its ever-growing uptick, national sales totaled 900 million square feet. For 2012, the North American Tile Council predicts tile sales will total 2.2 billion square feet.</div>
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Pratt and Larson had jumped into an industry just as it blossomed.</div>
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In 1979, Norman Karlson, the New Yorker behind the flooring giant <a href="http://www.countryfloors.com/" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Country Floors</a>, was expanding to Los Angeles and hired Roberts to manage the showroom.</div>
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One day, Roberts was standing in the showroom with Karlson when a woman walked through the door with a tile in her hand.</div>
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The woman was Ann Sacks and the tile was made by Pratt & Larson Ceramics.</div>
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That meeting between Karlson and Sacks, who went on to create her <a href="http://www.annsacks.com/home.jsp" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">eponymous tile business</a>, linked Pratt & Larson Ceramics to Country Floors, which became a powerful distribution channel for the little Portland company.</div>
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Sacks sold her business in 1989 to kitchen and bath fixture king <a href="http://www.kohler.com/corporate/index.html" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Kohler</a>, staying on as chief creative officer until 2003. Her name remains on 22 showrooms throughout the United States.</div>
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Looking out a large window of the building that bears his name, Pratt comments that the bustling commercial district below wasn't always that way. When he and Larson bought the 60,000-square-foot warehouse in 1989, the area rang only with the sounds of the trains that still rumble through several times a day.</div>
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"It was a wasteland down here," he says. "There was nothing but half-empty, beige warehouses. ... It was a good place to start."</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">When they moved into the building, the company wasn't large enough to fill it. Now, they have bought an additional building nearby. At its height, Pratt & Larson employed 140; the recent economic recession cut that down to 84.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px; padding: 3px 0px 17px;">
Pratt, a lanky, soft-spoken man who favors his hair long, grew up in New Mexico and moved to Portland to attend art school at what is now the<a href="http://www.pnca.edu/" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Pacific Northwest College of Art</a>. Larson grew up in Idaho but moved with her family to Lake Oswego, where her father took a job as a high school principal. A textile artist, Larson went on to teach at what was then <a href="https://ocac.edu/" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Oregon School of Arts and Crafts</a>.</div>
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The two met through a mutual friend and have been together since that first date at the <a href="http://www.mcmenamins.com/452-white-eagle-home" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">White Eagle</a>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">They moved from Portland to Salem and back, in the meantime experimenting more and more with tile.</span><div style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px; padding: 3px 0px 17px;">
Pratt landed a commission to create a tile frieze for <a href="http://www.hultcenter.org/" style="color: #305cb6; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial;">Eugene's Hult Center</a> for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1982, and that, he says, was his first big tile job.</div>
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But it's not as if business exploded after that, he says. "Our business started one day at a time. You know, you get on the bus and you're along for the ride."</div>
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The ride became a long journey to learn everything they could about making tile and making a business out of it.</div>
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"We basically made it up," he says, standing inside their production facility where many of the workers, earbuds in place, hum along to their own playlists.</div>
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Many of the large tile companies of today -- there are 17 manufacturers in the United States -- are automated. Some extrude only one color of one size of tile, but they do so by the thousands. Like Pratt & Larson, there are smaller art-studio firms throughout the country, Pratt says, but many of them have not weathered the economic storm of the past few years.</div>
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At Pratt & Larson, some employees sit, utensils in hand, applying color to one tile at a time. All the employees are trained on-site to the specifications of Pratt & Larson, where even the kilns were custom-designed to fit their needs.</div>
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"We're certainly one of the largest (tile) companies working in this manner," Pratt said, declining to divulge his company's financials. They have, he says, hundreds of jobs in production every day, six days a week.</div>
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"This manner" is what Roberts, the CEO, says sets them apart.</div>
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"We are unique as someone wants us to be and as quiet and subtle as your project demands."</div>
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Roberts cites a recent $30,000 job that required simple white, 3-by-6-inch tiles. But the job also called for 16 very specific pieces of tile trim. And because Pratt & Larson was willing to devote two people to those 16 pieces for as many hours as it took to complete them, they landed the entire job. Roberts laughs and says job efficiency experts would shake their heads at the way they staff for the numbers of tiles they make, but it's what they do, because that's how Pratt and Larson want to work. They want to remain flexible and creative and be able to make custom tiles.</div>
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Striving for an efficient balance sheet would subtract from the quality of a product, Roberts says.</div>
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"It's a unique environment," Roberts says. "Its uniqueness is absolutely its strength."</div>
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Yet the company is not so unique that it can't service a broad marketplace through both its dealer network -- Pratt & Larson parted ways with Country Floors in 2000 -- and its own retail showroom, where many other vendors' tiles are displayed as well as its own.</div>
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Larson, a slight woman with a quick laugh, smiles as she thinks back over the years.</div>
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"It's insane," she says of the journey. But she and Pratt worked tirelessly to stay in control of their products and have been conservative with their money.</div>
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"We took care of it. We didn't want a partner," she says, looking at Pratt sitting across from her, natural light pouring in the large window of their living room. "We're already partners."</div>
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Larson, who is vice president of the company, doesn't involved herself with the business day to day as Pratt does, but she gets a rundown each evening from him and they brainstorm on what should be happening or what could be happening.</div>
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"I still feel like I am very active," she says.</div>
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On an average day, Larson can be found either working in her studio or running Side Street Gallery, her shop below their home where she sells all sorts of holiday decorations, greeting cards, handmade jewelry, artwork and perhaps one of the largest collections of retro, plastic light-up blow molds such as reindeer, candles and snowmen, which have proved to be huge sellers.</div>
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"My friends thought I'd lost my mind," she says of her affinity for the plastic light-ups, as she calls them.</div>
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Hiring Roberts as CEO does not signal any sort of retirement for either one of them. If anything, it allows them to re-engage on the creative side, and, as Larson said, "let people handle the stuff we're not good at."</div>
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Considering that some of their 84 employees have been with them since Day One and others have worked until retirement, Pratt and Larson have obviously mastered the skills necessary to manage as well as create -- even if management is not their first love.</div>
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"Our heart and soul is in the art," Pratt says.</div>
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