Italian hand-made "cotto" bricks
 

We recently purchased a house and I've been dreaming about ripping up the carpet and laying handmade italian cotto (terracotta) tiles or bricks. I know I can find the tiles made in Mexico (saltillo) but do you know of a good resource to purchase good italian tiles? I live in Dallas but would be willing to purchase from any place.

Sorry, I know it's not a travel question. If anyone wants to correspond w/ me directly, I'm at [email protected]

thanks.

I wrote you an e-mail about the vintage floor tiles in used in my kitchen.

This Web site lists hundreds of brands, including the one referred to below.

http://www.europamericantile.com/brands.html

Cotto Sannini Impruneta seems to be a major producer in Italy. It has a Web sites at

www.sannini.com
and
www.sannini.it

The company I wrote to you about, WalkerZanger, has a showroom in Dallas. The tile I used is from their Maison Franciase line; they are much more lovely in reality than in the catalogue photos.

thanks, I did see that they had a Dallas Showroom. I will try to make it there soon. Thanks for the website info Eloise.