Lambini & Sons
I am happy to see Lambini & Sons in today’s Far Side selection.
Lambini & Sons
As the son of a tile man, I had a clipped-from-the-newspaper copy on my office door for years.
Tinta Azul
I know that one is never supposed to buy wine for the label, especially not a label with a picture of a critter. But Tinta Azul I had to buy for its label. Look: tile work. And the name means “blue ink.”
Zip ties and grout
Zip ties are fasteners. Grout, not so much.
Fine Arts tile
If the floor is as old as the building, it’s from 1886.
From a file folder
My dad sent me this questionnaire probably not long after I moved to Boston.
Labor Day
At the Library of Congress, a restorer at work.
Watts tiles
Details of the Watts Towers.
Snoopy ceramic tile
Snoopy gets a new doghouse. My dad didn’t do the tile work.
SMITH BUILDING
Words from hexagons: a beautiful feature of the dowdy world.
A little bathroom humor
A good clue in today’s New York Times crossword.
96th and Lexington
Tile work, NYC subway station
No job too small
I see more frequent and more exotic homonym errors than I used to. Maybe the most surprising so far is pros for prose . But sometimes even ...
Leddy Ceramic Tile
For whatever reason, Google no longer finds the link to a post that mentioned my now-retired dad's tile business, Leddy Ceramic Tile. I ...