Colorful tile designs

 

All of these features are on schools in St. Louis except the last, which is on a church.

Brick: three dimensions

Adding relief to a flat surface adds interest for the eye to explore.
If you would like to know the location of any of these features, please email me.
Most of these photos are taken at old St. Louis schools.

Stone faces

Why would an architect put these faces across the front of a school?

These are on Cleveland School in south city. They remind me of fairy tale characters. They seem somewhat menacing, or are they themselves fearful, or doubtful? I wonder what kids think about them.

Tiles: trades and tasks

Over the front doors of Cleveland School in south city is a series of nine trades or tasks being performed by seven men and two women. They are in high relief and very colorful.

Over in the How We Use Our Language Dept., it is interesting to me that the seven men are titled with their jobs, ie, Chemist, or Blacksmith. The two women are labeled with their tasks, ie, Churning and Spinning.

Why aren't the men Glassblowing and Blacksmithing? Or, the more interesting question, why isn't the one woman a Churner and the other a Spinner?