"Just say 'mosaic tile house in Santa Monica.'"Ībout 13 years have passed since the couple set that first tile, and now the entire house on California Avenue at 26th Street is a shimmering montage that beckons the curious. Motorists routinely slam on their brakes to marvel at the eccentric artistry. They finished that wall, then tiled the walkway to the front door.įrom there, things escalated - to a traffic-stopping degree.
They broke or cut them with special nippers into irregular shapes and applied those to the wall, letting them radiate in no particular pattern from the original piece. They collected pieces of cobalt blue, aqua, plum and yellows from pale to sunny. It didn't take long before they were scrounging in Southland secondhand stores, Catalina boutiques and Las Vegas casino shops for more tiles, plates and figurines. Neither Aziz nor Louise Farnam can recall now where they found the periwinkle square, but, at their son Amiel's urging, they glued it to the upper-left corner of a low concrete retaining wall in front of their 1930s bungalow in Santa Monica.īoth had seen the elaborately tiled mosques and mausoleums in Esfahan, in their native Iran. The transformation started simply enough, with a molded ceramic tile of a flower framed by Celtic tracery.
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