b'DECORATIVE TILEWorlds Fair mural: P.S. 19,in the decorative and fine arts that Queens, N.Y.flourishedinEuropeandNorth N.Y. Tilemakers(NYT),foundedAmerica between 1880 and 1910. by Andru Eron, has been has beenItstoodfortraditionalcraftsman-basedinNewYorkCityfor18ship using simple forms, and often years.Thisyear,N.Y.Tilemakersusedmedieval,romanticorfolk relocatedtoLongIslandCity,instyles of decoration. the borough of Queens. It startedN.Y.Tilemakers(nytilemakers.outdesigningandfabricatingartcom)hascompletedtwolarge tilesforresidentialprojects,butmurals for the School Construction itsnowfocusedonmuralmak- Authority, an agency of the City of ing. All tiles are crafted in The ArtsNew York, with additional murals andCraftstradition,amovementscheduled for this year and 2020.Following a collapse of the Williamsburg building, Eron took possession of this spaceoriginally a personal fitness busi-nessin late April, 2019. NYT was able to make its first tiles exactly four monthsNYT checked for fit after tiles were bisque from the day of the collapse of the formerfired. All tiles were then glazed, and fired place.a second time.This is a detail of the central motif of the mural. It illustrates artist Cheryl Molnars vision of the New York State pavilion from the 1964 Worlds Fair.84TileLetter | September 2019'