{"id":480,"date":"2013-08-30T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2018-08-03T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T16:14:34","slug":"inspiration-piazza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/inspiration-piazza\/","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiration for Piazza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our new <a title=\"The Floors of Venice\" href=\"\/cement-tile\/series\/venetian\/\">Venetian Collection<\/a> tiles, <a title=\"&quot;Piazza&quot; Cement Tile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/cement-tile\/patterns\/piazza\/\">Piazza<\/a>, creates a pattern of linked barbed quatrefoils. \u00a0The <a title=\"Wikipedia: Quatrefoil\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quatrefoil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quatrefoil<\/a>, from the Latin\u00a0\u00a0<i>quattuor<\/i> and\u00a0\u00a0<i><i>folium,<\/i><\/i> &#8220;four leaves&#8221; became a common theme in Christian art, and reached it&#8217;s height in Gothic and Renaissance architecture.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/cement-tile\/patterns\/piazza\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/cement-tile-in-stock\/piazza-cement-tile-6x5.jpg\" alt=\"A 6x5 layout of \" width=\"630\" height=\"525\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Piazza&#8221;, from the Venetian Collection, In Oxford Gray and White.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This pattern can be found throughout European architecture, including <a title=\"Wikipedia: Notre Dame de Paris\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Notre_Dame_de_Paris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Notre-Dame de Paris<\/a>, and the great abundance of of this pattern in Venice inspired Lundy to create this Villa Lagoon Tile exclusive cement tile.<\/p>\n<p>Katie, author of the blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoriginally.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Originally<\/a>, found a stunning example on her honeymoon trip through Europe, in one of the courtyards of the Doge&#8217;s Palace in Venice.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/italian-cement-tile\/venice-pavement-tile-quadrafoil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/italian-cement-tile\/venice-pavement-tile-quadrafoil.jpg\" alt=\"A stone courtyard at the Doge's Palace in Venice, featuring a barbed quatrefoil pattern.\" width=\"630\" height=\"482\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stonework quatrefoil in Venice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You can see Katie&#8217;s full post here: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveoriginally.com\/im-baaaaaaack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I&#8217;m baaaaack!<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can see our in-stock &#8220;Piazza&#8221; tile <a title=\"&quot;Piazza&quot; cement tile.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/cement-tile\/patterns\/piazza\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/cement-tile\/patterns\/piazza\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/images\/cement-tile-in-stock\/210b\/piazza-grande-cement-tile-210b.jpg\" alt=\"Four \" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Piazza&#8221; Cement Tile<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Or see our entire Venetian Collection <a title=\"The Floors of Venice\" href=\"\/cement-tile\/series\/venetian\/\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-483\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/cement-tile\/series\/venetian\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-483\" src=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/venetian-canal.jpg\" alt=\"A stylized image of a Venetian canal scene.\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/venetian-canal.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/venetian-canal-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Floors of Venice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our new Venetian Collection tiles, Piazza, creates a pattern of linked barbed quatrefoils. \u00a0The quatrefoil, from the Latin\u00a0\u00a0quattuor and\u00a0\u00a0folium, &#8220;four leaves&#8221; became a common theme in Christian art, and reached it&#8217;s height in Gothic and Renaissance architecture. This pattern can be found throughout European architecture, including Notre-Dame de Paris, and the great abundance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/inspiration-piazza\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Inspiration for Piazza<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-and-style","category-product-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Inspiration for Piazza - Cement Style<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.villalagoontile.com\/blog\/inspiration-piazza\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"John M. 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