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Utility Wallpaper is a range of innovative ceramic finishes for the domestic, commercial and urban environment inspired by Scotland’s design history.

Innumerable finishes are possible with tiles from the Wally and Half-a-Heart ranges and allow the creation of individual patterns from pure simplicity to ultimate complexity.

Utility Wallpaper’ won Best Product at the Scottish Design Awards 2005

WALLY

Tenements were Scotland’s mass residential typology of the industrial era. Built in the period from 1880 to 1914 they can be seen throughout Glasgow today. Continuous sandstone buildings, subdivided into houses and flats, snaked along streets and developed a language and a culture all their own.

Tenement flats were accessed from a common stair or ‘close’, often covered in plain ceramic tiles with a band of raised ornamental tiles above. This type of tiled wall decoration was known as a 'wally close’; from the Scots word 'wally', meaning ceramic. 'Wally closes' were found in high class tenements with people so proud of them they would clean them communally on Friday nights.

NORD’S Wally tile is a geometric interpretation of patterns found in tenement closes of the time.

£ Per sq.m: POA

HALF-A-HEART

From approximately 1890 to 1920, the Glasgow Four, led by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, worked around the Glasgow School of Art. They group produced decorative works of furniture, architecture, panels and embroideries that allowed them to be quickly recognised as the leading figures in Scottish Art Nouveau and Scottish Arts and Crafts.

The Glasgow Four were heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and Symbolism and generated many stylistic details including organic forms and the female form. Motifs included the rose, heart, leaf and teardrop.

NORD’s Half-a-heart tile is a geometric interpretation of the Glasgow Four’s heart motif that was common within many of their works around Glasgow.

£ Per sq.m: POA

BESPOKE

NORD have significant experience in developing bespoke patterns or specific imagery tailored to any environment. With the ability to produce these in almost any material and colour the possibilities are endless.

£ per. Sq.m: POA