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Designing an Entryway - Using Mosaics in Concrete

Length - 01:21

Award-winning designer Fu-Tung Cheng shows the interior of the tea shop he designed in Berkeley, Calif. He explains how he used decorative concrete and design to make an impression to the clients as soon as they approach the shop. To do this, he created a mosaic and integral colored concrete entryway with the tea shop's name, Teance, inlayed in the concrete surface.

The logo was created using stone tile. The tile was broken and cut into little mosaic pieces and then arranged to form the Teance logo. The arrangement was glued to cement board and then inlayed in the entry. Integral colored concrete was poured over the entire piece and the surface was polished to expose the mosaic logo.