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Where Artistry Begins
Bespoke mosaic art and careful installation, laid piece by piece. Zavoré is based in Birmingham, and our artisans lay mosaic across the UK, including Bath.
Bath was a bathing city before it was a Georgian one, which makes mosaics in Bath feel at home. Zavoré designs bespoke mosaic art for your space and installs mosaics of every kind, from a single splashback to a full floor, including tiles you have bought yourself. We are based in Birmingham, where our Academy is, and the first step is to send the space, its measurements and your idea.
The Roman Baths are the reason the city exists, and the idea of a decorated bathing space has never really left. Bath still markets itself as a spa city, and a bathroom here can reasonably be a little grand.
Roman mosaic is built from small cut cubes called tesserae, and the craft has hardly changed in principle. The Romans also left mosaics across Britain, in villas such as Fishbourne and Bignor in West Sussex and Chedworth in Gloucestershire. A mosaic in a Bath house carries that long line of floors and walls.
The housing helps. Georgian townhouses have deep bathrooms and long entrance halls, and Victorian villas on the hills often have hall floors laid in pattern. A mosaic border, inlaid in a hall, suits them well.
Showers and shower floors are a strong case. Small pieces follow curves and falls that big tiles refuse to, and the many grout lines give a little more grip under bare feet. Glass takes in no water at all, which is why it is the sensible pick for pools, showers and anywhere constantly wet.
Behind a hob, sink or bar a mosaic splashback is a small area with a big effect. Hall floors and borders greet everyone who comes in. A feature wall or a pool design can be a picture, a crest or a logo made in tesserae.
In hotels, spas, restaurants and bars, mosaic can carry a brand mark in a reception floor or a bar front. See our mosaics page for materials from glass and smalti to marble and ceramic.
It begins with your brief. A scaled drawing follows, with colours and materials settled together, and then the pieces go down one at a time. The surface is prepared, the mosaic set and grouted, and sealing is added where the stone calls for it.
Whatever the pattern, the backing has to be sound, flat and suitable. We survey before pricing, and if a surface needs attention first we tell you straight. A soft old floor or a damp wall is dealt with before any tesserae go down. Photos often answer the early questions.
Bath is some way from Birmingham, so the work is planned in blocks of days and the team stays on the job. We fix dates after you have approved the design and the price. The detail is on our mosaic installation page.
If the property is listed, the owner should check with the council whether consent may be needed.
Everything we install, we teach. Courses run in Birmingham, London and Manchester, the same at each, and the training page lists them, while our wider decorative work shows how finishes sit together.
Tile supply is not something we offer at present, so we design and lay rather than sell by the box. If plaster is part of the room, the sample board helps with the walls around the mosaic.
Mosaic seldom works alone in a room, so here is how it meets our other trades. Sculpted walls are the subject of bas relief in Bath and sculptural plaster in Bath. For painted scenes on dry walls try murals in Bath, and for gold, gilding in Bath. Ceilings call for cornice and coving in Bath, glossy dining rooms for lacquered walls in Bath, and garden water for artificial rock in Bath. A lime stone look is explained under travertino in Bath. The wider team is on our decorative finishes specialist in Bath page, with polished walls at Venetian plastering in Bath.
Not currently. Our work is bespoke design and laying, and that includes pieces you have already chosen elsewhere. Describe your plan and we will say which material makes sense.
Usually glass. It resists water and holds deep colour and sparkle. Marble gives a softer, warmer tone, but it needs sealing wherever it gets wet or heavy use.
Yes. A brand mark, a crest, a pattern or a small scene can all be built in pieces. A scaled drawing comes first, so nothing is laid until you are happy with it.
Yes. Send photos, measurements and a note of the room, and we will price the fitting.
How firm, level and dry it is, and what the room is used for. If something has to be put right before the mosaic goes down, we say so before pricing.
Ring 07592 929191 between 9am and 6pm, Monday to Saturday, or write to sales@zavore.co.uk and attach a few photos, the approximate size and your postcode. For plaster tones beside the mosaic, the sample board is a good place to look.
Order a sample board tinted to your colour, or send photos and rough measurements of the walls in Bath and we will come back to you with the right finish and a clear quote.
For a quote, email photos and measurements of your walls to sales@zavore.co.uk or call 07592 929191, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6pm.
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Our main services: Venetian plaster installation, limewash installation, every decorative installation, Venetian plastering courses, the limewash course and our decorative finishes.
We also supply the trade by post, wherever you are. The shop ships tracked across the UK, and the Academy teaches the finishes in Birmingham, London and Manchester.
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Venetian plaster, limewash, microcement, tadelakt, metallics, sculptural plaster and gold leaf, supplied and installed by our own team, with Venetian plaster taught at our Birmingham studio.
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