{"id":2201,"date":"2025-10-29T22:11:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T22:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:36:35","slug":"trying-to-track-down-a-tile-mosaic-floor-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/trying-to-track-down-a-tile-mosaic-floor-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to track down a tile mosaic floor in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking back at some old pictures from a trip to Paris in 2012, and this broken tile mosaic floor caught my attention. I photographed it since I loved the look and style of it, but I neglected to take a picture of the store or cafe in which I found it. You’d think that something like this would be somewhat unique, but an image search reveals a fair number of similar-style mosaic floors, including multiple locations in Paris. Granted, what was seen in 2012 may no longer be there now, and my location-tagging from my iPhone at the time places this location on Rue Saint-Dominique near the intersection with Rue Augereau, but a current-day street view doesn’t reveal anything that seems to have this floor.<\/p>\n

I see a similar floor at the Brasserie De L’Opera, but that’s in Vichy, not Paris; someone’s blog post shows a picture of a similar floor at the restaurant Le Baratin, but that’s in a different part of Paris. Maybe this type of flooring is not so unique afterall? I guess not, since you can order something similar from a manufacturer in China, although maybe they ripped it off after seeing pictures of something like it in Paris.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I love this design and would be open to the idea of having a floor like this in a house of mine if the situation presented itself.<\/p>\n

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Mosaic tile floor seen in a restaurant (?) in Paris, France in 2012.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You know what it is? I think maybe subconsciously I was attracted to this because I had a phase in the late 1980s and even extending up through the 2000s where I made art in this style. Two samples of this include my drawing “Untitled” from 1987, below left, and “The Bather” from 2009, below right – both executed before seeing the mosaic tile floor in Paris – I only bring this up so that you don’t think I simply copied the style.<\/p>\n

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Mosaic-like art by artist Mark McKinney, a drawing from 1987 and a painting from 2009.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was looking back at some old pictures from a trip to Paris in 2012, and this broken tile mosaic floor caught my attention. I photographed it since I loved the look and style of it, but I neglected to take a picture of the store or cafe in which I found it. You’d think … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,50],"tags":[305,314,514,580,745],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-i-like","category-found-art","category-travel-explore","tag-france","tag-funky-style","tag-mosaic-tile","tag-paris","tag-tile-floor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}