London has been the home of the largest, most extensive decorative tiling project ever undertaken in Britain, The tiling of over 90 tube platforms, and associated passageways, staircases and surface-level booking halls, probably amounted to the largest single creation of decorative art on public display anywhere - and arguably the longest and thinnest art gallery in the world.
The focus of the schemes was the completion of three deep-level tube railways, opened in 1906/7: The Bakerloo, Piccadilly and Northern lines, where about 2 million tiles were used at platform lever for their decoration.
Each station had a unique coloured and pattern along the entire length of its platforms and some of them are reproduced here to give just a small flavour of their impact.
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Pratik Patel, BDM
Shreeji Ceramic
