Charcoal Photo Tiles in a Box Frame

No colour, no filter, no noise: just light, shadow and the stroke of a charcoal stick — at thirty centimetres, in a frame. Charcoal Photo Tiles in a Box Frame turns your photo into a classic black-and-white drawing and fires the result onto four 15-centimetre ceramic tiles that together form one 30 by 30 image. It is by a wide margin the largest thing we make in ceramic.

What makes this style special?

The Charcoal Drawing style works the way an artist works: first the form, then the tone. Visible hatching, soft transitions in the skin, deep shadows along the jaw and nose, and a light paper texture underneath it all. Face, gaze and expression stay exactly as they are in your photo — nothing is prettified, only told differently.

On this format the stroke is the argument. A charcoal stroke simply carries on across the seam between two tiles, where a crisp photographic edge would look interrupted. And at thirty centimetres you see every hatch as large as it is on the drawing paper itself.

Why this format?

One photo is spread across four tiles, and those tiles sit edge to edge inside the frame. So a cross of seams runs straight through your image. That is not a flaw: it is exactly why this piece does not look like a poster. You can see it is fired ceramic, in four parts, with the depth and the faint sheen only ceramic gives — and from a metre and a half away the seams disappear and you just see the drawing.

Prefer four separate photos, one per tile? That works too: four grandchildren, four generations, the four faces of one family, all in the same timeless black and white and the same frame. The frame is a real box frame: the ceramic sits recessed, with a border around it. Choose between natural oak-look and black.

Who is it for?

Charcoal is the style for the moments you do not want to celebrate loudly: a wedding photo, your parents, grandma and grandpa. At thirty centimetres such a keepsake becomes the centre of the room. For the wall that has been empty for years, for an anniversary or a retirement — a gift you do not slip into a bag but hand over. And for everyone who already owns a charcoal tile and thought: lovely, but can it be big?

How do I hang it?

You do not have to do anything. It arrives framed and complete, ready to go on the wall — no tile stand, no hanging hook, no loose parts. For the same reason this product has no options: there is nothing to add, because it is all already on it.

Material & quality

- Material: four ceramic tiles (approx. 5 mm thick) in a box frame

- Size: 30 × 30 cm in total, four tiles of 15 × 15 cm

- Frame: natural oak-look or black

- Print: razor-sharp and colour-fast, down to the finest greys

- Easy to clean with a damp cloth

Four tiles, one drawing

Commissioning a thirty-centimetre charcoal portrait takes weeks. This takes about a minute, and you see the result before you order. Then you hang it up — and the wall is done.