Sjoelen

Sjoelen has been played in the Netherlands for centuries. It’s a tabletop game that involves sliding wooden pucks down a long, narrow board and through the holes at the end. If you’re not a pro, the pucks tend to miss and stack up, so blocking the holes. The more you try, the more difficult you make it for yourself. There’s probably a life lesson in their somewhere but this tile design eschews life lessons and instead, through the medium of handmade, screen-printed Eclipse tiles, evokes the fun and chaos of people of all ages playing sjoelen together!

Tiles: E4, E5, E6, E7, E8

Smink Studio Eclipse pattern: white handmade tiles with screen-printed half-circles in mustard, ochre and caramel.
Smink Studio Sjoelen design 1B: white glazed ceramic tiles with screen-printed half-circles in red and stone.

Colourway #1

Base glaze
PPWM soft white
Colours
105, 302

Colourway #2

Base glaze
PPWM soft white
Colours
007, 104, 300, 308
Smink Studio Sjoelen design 1A: white tiles with screen-printed half-circles in teal, sea green and deep green.

Colourway #3

Base glaze
PPWM soft white
Colours
506, 200, 201

Colourway #4

Base glaze
PPWM soft white
Colours
006, 007, 010, 106*

Installations

Long kitchen shelf above a splashback of Smink Studio Sjoelen glazed ceramic tiles in teal, blue and cream half-circles.

Design: La Fourcade
@juliette.macherey

Kitchen island with bar stools, faced with Smink Studio Sjoelen tiles in teal and blue screen-printed half-circles.

Design: Iconic by Kaitlyn Wolfe
Photography: Kevin Broost