Flint Faience Tiles – AC Spark Plug’s Clever Spinoff That Beautified the World

Sloan Museum Curator of Collections, Geoff Woodcox, tells the intriguing genesis of Flint Faience Tiles. This short-lived tile company began with an unusual partnership between French-born Albert Champion, who founded AC Spark Plug (now ACDelco), and an entrepreneurial Belgian-born ceramic tile artist named Carl Bergmans. Faience is a style of tile named after a village in Italy and was very popular in the early 20th century. During the early days of spark plug manufacturing, there were times...