🚀 Will Mead made lamps for the White House and tile for Rittenhouse Square and the Columbus Circle subway station, from a shop in New Britain, PA.

He apprenticed at the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works in Doylestown, then spent about thirty years running Peace Valley Tile. His first paying commission was a date stone for a bank in Doylestown in 1985. He got busy on word of mouth alone, and he says he never learned to use social media and does not like it. He got deep into glaze chemistry, built a line of crystalline glazes that grow their own crystals as the kiln cools, and reproduced William Fulper's original recipes using modern materials. Opening the kiln, he says, was like Christmas. Sometimes you got coal in your stockings.

🎧 Anthony Pinto hosts Bucks Co Living and works as a top-producing RE/MAX REALTOR® in Newtown with 16+ years as a Realtor, Property Manager, and Relocation Specialist across Bucks County, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia. He knows why a buyer picks one town over the next, and what a house has in it is part of that math. Will knows the other side of it. What 9/11 did to a shop whose work was in New York City, what 2008 forced him to make instead including roof tile and electrical insulators, and the decision he still calls a mistake, which was dropping his production line to chase only the beautiful commissions.

🎧 Hosted by: Anthony Pinto

👤 Guest: 🏺 Will Mead – Tile Artisan | Founder, Peace Valley Tile | Moravian Tile Works Apprentice

Will Mead is the founder of Peace Valley Tile in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and a seasoned artisan with decades of experience designing custom tile installations across Bucks County. Now retired from active production, he manages his historic studio archive, preserving a legacy of handcrafted tilework for local collectors and homeowners.

💡 What You'll Learn:

✔️ Spot the difference between handmade and machine-made tile before anyone tells you

✔️ Build a business on word of mouth with no marketing and no social media

✔️ Survive two downturns by making whatever the moment will pay for

✔️ Know why your bread-and-butter work funds the work you actually want

✔️ Reproduce a color that no longer exists, one glaze test at a time

✔️ Take Henry Mercer's plus ultra past the thing you learned it from

✔️ Find the Bucks County towns and back roads a thirty-year craftsman drives for pleasure

🎵 Send this to whoever in your life still makes things with their hands.

💼 Connect with Will Mead:

📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/peacevalleytile

🎧 Follow Anthony Paul Pinto:

🌐 Website → https://www.buckscoliving.com/

📘 Facebook → https://www.facebook.com/anthonypaulpinto/

📸 Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/anthonyppinto

🔗 LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyppinto/

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