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[@fatimaribeiro6768]

Hi Alexander, love your channel. I'm very happy and proud for this video. I'm from Portugal, you never disappoint

[@BobaSpringFlower]

Thank you for including the history that the tiles were brought from North Africa🩷 Muslims so often see their history overlooked and credited to Europeans. Love your content!

[@wayfair]

We're glad we nailed it!

[@darylvondunker327]

Such a delightful presentation of a timeless tradition of beauty, grace and art! Thank you again for such a gorgeous video of a historical tile smorgasbord and modern articles we can read and drool over. Hugs and Loves!

[@wayfair]

We're so glad you enjoy it!

[@sandraameliavilaca9663]

Alexandra loved this episode. I'm a portuguese living in England, and it's always so good to hear things about our country and culture. Portuguese azulejos are a beauty and can be seen all over. In train stations,churches,cathedrals, palaces and so many other buildings and streets. Thanks for sharing a little bit of my beautiful country 🥰

[@wayfair]

We're so glad you've enjoyed it!

[@miatarraf3414]

Love that the fact it was North African is included in the story of how this style of tile became popular in Portugal

[@CallMeErie]

This video is loaded with beauty, including the eye-poppingly gorgeous tiles and colors, and your beautiful dress.😊💙

[@anapontopina86]

I am Portuguese and have been your fan for a while, so listening this episode and how you honoured Portuguese culture while conveying a message was gold for me 🇵🇹❤️

[@wayfair]

We're so glad it resonated so deeply with you!

[@Mrscorreia74]

I follow you from Portugal. This was a lovely surprise!

[@wayfair]

We hope we did Portugal justice!

[@nancysavard4322]

Yes. That wallpaper you're standing in front of at 5:18 is what I installed as a back splash in my kitchen and I absolute love it!!!

[@wayfair]

Great minds think alike! Thanks for sharing!

[@sharonbaptista1122]

Just came back from the Azores and the tiles were beautiful.

[@wayfair]

Sounds amazing!

[@debsmcd9968]

I love this, as a Portuguese-American I think it's wonderful that other people are appreciating this style I've loved all my life. We were able to visit the Azores in 2019 and have so many photos of the various tile-covered buildings, and tile scenes. I am also a big fan of Alexandra Gater and have been for a long time. Just a suggestion, as I see this happens often: Portuguese pronunciation is different than Spanish and the "j" is not silent. Azulejos is pronounced ah-zoo-lay-zhews (like the z in zhuzsh). Thanks for the wonderful series!

[@vaderladyl]

J is not silent in Spanish either.

[@chandrasutton4669]

Love your lovely blue and white dress, and the tile is nice, too!!!😊🎉❤

[@joaovaranda4759]

Loved the video. Always nice to see portuguese heritage shared. If you allow me one petty little correction: at 3:13 is shown the beautiful wall and ceiling decoration of the master bedroom in Pena Palace, Sintra, which is not ceramic tile but rather painted stucco.

[@nahaiatours]

Alexandra Gater a falar de Portugal? 🤩 Sign me up!

[@wayfair]

We're all here for it!

[@helenaribeiro9812]

Hello Alexandra! How you pronounce the " J" is not so important, at list for me. You are not an expert in languages but in decoration and a very good one, that is exactly why I like you and your work. And now back to the tiles, Your presentation on tiles in Potugal was very good indeed. I'm Portuguese, I live in Portugal, although I also lived abroad. Alexandra you are very welcome here to visit us our beatiful country, people, food and " TILES " 😂

[@veracorreia4772]

Exatamente!!!!❤

[@debsmcd9968]

Also, LOVE your dress and all the ways you educate and inspire! ❤

[@cosmichouseofrose9788]

I love decorative tile!❤ Thank you!

[@Mrscorreia74]

In Portugal, “azulejos” serve another purpose: they protect the exterior of our houses from “salitre”, from the sea.

[@sidecharacter0167]

In Malaysia, Peranakan architecture also makes use of eclectic, colourful tiles. I wonder if the tile making is brought over by the Portuguese. Peranakan architecture and interior design is uniquely beautiful and worth looking at imo as it is a mix of Chinese, Malay, and European influences.

[@fabienneroure9995]

Hi Alexandra, I enjoyed the video.💙🤍 The tiles are beautiful and your dress is very pretty!💙🤍🦋

[@katefitzgibbon4270]

How lovely to get the history, love your dress too ❤

[@wayfair]

Do you prefer subway tiles or Portuguese tiles?

[@lindywallace9540]

Portuguese tiles

[@lindamoon4255]

Great dress, Alexandra!

[@lechatbotte.]

I’m tired of subway tile. But the Portuguese tile is timeless

[@wayfair]

@@lechatbotte. It's a classic!

[@vaderladyl]

@@lechatbotte. both are timeless but subway tile right now is being overdone, that is why it feels trendy.

[@Lily4444]

Love them and have them in my house over 20 years❤❤

[@amyweaver7413]

Great video Alexandra!👏👏👏

[@cmartins745]

In Portuguese you pronounce the J in azulejo. In your video you had a Spanish accent. You can hear the j in google translate even tho it’s in a Brazilian accent. In any case, great video!

[@vaderladyl]

also in Spanish, the J is pronounced.

[@shirleymcneil4410]

Alexandra could you please tell me the name of the app you use to place all your ideas? I need it!

[@fraurosenthal2958]

I was at lisbon this year and saw the maritime mural in this video.

[@wayfair]

You're living our dream!

[@maxinejacobson4006]

I had a tile “carpet” laid in my sitting room, everybody loves it, including me! It has a border and is surrounded by plain grey tiles.

[@wayfair]

We love that innovation!

[@BobbyBermuda1986]

Unfortunately, you pronounced the J in 'azulejo' as an H sound, which is Spanish 🫣 J in Portuguese is pronounced as in French, so a ZH sound as in 'measure' or 'treasure'.

[@AshleyOliviaDaCosta]

I’d be more upset about it if I hadn’t also heard her try to pronounce isopropyl alcohol. 😂 IsoPoPo. We love you, girl. 😂

[@Michelle34485]

I didn’t realize and didn’t know that she needed a grammar police to correct her pronunciation and grammar of how she pronounces certain words. 😱😱😱😱😳😳😳😳😳

[@monicagim2506]

I came here to say this too. Unfortunately the use of Spanish language pronunciation for Portuguese words is a very common mistake across English speakers. In this case, the problem is a lack of research and prep from the writers and producers of this video. Maybe a bit of cultural awareness. Mixing Spanish and Portuguese is one of the things that bothers Portuguese speakers (myself included) a lot! I promise I'm not hating on Alexandra. 😊

[@AshleyOliviaDaCosta]

@@Michelle34485 it’s not grammar. It’s culturally insensitive at best and offensive at worst.

[@Eloiseat6]

Pronunciation police here. The “th” in “aesthetic” is pronounced. It’s not reduced to a “t.”

[@noraemma6809]

Love Portugal Irish coleen in Salem Mass ❤❤

[@lucretiaweil75]

In Portugal we love Ireland as well 💚💚

[@dianahb0]

Dear Alexandra, I know you don't speak portuguese, but as a Brazilian person that does, it kinda anoying to hear you speak "azuleJo" with an spanish pronuciation 😂. But i like the video and the history behind portuguese titles!!! PS: my english may be broken, but I'm not doing a video.

[@vaderladyl]

she is pronouncing the J but a bit more American, it is not a silent J in spanish

[@leeprochazka5420]

We noticed a lot of strange stuff on wayfair. What happened to the high dollar pillows and closets?!?!

[@PS-bs8oe]

In ur azulejos style dress u so much look like a portuguese menina ;-)

[@vaderladyl]

Funny that I have always being into all of these and seeing people going gaga like it is their first time, is so bizarre to me. To me it goes way beyond trends, it is a lifestyle and a state of mind.

[@lorenaburgess9097]

Did you see the hack they put blue tape on wall then put peal and stick Tile over the blue tape .😊

[@Eloiseat6]

There’s a disconnect here, in that if azulejo (why are they called azulejo? Because they’re blue?) tiles are assembled to tell a story, where do the purely decorative, mismatched tiles fall in this history? I see the decorative tiles on Portuguese buildings but they don’t take us to, for example, the mixed tile decoration you’re sitting in front of, nor are they assembled to tell a story. Also, what are they made of and how are they attached to surfaces to make them “earthquake-proof”? I realize you have limited time to talk about them, but these seem like important points.

[@lucretiaweil75]

The Portuguese and Spanish word AZUL (blue) comes from the persian lazhward (lápis-lazúli).The word azulejo is derived from the Arabic al-zillīj, zellij meaning "small polished stone" because the original idea was to imitate the Byzantine and Roman mosaics. Blue and white azulejos only began to be created massively in the 18th century influenced by Chinese porcelain and Dutch tiles (influenced by the Chinese as well). The mixed tile decoration are used in Portugal (and worldwide) in contemporary design, which she didn't refer much to.

[@patriciacaceres3167]

LOVED IT!!!!!

[@rachelpitt-u4o]

Alexandra, is that you? Old Aussie fan asking. ❤

[@gottathinkupanewone]

I love your dress. You look like you were made by hand in Dresden.

[@popovka]

Versa*TILE 😊

[@wayfair]

We see what you did there!

[@CarolinaSanz-qy3hz]

We tile everything

[@moniquemanspeaker7803]

Like your dress

[@gurujiwan]

Why note Spain?

[@CarolinaSanz-qy3hz]

Spain too.

[@Tantejuju65]

A style is born? Really. Portugal is ancient, it has been popular forever...

[@helenareid5084]

Yes, but she is talking about the popularity of Portuguese tile in design trends currently.

[@eugenianovillo4136]

I prefer Moroccan, then Portuguese, then Mexican and last subway tiles😂❤

[@starveartist]

You keep using the Spanish pronunciation (same spelling and different pronunciation in Spanish and Portuguese.) Azulejo has a Portuguese zs like ZsaZsa Gabor or Je in French.

[@vaderladyl]

well, that is how it is pronounced in Spanish so that is what she is using, nobody made her aware of that for the video.

[@starveartist]

@@vaderladyl yes, but it is the wrong pronunciation for what she is talking about... PORTUGUESE tiles.

[@vaderladyl]

@@starveartist she is trying, let her be. Better than most Americans could ever do.

[@starveartist]

@@vaderladyl PSSST (she's not American....and even has British parents!)

[@vaderladyl]

@@starveartist her cultural makeup seems American. Her accent is totally American, which is what everybody is critiquing so...

[@Martianista]

It is pronounced "azulezhos", as in "zhuzh". Portuguese is different from Spanish ;)

[@anabeladelgado4109]

How did you not Google translate how to say the word azulejo 🙈

[@restauradosporamor7872]

If the first language is not Portuguese or Spanish, she is going to sound with a accent

[@vaderladyl]

she is doing an American accent with the pronunciation in Spanish

[@dyutibasu4541]

This is all true and well researched but i still say the tile capital of the world is Uzbekistan.

[@dtulip1]

would that be Vers a TILE 😆

[@wayfair]

You said it, not us! 🤣

[@Nclk619]

You are pronouncing azulejo wrong. We speak português not Spanish

[@vaderladyl]

she is using the Spanish pronunciation with an American accent,

[@TheDecimusic]

we've been doing this trend before covid girl! hahahha...just admit it. everyone wants to be european:) lol. love from amsterdam

[@carlap480]

Im portuguese and live in Lisboa and unfortunatly they are beeing stolan and sold .

[@lucretiaweil75]

Not so much nowadays. It was worse years ago.

[@Koko70816]

By whom? Why would people steal tiles

[@canis002]

This is a sure way to trigger a Portuguese person... its Azulejo with a soft "J" , don't pronounce the "J" like it's Spanish.. we use a sof J.. like Juliet, or Japan . Not that Throat sound the Spaniards use.

[@lindathornton4048]

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