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The artworks were found in a banqueting hall with dramatic black walls and a mosaic floor made of more than 1 million white tiles.

That’s because Broken Plates glass artist Gillian Preston used pieces of the 1930s Venetian gilded-glass tiles from the building’s original golden mosaic to craft these.

Handcrafted tiles may have put this 76-year-old California company on the map back in the ‘80s, but it’s the dinnerware and housewares that keep it there. Case in point is this bud vase designed by co-founder Edith Heath back in the ‘80s.

The social media magnate is dressed to the nines in a sequin jacket patterned like tin ceiling tiles.

Beyond the memories, the only trace of the great man is La Casa — the rambling, Spanish-style home with a terracotta roof, stucco walls and inlaid ceramic tiles that Valenzuela built for his family during the exhilarating, and financially remunerative, days of Fernandomania.