Adelaide
— a thousand wines and a slow afternoon.
Not only on a wall.
“The capital of South Australia, set on the Adelaide Plains between the Mount Lofty Ranges and Gulf St Vincent. The city was laid out in 1836 by Colonel William Light on a grid ringed by parklands. The Torrens River runs east-west through the centre. The wine country of the Barossa, McLaren Vale, and the Adelaide Hills sits within an hour's drive, and the light here is dry and Mediterranean.
Adelaide, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, set on the Adelaide Plains between the Mount Lofty Ranges to the east and the long curve of Gulf St Vincent to the west. Founded in 1836 and laid out by Surveyor-General Colonel William Light, the city centre is built on a grid of five squares ringed by a continuous belt of parklands, a plan known as Light's Vision. The metropolitan population is about 1.4 million. The climate is Mediterranean: hot dry summers, mild wet winters, and a long shoulder of warm autumn weather.
Adelaide is sometimes called the festival city. The Adelaide Festival and the Adelaide Fringe both run through March; the Fringe, founded in 1960, is now the largest open-access arts festival in the southern hemisphere, with more than 7,000 artists across roughly a month. WOMADelaide brings world music to Botanic Park in early March. The city's Central Market in Grote Street, trading since 1869, is one of the largest covered fresh-produce markets in the southern hemisphere, and the calendar of the wine country in the Barossa runs steadily alongside.
The city is reached through Adelaide Airport, 6 kilometres west of the centre, with bus connections running into the city grid in about 20 minutes. The five squares (Victoria, Light, Hindmarsh, Hurtle, and Whitmore) sit within a 25-minute walk of one another, and the parklands ring is continuous around the perimeter. The wine districts of the Barossa Valley, McLaren Vale, and the Adelaide Hills lie within an hour by road. March, the festival month, is the busiest; April and May carry the warm autumn light without the heat.