shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileBosnia and Herzegovina

between Bosnia and Serbia, down from the Maglić massif

Drina

Name: Drina — on ceramic tile, by WenderVista
Brand: WenderVista

— — a river the colour of cold glass.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.

— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand

— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines

— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall

— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround

— a note from the studio

“The Drina runs 346 kilometres from the Tara-Piva confluence at Šćepan Polje to the Sava, its water so green that travellers have remarked on it for centuries. At Višegrad the river slips beneath Mehmed Paša Sokolović's eleven-arch bridge of 1577, the bridge Ivo Andrić made famous and the one UNESCO listed in 2007. The canyon walls hold the cold. The current is fast and clear.

from the studio

— bring it home

Drina, 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.

What kind of piece?

One tile — square or rectangle.

How big?

the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand

6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb

Surface finish

A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.

How it sits

A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.

$58

Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.

— size

6 × 6 in

15 cm

— weighs

1.6 lb

solid in the hand

— surface

ceramic, hand-finished

art rests beneath a thin glossy finish

— from

Knoxville, TN

our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies

— start a Coaster Set

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.

— about Drina

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.

— the place

The Drina is a 346-kilometre river in the western Balkans, forming most of the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. It begins at Šćepan Polje, where the Tara and Piva rivers meet below the Maglić massif, and runs north-east through deep limestone canyons before joining the Sava at Bosanska Rača. Major settlements on its banks include Foča, Goražde, Višegrad, and Zvornik. The river drains roughly 19,500 square kilometres of mountain country and remains one of the cleanest large rivers in Europe.

— informed by Wikipedia

— the water

The Drina's emerald green is the defining fact of the river. The colour comes from finely milled limestone carried out of the Durmitor and Maglić massifs, scattering the shorter wavelengths of sunlight the way Lago di Sorapis does in the Dolomites. The intensity shifts with the season: deepest green in late spring once snowmelt clears, lightening toward turquoise in high summer. The river is cold even in August. The canyon walls hold the air at the surface and the current moves fast.

— informed by Wikipedia

— the stone

The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge at Višegrad is the river's most photographed structure. Built between 1571 and 1577 to the design of the Ottoman court architect Mimar Sinan, it carries eleven stone arches across the Drina for 179 metres. The bridge gave Ivo Andrić the spine of his 1945 novel, for which he won the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature. UNESCO inscribed the bridge as a World Heritage Site in 2007. Damage from the 1992 floods and earlier wars has been carefully restored.

— informed by UNESCO

— where

Bosnia and Herzegovina · Drina Valley, Bosnia and Herzegovina

— position

43.7831° N · 19.2917° E

— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.

at the lake

Višegrad

Ottoman bridge town

45 km SW

Sutjeska National Park

primeval beech forest

30 km SW

Tara River Canyon

deepest canyon in Europe

Drina

Višegrad

Sutjeska National Park

Tara River Canyon

— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Drina — and about bringing the piece home.

— about the place

At Šćepan Polje on the Bosnian-Montenegrin border, where the Tara and Piva rivers meet below the Maglić massif. From there it runs about 346 kilometres north-east to join the Sava.

The colour comes from extremely fine limestone particles carried out of the Durmitor and Maglić mountains. The particles scatter the shorter wavelengths of sunlight, so the river reads green.

The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, an eleven-arch Ottoman stone bridge designed by Mimar Sinan and completed in 1577. UNESCO listed it as a World Heritage Site in 2007.

Yes. Ivo Andrić's 1945 novel "The Bridge on the Drina" centres on the Višegrad bridge across four centuries of Balkan history. The book earned him the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature.

For most of its course it forms the border between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Both countries share its fisheries, hydroelectric reservoirs, and the canyon trails along its banks.

In late spring and early summer, once the snowmelt has cleared and the limestone sediment is suspended at its finest. By August the colour lightens toward turquoise.

— about the piece in your home

The Drina runs through the centre of the Bosnian and Serbian imagination: Andrić's bridge, the canyon villages, the green water. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note suits a family with ties to either bank.

Mountain-modern, jewel-tone maximalist, and warm-stone interiors hold it best. The deep greens and Ottoman-bridge stone read well against walnut, brass, and unbleached linen.

Yes. Saturated emerald and forest greens have moved back into wall art over the last two seasons. The Drina piece anchors a room without overwhelming it.

A single Large suits most sofas. For a long wall, a four-tile Mural lets the river run its full length; a nine-tile Mural carries above a wide console.

Yes. Choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish for humid rooms; both resist scratching and hold colour through steam and splash.

A soft microfibre cloth and water are enough. The colour lives in the ceramic surface beneath a thin glossy finish, so it does not lift or fade with normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made in one studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, under Reid Wender's eye. Nothing is licensed in from outside.

— if this one stayed with you