Wender·Vista
Londrina
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileBrazil
in northern Paraná, on the old coffee frontier

Londrina

— — a city the British planted, that the coffee grew.

— 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
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— 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

“A planned city in northern Paraná, laid out in 1934 by a British land company. The name is a small joke: *Pequena Londres*, Little London. The coffee boom built it; soybeans kept it. A modernist concrete cathedral sits at the centre, conical and austere. Lago Igapó loops through the middle of town, where the joggers go in the late afternoon.

from the studio
Londrina
— bring it home

Londrina, 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 Londrina

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

Londrina is the second-largest city in the Brazilian state of Paraná, in the country's south, with a population of roughly 580,000. It sits on the historical coffee frontier, the *norte do Paraná*, opened to European-style agriculture in the 1930s. The city was founded on 10 December 1934 by the Companhia de Terras Norte do Paraná, a land company with British capital that had taken over from the earlier Paraná Plantations Ltd. The name was the company's joke: *Londrina*, the little London. The Universidade Estadual de Londrina was founded in 1970 and anchors the city's eastern campus.

— informed by Wikipedia — Londrina
— the year

The first decades of Londrina were coffee. Paraná was Brazil's largest coffee-producing state through the 1950s and 1960s, and Londrina was its commercial centre. Severe frosts in 1975, and again in the early 1980s, wiped out much of the regional crop, and the farmland shifted to soybeans, maize, and wheat. The city itself kept growing through agribusiness and a mix of immigration waves from southern Europe, Japan, and the Brazilian northeast. The Festival de Música de Londrina, founded in 1980, runs in July and is one of the larger classical music festivals in the country.

— the stone

The Catedral Metropolitana Sagrado Coração de Jesus, finished in 1972, replaced an earlier wooden church on the same site. Its design is by Prelvitz, Magalhães, and Brombilla: a conical concrete shell, sixty-five metres high, with a slim cross at the apex. The interior is a single room with no internal columns, set with vertical stained-glass slots that filter the southern light. It is one of the most distinctive modernist Catholic churches in Brazil and sits at the geographic centre of the old city grid, on Praça Rui Barbosa.

— where
Brazil · Londrina, Paraná
— elevation
610 m · 2,001 ft
— position
-23.3045° S · 51.1696° W
— 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.
13 km W
Cambé
city
18 km E
Ibiporã
town
100 km W
Maringá
city
380 km SE
Curitiba
state capital
N
Londrina
Cambé
Ibiporã
Maringá
Curitiba
— common questions

What people ask.

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

Londrina is in the north of Paraná state in southern Brazil, roughly four hundred kilometres west of São Paulo and a hundred north of Curitiba. Its population is about 580,000, making it Paraná's second-largest city.

The name is a small joke from the British-financed land company that laid out the city in 1934, the Companhia de Terras Norte do Paraná. *Londrina* is Portuguese for *little London*.

Londrina was officially founded on 10 December 1934 as a planned settlement on the northern Paraná coffee frontier. It grew rapidly through the 1940s and 1950s on the back of the regional coffee economy.

After the coffee crashes of the 1970s and 1980s, the regional economy shifted to soybeans, maize, wheat, and cattle. The city itself runs on agribusiness services, a public university, and regional medical and education sectors.

The Catedral Metropolitana Sagrado Coração de Jesus, finished in 1972, is a modernist concrete cone sixty-five metres high. It replaced an earlier wooden church and now anchors the centre of the city grid at Praça Rui Barbosa.

— about the piece in your home

It has been a meaningful gift for buyers from the city and the wider Paraná diaspora. The piece names the place plainly and reads as civic rather than touristic. A Small or Medium with a handwritten studio note carries well.

The palette is warm and earth-leaning, working with Brazilian-modern, tropical-modernist, and warm-Maximalist interiors. It also reads well against pale plaster walls with mid-century walnut or rattan.

A single Large at twenty-four inches centres well above a standard console. Above a sofa, a four-tile Mural or a nine-tile Mural fills the wall properly without feeling crowded.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for kitchens, backsplashes, and bathrooms. Both are scratch-resistant and tolerate steam and frequent wipe-downs. The Glossy finish is for framed wall display.

A soft microfibre cloth and plain water is all that is needed. Avoid abrasive pads and ammonia-based cleaners. The colour lives in the ceramic surface and will not fade from regular cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to the studio, painted in our stained-glass and alcohol-ink language. Nothing is licensed or resold from third parties.

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