Wender·Vista
Anticosti Island
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileCanada
in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off the Quebec north shore

Anticosti Island

— — a coast the ocean keeps to itself.

— 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

“An island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence the size of Corsica, with one village and around two hundred people. The French chocolatier Henri Menier bought it in 1895 as a hunting reserve and stocked it with white-tailed deer; their descendants still outnumber the residents many times over. In 2023 UNESCO listed the cliffs for their fossil record of the first mass extinction. The Vauréal River drops 76 metres in a single curtain. — from the studio

from the studio
Anticosti Island
— bring it home

Anticosti Island, 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 Anticosti Island

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

Anticosti is a Quebec island of about 7,943 square kilometres at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, between the Gaspé Peninsula and the Côte-Nord. It is the eighth-largest island in Canada and one of the least inhabited at scale — fewer than 230 residents, almost all in the village of Port-Menier on the western tip. The island has belonged to Quebec since 1974, after a long period of private ownership beginning with the French chocolatier Henri Menier in 1895. Most of the interior is a national park.

— the stone

In July 2023 UNESCO inscribed Anticosti on the World Heritage List for its sedimentary record of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, the first of the five great mass extinctions about 445 million years ago. The island's limestone cliffs and stream beds expose one of the most complete and best-preserved sequences of marine fossils from that interval anywhere on Earth, including graptolites, brachiopods, and early corals. Palaeontologists have worked the cliffs since the nineteenth century. The inscribed area covers roughly 7,300 square kilometres of the island.

— informed by UNESCO — Anticosti
— the water

The Vauréal River cuts a canyon across the island's east and drops 76 metres over a single ledge into a limestone basin — about half again the height of Niagara, with none of the noise. Anticosti has more than a hundred rivers, several of them strong Atlantic salmon waters; the Jupiter, the Saumon, and the Vauréal itself have been fished since the Menier era. Coastal shipwrecks number in the hundreds along the shoals, which earned the island its older name, the cemetery of the gulf.

— where
Canada · Côte-Nord, Quebec
— within
Anticosti National Park
— position
49.5000° N · 63.0000° 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.
50 km N
Havre-Saint-Pierre
ferry port
100 km S
Gaspé Peninsula
peninsula
N
Anticosti Island
Havre-Saint-Pierre
Gaspé Peninsula
— common questions

What people ask.

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

Anticosti lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the mouth of the river, between Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula to the south and the Côte-Nord to the north. It is administered as part of Côte-Nord.

The island covers about 7,943 square kilometres, the eighth largest in Canada and roughly the size of Corsica. Fewer than 230 people live there, almost all in Port-Menier on the western tip.

UNESCO inscribed Anticosti in July 2023 for its sedimentary record of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary, the first of the five great mass extinctions about 445 million years ago.

Henri Menier, the French chocolatier, bought Anticosti in 1895 as a private hunting reserve. He introduced white-tailed deer and built the village of Port-Menier. Quebec purchased the island from his successors in 1974.

The Vauréal River drops 76 metres in a single curtain into a limestone canyon on the island's east side. The falls are about half again the height of Niagara and reached by a hiking trail.

A ferry runs from Havre-Saint-Pierre on the Côte-Nord to Port-Menier in summer, and small aircraft serve Port-Menier from Mont-Joli and Sept-Îles. Most visitors come between June and October.

— about the piece in your home

It works for visitors with memories of the salmon rivers or the deer camps. The piece reads as the coast and the cliffs rather than the lodge. A Medium or Large holds the scale well.

The piece sits well with North Atlantic modern, cabin-minimalist, and quiet coastal-cabin rooms. The palette of slate, kelp green, and pewter sea moves with raw wood, wool, and unpainted iron.

The Anticosti palette — wet limestone, dark spruce, gulf grey — sits cleanly inside cabin-modern and Scandinavian-cabin rooms. A Small reads above a bunk shelf; a Large carries a fireplace wall.

A single Large is the standard piece above a sofa. A 4-tile Mural opens a wider wall; a 9-tile Mural carries a long lodge wall or a corridor behind a console table.

Yes, on the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both resist scratching and humidity and install well as a backsplash, on a vanity wall, or inside a shower surround.

A microfibre cloth and water. The colour lives inside the ceramic surface, so the tile cleans like a plate. Skip abrasive pads and ammonia-based sprays.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to the studio, curated by Reid Wender. We don't license outside imagery, and each place enters the atlas as a single, considered painting.

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