Camagüey

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.

Spanish settlers founded the city in 1514 as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, one of the seven original villas of Cuba. They moved the settlement twice in response to coastal raids and disease, finally settling at the present site in 1528.

Local tradition holds that the irregular plan was designed to disorient pirate raiders and slow attacks, which were a real threat through the 17th century. Historians debate the intent, but the layout stands apart from other Spanish colonial cities in the Americas.

Tinajones are large earthenware jars, often more than a metre tall, used to catch rainwater off tiled roofs and store it through the dry season. Camagüey has made them locally since the 17th century, and the jar has become the city's unofficial symbol.

UNESCO inscribed the historic centre of Camagüey as a World Heritage Site in 2008. The protected zone covers the old town's irregular plan and includes Plaza San Juan de Dios, Plaza del Carmen, and the cathedral, among other 18th- and 19th-century landmarks.

Camagüey is the birthplace of Ignacio Agramonte, a general of the Cuban War of Independence, and of the poet Nicolás Guillén, considered Cuba's national poet. Composer Carlos Puebla was born here too, and the ballet dancer Carlos Acosta trained in the city.

It carries warmly for someone from Camagüey or anywhere in central Cuba, and for a Cuban-American family in Miami or Tampa. A Medium for the wall or a Coaster Set for the kitchen reads as a piece of home.

The ochres and deep blues suit Tropical Colonial, Spanish Revival, and Maximalist rooms. It also sits well in a Boho or Latin-American Modern interior, against woven palm fibres and dark colonial wood.

A single Large above a console; a 4-tile Mural or 9-tile Mural above a sofa. The labyrinth of streets and tiled roofs holds its texture across a wider frame, so the Mural formats reward the subject.

Yes, in Dura Satin or Matte. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so humidity and splashes do not affect it. Glossy is fine for a powder room.

A microfibre cloth with water. No abrasives, no harsh cleaners. The colour rests beneath a thin glossy finish, and dust comes off in a single pass.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in-house in Knoxville, Tennessee, by Reid Wender and the studio. Nothing is licensed, nothing is resold. The Camagüey composition is the studio's own reading of the old town.