Wender·Vista
Suez
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileEgypt
at the southern mouth of the Suez Canal

Suez

— the city the ships pass through.

— 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

“The Egyptian port at the southern mouth of the Suez Canal, where the desert meets the Red Sea. Ships gather in the Gulf each evening for the northbound convoy that began carrying world trade in 1869. The city itself is dust, heat, low minarets, and the steady horn of vessels easing into the Bitter Lakes.

from the studio
Suez
— bring it home

Suez, 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 Suez

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

Suez stands at the northern head of the Gulf of Suez and the southern terminus of the Suez Canal, on Egypt's northeastern coast roughly 130 kilometres east of Cairo. The canal opened in November 1869 under Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal Company, cutting a 193-kilometre channel that shortened the sea route between Europe and Asia by about 7,000 kilometres. The modern governorate of Suez surrounds the city with about three-quarters of a million residents working ports, refineries, and the canal's southern locks at Port Tewfik.

— informed by Wikipedia, Wikipedia
— the water

The Red Sea at this latitude runs warm and saline, sliding into the artificial cut of the canal at Port Tewfik. Tankers and container ships queue offshore in the Gulf each night for the southbound or northbound convoy; on a typical day in 2023 the canal handled close to 70 vessels and roughly twelve percent of global seaborne trade. The Bitter Lakes, halfway up the cut, let ships pass; the desert on either side stays still while the water moves the world's freight.

— the visit

Travellers reach Suez most often by road or rail from Cairo, a two-hour drive along the Cairo-Suez highway. The Port Tewfik corniche looks south onto the Gulf and the canal mouth, with the new Suez Canal Bridge, completed in 2001 and one of the tallest cable-stayed bridges in the world at 154 metres of clearance, visible to the north. Summer temperatures regularly pass 35°C; winter days are warm and the light off the Gulf is the long, low Mediterranean kind.

— informed by Wikipedia, Wikipedia
— where
Egypt · Suez, Suez Governorate
— position
29.9737° N · 32.5263° 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.
3 km S
Port Tewfik
harbour district
1 km N
Suez Canal
canal
2 km S
Gulf of Suez
gulf
90 km N
Ismailia
city
130 km W
Cairo
capital city
N
Suez
Port Tewfik
Suez Canal
Gulf of Suez
Ismailia
Cairo
— common questions

What people ask.

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

It sits at the southern entrance of the Suez Canal, the shortest sea route between Europe and Asia. Roughly twelve percent of global seaborne trade passes through the canal, much of it transiting the Gulf of Suez offshore from the city.

The canal opened on 17 November 1869 after a decade of construction under Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal Company. It was nationalised by Egypt in 1956 under Gamal Abdel Nasser, prompting the brief Suez Crisis.

The Suez Canal runs 193.3 kilometres from Port Said on the Mediterranean to Port Tewfik at Suez on the Red Sea. A 2015 expansion added a parallel 35-kilometre channel that allows two-way transit through part of the route.

Port Tewfik, also rendered Port Tawfiq, is the southern terminus of the canal, the harbour district of Suez where pilots board and ships enter or exit the cut. It is named for Khedive Tewfik Pasha, who ruled Egypt in the 1880s.

About 130 kilometres east of Cairo by road, a two-hour drive along the Cairo-Suez highway. Rail and shared-taxi services run regularly between the two cities, and the Cairo Metro is gradually extending eastward.

Hot desert. Summer highs commonly exceed 35°C with low humidity at the coast; winter days are mild and dry, with light occasional rain. The Gulf moderates the worst of the inland heat through evening sea breeze.

— about the piece in your home

Suez carries weight for both. The city sits in Egyptian memory through 1869, 1956, and 1967, and in seafaring memory through every Red Sea convoy. A Medium or Large works on a wall; a Coaster Set sits well on a desk.

The desert ochres, Red Sea blues, and refinery sodium hues of the Suez palette pair with warm minimalist, coastal-Mediterranean, and industrial-modern rooms. A single Large above a long shelf reads well; a four-tile Mural carries a hallway.

The working-port aesthetic, cranes, hulls, low horizons, has moved into industrial-modern and loft conversations. A Large grounds a room built around steel, leather, and aged wood without leaning kitsch.

Above a sofa, a single Large or a four-tile Mural fills the space. Above a console, a Medium centred or a Triptych spread across the width works in most rooms with the canal on the horizontal axis.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for those rooms, both scratch-resistant and engineered for vertical installation in humid spaces. The glossy finish belongs on framed pieces away from steam.

Microfibre cloth and water. Skip abrasive pads and any household cleaner with acid or bleach; the colour lives in the ceramic, but the surface finish prefers gentle care.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made in our Knoxville studio under Reid Wender's eye. Nothing is licensed from a third party, and no two pieces of the same place ship without his approval.

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