Place du Tertre

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.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

Place du Tertre is at the top of the Montmartre hill in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, about a hundred metres west of Sacré-Cœur Basilica. The square sits at roughly 130 metres, the highest elevation in the city.

Place du Tertre has been an artists' square since the Bohemian period of the late 1800s, when Picasso, Modigliani, Utrillo, and Toulouse-Lautrec lived in Montmartre. The Mairie of the 18th arrondissement licenses about 140 painters and caricaturists to work the square today.

Place du Tertre was laid out in 1635, when Montmartre was still a village outside Paris. Its name comes from tertre, the old French word for a small hill or knoll. The square took its modern shape after Montmartre was annexed to Paris in 1860.

Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, consecrated in 1147, is one of the four oldest churches in Paris. Inside its nave are four marble columns reused from a Roman temple to Mars that once stood on the hill. Its small cemetery opens to the public only on November 1st.

Painters set up around nine in the morning, and the square fills between ten and noon. Early mornings are quieter, and the hour before sunset has the best light on the western facades. The square is open in every season; nothing is gated.

Picasso lived at the Bateau-Lavoir on Rue Ravignan, about three minutes down the hill from Place du Tertre, between 1904 and 1909. He painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon there in 1907. He drank at La Mère Catherine and at the Lapin Agile, both still serving.

Entry to the square is free and open all hours. Sitting for a portrait runs roughly 30 to 80 euros depending on size and medium. Restaurants on the square take walk-ins for lunch, though tables are tight on weekends.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with ties to the city. Place du Tertre is the Paris of art students, of long lunches at Mère Catherine, of the climb up from Anvers. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The piece reads as warm jewel-tone, with saturated colour set in dark leading. It sits well in Parisian-classical, Maximalist, and Old-World-modern rooms. It also works as the warm anchor in a mostly-neutral apartment where one piece carries the colour.

Parisian-classical and Old-World maximalism are both in a steady cycle through 2026. The stained-glass treatment reads as turn-of-the-century without being literal, which suits how interior editors are dressing rooms this year.

Above a standard sofa, a single Large reads cleanly, and a 4-tile Mural fills the wall to the eye. A 9-tile Mural is the move for a long sofa or a dining-room wall. Above a console, the Medium sits at the right scale.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and hold up to the moisture and temperature swings of a bathroom or kitchen wall. The Glossy finish is for dry-wall display.

A soft microfibre cloth and water. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it does not lift, scratch off, or fade with cleaning. No abrasive sponges, no harsh sprays.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in the studio's own visual language: a stained-glass leading layered over alcohol-ink colour and a textured oil ground. The work is not licensed from anywhere and does not appear anywhere else.