Trocadero Fountains

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.

The fountains run through the Jardins du Trocadéro in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, on the Chaillot hill directly across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. The Métro Trocadéro stop on lines 6 and 9 lets out at the top of the steps above the basin.

The whole site was rebuilt for the 1937 Exposition Internationale and designed by Roger-Henri Expert as a single axial vista with the Tower across the Seine. The twenty inclined water cannons in the central Warsaw Fountain are aimed deliberately toward it.

The Warsaw Fountain runs on a published seasonal schedule from spring through early autumn, in cycles through the day and evening. The system is shut off and the basin drained for the winter months to protect the stone and piping from frost damage.

The central basin was renamed Fontaine de Varsovie in 1968 to commemorate the friendship between Paris and Warsaw, a Franco-Polish gesture in the postwar decades. The new name replaced the original 1937 designation tied to the Exposition.

The square takes its name from the 1823 Battle of Trocadero, when French forces under the Duke of Angoulême captured Fort Trocadero in the Bay of Cádiz in Spain. The original Palais du Trocadéro was built for the 1878 World's Fair on the same hill.

The terrace above the fountains is the most widely cited free vantage in Paris for a head-on view of the Tower, with the basin and the Pont d'Iéna in the foreground. Photographers favor first light, when the Tower is lit from the east and the basin is still.

Walk down the central stairway through the Jardins du Trocadéro to the Pont d'Iéna, cross the bridge over the Seine, and you reach the foot of the Tower in about ten minutes. The path is paved and largely step-free across the bridge.

It has been a meaningful gift for our customers with Paris connections. The Trocadéro vantage is the view most Parisians know from childhood school trips and from the long walk down to the Pont d'Iéna. A Small or a Coaster Set with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The piece sits comfortably with Parisian-classic interiors, Jewel-tone Maximalist rooms, and Mountain-modern spaces that lean on stone and water palettes. The blue and gold notes in the Voynich treatment pick up gilt frames and warm wood as readily as cool grey plaster.

A single Large carries a sofa wall on its own. Above a long console or in a wide stairwell, a four-tile Mural lets the basin and the Tower spread the way the eye reads them in life. A nine-tile Mural is the right scale for a great room.

Yes, with the Dura Satin or Matte finish. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so steam and splash do not lift it. A microfibre cloth and water is the only cleaning needed.

A microfibre cloth and water is enough. Avoid ammonia, bleach, or abrasive pads, which can dull the surface finish over time. Wipe in the direction of the longer edge to keep any residue from settling along grout lines on a Mural.

Yes. Every WenderVista painting is by Reid Wender, the curator, and is hand-finished in our Knoxville studio. We do not license images or reuse stock art; the piece you receive comes from a single studio with one eye behind it.

It reads as both at once. The blue and gold of the Trocadéro vantage anchor a Parisian-classic room without going chintz, and the stained-glass density gives a Maximalist room a central object to build around. A Keepsake on a small easel works on a vanity or a bookshelf.