Villa Ephrussi Gardens

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.

On the highest point of the Cap Ferrat peninsula, about 10 kilometres east of Nice on the French Riviera. The villa sits on a narrow ridge with the Bay of Villefranche to the west and the Bay of Beaulieu to the east. The nearest village is Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.

The villa was commissioned by Baroness Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild, a French banking heiress, and built between 1905 and 1912. She designed the gardens herself and named the property Île-de-France after a ship, with the central French garden laid out to evoke a ship's deck.

Nine themed gardens: French, Spanish, Florentine, Stone (Lapidaire), Japanese, Exotic, Rose, Provençal, and Sèvres. Each was designed as a distinct landscape, with the French garden at the centre. The whole estate covers about seven hectares above the Mediterranean.

The fountains in the central French garden play on a twenty-minute cycle throughout the day the villa is open. The pools are arranged along the central axis of the garden, in front of the villa's western façade. The music carries across the lawn.

The Académie des Beaux-Arts, part of the Institut de France, owns and operates the villa. Baroness Ephrussi de Rothschild bequeathed it to the academy in her will when she died in 1934. The estate is run as a public museum and garden.

Late April through June, when the rose garden and the Provençal garden are at peak bloom and the Côte d'Azur weather is mild. The site closes early or shuts entirely in mid-winter. The view across the two bays is sharpest after a passing rain.

Yes. Villa Ephrussi is one of the most beloved estates on the Côte d'Azur, familiar to anyone who has spent time around Cap Ferrat, Nice, or Monaco. A Medium tile in the Glossy finish reads well in a frame for a recipient who once lived or summered along that coast.

The pink stone of the villa and the deep greens of the formal gardens carry the piece into French country, Mediterranean modern, and traditional European interiors. It also sits comfortably in jewel-tone maximalist rooms, where the rose and emerald notes have room to read.

Yes. The colour palette of a Côte d'Azur garden is one of the steady through-lines of Mediterranean modern design: pink stucco, cypress green, silvery olive, pool blue. The tile pulls those notes together in a single piece that anchors a wall without crowding it.

For a sofa, the single Large reads from across a room. For a wider statement, a 4-tile Mural extends the gardens across the wall, and a 9-tile Mural gives the full sweep with the villa visible at scale. Above a console, the Medium is the most common choice.

Yes, with the Dura Satin or Matte finish, which resist steam and splashing while keeping the surface scratch-resistant. The Glossy finish is for framed wall art away from the splash zone. Tiles in any finish are wiped clean with a microfibre cloth and water.

A dry or barely damp microfibre cloth is all the surface needs. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it lives in the stone rather than on top of it. No cleaners or polishes are needed, and none are recommended.

Yes. Every piece in the WenderVista atlas is original to the studio, painted in our stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language. We do not licence outside imagery. Each tile is hand-finished in our Knoxville workshop and signed on the back.