Wender·Vista
Stuttgart
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileGermany
in a bowl of vineyard hills in southwest Germany

Stuttgart

— — the city built inside its own valley.

— 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

“Stuttgart sits in a steep bowl of hillsides in Baden-Württemberg, with vineyards that climb right into the city, a rarity among European capitals of any size. It is the home of the Daimler and Porsche works, and a string of small wine-growers whose grandparents pruned the same Trollinger slopes. The Schlossplatz holds the centre; the Fernsehturm holds the skyline. The city does its best work at dusk, when the hill-lights come on slowly from the bottom up.

from the studio
Stuttgart
— bring it home

Stuttgart, 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 Stuttgart

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

Stuttgart is the capital of Baden-Württemberg and the sixth-largest city in Germany, with roughly 630,000 residents in the city proper and 2.8 million across the metropolitan region. It sits in a deep bowl carved by the Neckar River and its tributaries, ringed by hills that rise about 250 metres above the valley floor. The geography is the city's defining trait. It makes Stuttgart one of the few major European cities with active vineyards inside its administrative borders, including the slopes that overlook the centre.

— informed by Wikipedia: Stuttgart
— the stone

Mercedes-Benz and Porsche both founded and still headquarter their works in the Stuttgart area, in Untertürkheim and Zuffenhausen respectively. Gottlieb Daimler built his first internal-combustion engine in a Cannstatt workshop in 1885. The two museum buildings, the Mercedes-Benz Museum opened in 2006 and the Porsche Museum in 2009, sit at opposite ends of the city and are themselves architectural pieces: the Mercedes ring designed by UNStudio, the Porsche prism by Delugan Meissl. Together they shape the city's identity as much as the wine slopes.

— the visit

The city centre arranges itself around the Schlossplatz, framed by the New Palace, the Königsbau, and the Königstraße shopping spine. The Staatsgalerie, expanded by James Stirling in 1984, holds the major painting collection. The Fernsehturm on the Hoher Bopser was the world's first concrete television tower when it opened in 1956, and remains the model for every concrete broadcast tower built since. Cannstatter Wasen, the city's autumn folk festival on the Neckar floodplain, draws around four million visitors over its three-week run each September.

— where
Germany · Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
— elevation
245 m · 804 ft
— position
48.7758° N · 9.1829° 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.
at the lake
Schlossplatz
city square
3 km S
Fernsehturm
broadcast tower
4 km E
Mercedes-Benz Museum
museum
6 km N
Porsche Museum
museum
3 km NE
Bad Cannstatt
spa district
N
Stuttgart
Schlossplatz
Fernsehturm
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Porsche Museum
Bad Cannstatt
— common questions

What people ask.

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

Stuttgart lies in Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, in a steep bowl carved by the Neckar River. It is the sixth-largest city in the country, with roughly 630,000 residents.

The Stuttgart basin's south-facing slopes have been planted to vine since the Middle Ages. The city expanded around them rather than over them, so working vineyards still sit inside the administrative borders.

Stuttgart is the home of Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, both founded and still headquartered in its districts. It is also a wine city, an opera city, and the capital of Baden-Württemberg.

The Stuttgart Fernsehturm opened in 1956 as the world's first reinforced-concrete television tower. Its slender form became the model for every concrete broadcast tower built afterward, from Munich to Toronto.

The Wasen runs for three weeks from late September into early October on the Neckar floodplain in Bad Cannstatt. It draws around four million visitors a year, second only to Munich's Oktoberfest.

The Neckar runs along the eastern edge of the city through the Bad Cannstatt district. The city centre itself sits in a side-valley carved by the smaller Nesenbach, now culverted underground.

— about the piece in your home

Yes. The city carries deep loyalty among engineers, automotive workers, and the diaspora of Württemberger families. A Small or Medium with a card from the studio suits a leaving party or a homecoming.

The vine-slope-and-sandstone palette sits well in European Modern, Bauhaus-Adjacent, and Warm Industrial rooms. The piece pairs with steel, oak, and the muted greens characteristic of southern German design.

Yes. The current return to Bauhaus restraint and German Modern colour fields has put Württemberg cities back on the mood-board. A Stuttgart tile carries that lineage without quoting it.

A single Large reads well above a console. Above a sofa, a four-tile Mural carries the wall; a nine-tile Mural holds a longer dining or great-room wall.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and unaffected by heat and steam, which suits them to backsplashes and the wall behind a stove.

A microfibre cloth with water is enough. The colour lives inside the ceramic surface rather than in a coating, so the finish does not wear under normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista tile is painted by Reid Wender in the studio's stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language. The work is not licensed and not reproduced from any outside source.

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