Wender·Vista
Ahmedabad
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileIndia
on the Sabarmati, in Gujarat

Ahmedabad

— — the old city the river kept.

— 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 walled old quarter sits along the Sabarmati, named India's first UNESCO World Heritage city in 2017. Pol houses lean into narrow lanes shaped by six centuries of cotton trade. South of the river, Sabarmati Ashram still holds the rooms where Gandhi planned the Salt March. The light in January, during Uttarayan, fills with kites.

from the studio
Ahmedabad
— bring it home

Ahmedabad, 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 Ahmedabad

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

Ahmedabad sits on the Sabarmati River in Gujarat, about 440 kilometres north of Mumbai. Founded in 1411 by Sultan Ahmad Shah I, its walled old city was inscribed by UNESCO in 2017 as India's first World Heritage city. The fortified core covers roughly 5.4 square kilometres and holds more than 600 pol, dense residential clusters built around shared courtyards and gated lanes. The Sabarmati Riverfront, completed in stages after 2012, reorganised eleven kilometres of bank into a continuous public promenade across both sides of the river.

— informed by Wikipedia, UNESCO
— the stone

The Jama Masjid, completed in 1424 under Ahmad Shah I, anchors the old city with 260 columns of yellow sandstone. A short walk north, the carved jali screens of Sidi Saiyyed Mosque (1573) cut a tree of life from a single stone slab. Outside town at Adalaj, the five-storey stepwell built by Queen Rudabai in 1499 descends through octagonal landings of pale sandstone, the air cooling with each level. The masonry across all three is trabeated, Indo-Islamic, and worked entirely in local stone.

— the year

Each January 14, Uttarayan turns the sky over Ahmedabad into a layered field of kites. The festival marks the sun's northward turn and draws competitive fliers to rooftops across the old city for two days of cut-string duels. The International Kite Festival, hosted by Gujarat Tourism since 1989, brings teams from more than 40 countries to the Sabarmati Riverfront. Manja string, undhiyu, and jalebi belong to the day as much as the kites themselves.

— informed by Gujarat Tourism
— where
India · Ahmedabad District, Gujarat
— elevation
53 m · 174 ft
— position
23.0225° N · 72.5714° 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.
2 km NW
Sabarmati Ashram
historic site
at the lake
Jama Masjid
mosque
1 km N
Sidi Saiyyed Mosque
mosque
18 km N
Adalaj Stepwell
stepwell
N
Ahmedabad
Sabarmati Ashram
Jama Masjid
Sidi Saiyyed Mosque
Adalaj Stepwell
— common questions

What people ask.

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

The walled core was named India's first UNESCO World Heritage city in 2017. It holds more than 600 pol, dense residential clusters of timber-fronted houses arranged around shared courtyards, gates, and water cisterns.

The ashram sits on the west bank of the Sabarmati, about three kilometres north of the old city. Gandhi lived there from 1917 to 1930 and left from its gate on the Salt March in March 1930.

Uttarayan falls on January 14 each year, marking the sun's northward turn. The International Kite Festival, run by Gujarat Tourism since 1989, draws teams from more than 40 countries to the Sabarmati Riverfront.

A pol is a self-contained residential cluster in Ahmedabad's old city, typically gated, built around shared courtyards and chabutaras (carved bird-feeders). Many pol date to the 17th and 18th centuries.

The stepwell was built in 1499 by Queen Rudabai of the Vaghela dynasty, eighteen kilometres north of the old city. It descends five storeys through octagonal landings carved in pale sandstone.

— about the piece in your home

It travels well to people who grew up in the old city or come back each January for Uttarayan. A Coaster or Small tile with a handwritten note from the studio carries the Sabarmati skyline at a quiet scale.

The warm sandstone palette suits Indo-modern, Jewel-tone Maximalist, and Earth-toned Minimalist rooms. It reads well against limewash walls, cane, teak, and brass hardware.

A single Large tile holds the centre of a standard six-foot sofa. For longer walls, a 4-tile Mural or 9-tile Mural in the same panel extends the composition without crowding the frame line above.

Yes. Order it in the Dura Satin or Matte finish; both are scratch-resistant and suited to vertical installations behind a sink or inside a shower surround. The colour lives inside the ceramic.

A microfibre cloth and water. The colour rests beneath a thin protective finish, so the surface tolerates regular wiping without losing tone or sheen over many years of daily use.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in the studio's own visual language by Reid Wender and hand-finished in Knoxville. Nothing in the line is licensed from another artist or stock library.

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