Lombok Island
— — the quieter island the volcano made.
Not only on a wall.
“Bali's neighbour to the east, separated by a narrow strait that runs deep enough to mark one of the great biogeographic lines of the world. Lombok is the home island of the Sasak people and the country of Mount Rinjani, the volcano whose crater lake holds the weather of the south. The south coast is white sand and turquoise water; the inland villages still weave by hand. The pace is slower than Bali, and the silence under the palms after the call to prayer is something you remember. from the studio
Lombok Island, 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.
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.
The place, in three passes.
Lombok is an island in the Lesser Sunda chain of Indonesia, just east of Bali across the Lombok Strait. It covers roughly 4,738 square kilometres and forms the western half of West Nusa Tenggara province, with the city of Mataram as its administrative centre. The Wallace Line, the biogeographic boundary identified by Alfred Russel Wallace, runs through the strait between Bali and Lombok and divides Asian from Australasian fauna. The island is dominated by Mount Rinjani, a 3,726-metre stratovolcano that is the second-highest volcano in Indonesia and the centre of a national park.
Rinjani is the weather-maker of the island. The summit holds Segara Anak, a crescent-shaped crater lake about six kilometres long that sits at 2,000 metres above sea level, with the smaller cone of Mount Barujari rising from inside the caldera. The volcano last erupted in 2016 from Barujari, and the trail network is closed when activity rises. The classic ascent from Senaru takes two to three days and crosses pine forest, alpine grass, and bare scree before reaching the rim above the lake at dawn.
Most visitors reach Lombok by air into Lombok International Airport near Praya in the south, or by fast boat from Padang Bai in Bali across the strait. The south coast around Kuta Lombok and Tanjung Aan is the surf and beach region; the Gili Islands off the northwest coast are reached by short boat. Rinjani treks run roughly April to December, outside the heaviest rains, and a national park permit is required. Lombok is a majority-Muslim island, and modest dress is appreciated away from the main tourist beaches.