Kinsale

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.

Kinsale is a small harbour town in County Cork, on the southern coast of Ireland, about 25 kilometres south of Cork city at the mouth of the River Bandon. The town sits at the head of a sheltered tidal estuary that opens to the Celtic Sea.

For its painted harbour-front houses, its food culture (Kinsale hosts a long-running Gourmet Festival each October), its two 17th-century forts guarding the harbour mouth, and as the southern starting point of the Wild Atlantic Way coastal route.

A long limestone promontory roughly ten to twelve kilometres south of the town, ending in a working lighthouse. The RMS Lusitania was torpedoed about eleven nautical miles off the Old Head on 7 May 1915, with the loss of 1,198 lives. A signal tower museum on the headland tells the story.

A star-shaped bastion fortress built between 1677 and 1682 by Sir William Robinson on the eastern side of Kinsale Harbour. It is regarded as one of the best preserved 17th-century military works in Europe and is run as a heritage site by the Office of Public Works.

Yes. Kinsale is the southern terminus of the Wild Atlantic Way, a signed coastal driving route of roughly 2,500 kilometres that runs from here north along the Atlantic seaboard to Inishowen Head in County Donegal.

In late 1601, a Spanish expeditionary force landed at Kinsale to support the Irish Gaelic lords against English rule. After a winter siege, an English army defeated the combined Irish and Spanish forces in January 1602. The defeat marked the end of the old Gaelic order in Ireland.

About 25 kilometres by road. The most scenic approach is the R600 along the harbour shore from Cork city, which takes around 40 minutes by car. The closest international airport is Cork Airport, roughly 20 kilometres to the north.

It carries that recognition well. The painted harbour-front, Charles Fort across the water, and the steep streets rising back from the quay read as Kinsale even from across a room. A Keepsake or Small with a handwritten note from the studio sends well to a relative abroad.

The piece suits coastal-modern, country-cottage, and jewel-tone maximalist rooms. The saturated colour of the harbour-front and the dark stonework give it more weight than a typical seaside print, so it holds its own in a room with deep wall colour or oak panelling.

It fits the warmer, less bleached current of coastal-modern that has come back into favour: real working harbours rather than white-sand resort coastlines. The stained-glass colour language puts it closer to the European-coastal end of the trend than the Cape-Cod end.

For a standard three-seat sofa or a six-foot console, a single Large reads well from across the room. For a longer wall or a statement install, a 4-tile Mural fills the space; a 9-tile Mural carries an entryway or a stairwell wall.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for wet-room and splash-zone installs such as showers, backsplashes, and walls behind the range. The Glossy finish is for framed wall art in dry rooms. The colour lives in the ceramic surface itself, so it does not lift or fade with steam.

A soft microfibre cloth and water are enough for the Glossy finish. For Dura Satin and Matte tiles in kitchens or bathrooms, the same cloth with a mild pH-neutral cleaner is fine. Avoid abrasive pads and bleach-based scrubs, which can dull the surface over time.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to Reid Wender and the studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. Nothing is licensed in. Each design is made for one place and held in the studio's atlas of vistas.