Wender·Vista
Acre
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileIsrael
on the northern coast, across the bay from Haifa

Acre

— — a port that has changed hands and kept its stone.

— 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

“Acre sits on a small headland north of Haifa, where the sea wall holds against a long Mediterranean swell. The old city is mostly Ottoman above and Crusader below — a Hospitaller fortress buried under centuries of Mamluk and Turkish building. The khans by the port still smell of cardamom and fish. From the ramparts at dusk the bay turns slate-green, and the muezzin and the church bell answer each other across the water.

from the studio
Acre
— bring it home

Acre, 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 Acre

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

Acre, known in Hebrew as Akko and in Arabic as Akka, sits on a small headland on the northern shore of the Bay of Haifa, about fourteen kilometres north of Haifa itself. The site has been continuously inhabited for at least four thousand years, with Bronze Age strata at Tel Akko just east of the old city. The modern population is roughly 50,000, mixed Jewish and Arab. The old city was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001 for the unusual preservation of its medieval Crusader town beneath an intact Ottoman walled city.

— the stone

Acre fell to the Crusaders in 1104 and became, after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187, the capital of the Latin Kingdom for almost a century. The Knights Hospitaller built a vast complex beneath what is now the Ottoman old city — refectories, dormitories, and an enormous vaulted hall, all preserved largely because the Mamluks filled them with rubble after the siege of 1291 and the Ottomans built directly on top. The most prominent later building is the Al-Jazzar Mosque, completed in 1781 under Pasha Ahmad al-Jazzar, with its pale green dome above the old market.

— the air

Acre still works as a port. Small fishing boats put out from the harbour every morning and tie up along the southern wall in the late afternoon, and the khans inland — Khan al-Umdan with its clock tower, Khan al-Shawarda, Khan al-Faranj — still hold a working market for fish, spice, and produce. The city is mixed Jewish and Arab in a way unusual even by Israeli standards, with shared neighbourhoods running back from the port. At dusk from the sea wall, with the muezzin from Al-Jazzar and the bells from St John, the harbour holds both at once.

— where
Israel · Acre, Northern District
— elevation
10 m · 33 ft
— position
32.9281° N · 35.0820° 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.
14 km S
Haifa
port city
20 km N
Rosh HaNikra
sea grottoes
N
Acre
Haifa
Rosh HaNikra
— common questions

What people ask.

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

Acre sits on a small headland on the northern shore of the Bay of Haifa in Israel's Northern District, about fourteen kilometres north of Haifa itself. The population is roughly 50,000.

Acre has been continuously inhabited for at least four thousand years. Bronze Age strata at Tel Akko, just east of the old city, push the earliest settlement back into the third millennium BC.

It is the vast Crusader-era complex of the Knights Hospitaller, built in the twelfth century and preserved beneath the Ottoman old city after the Mamluks filled it with rubble following the siege of 1291.

The old city was inscribed in 2001 for the rare preservation of an intact medieval Crusader town beneath a largely intact Ottoman walled city — the two layers exist together in almost no other Mediterranean port.

It is the principal Ottoman mosque of the old city, completed in 1781 under Pasha Ahmad al-Jazzar. Its pale green dome rises above the market and is the tallest landmark of the walled town.

Yes, on a small scale. Fishing boats put out every morning and the harbour still anchors a working market in the historic khans, including Khan al-Umdan with its Ottoman clock tower.

— about the piece in your home

It has been a meaningful gift for customers from both communities of the city. Acre is held closely by its residents, and a Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The slate-green, sandstone, and pale gold palette suits Mediterranean-modern, Levantine, and warm coastal rooms. It also sits comfortably against limewashed walls and aged brass.

It fits the current Mediterranean-revival and coastal-heritage directions, and the broader move toward old-port palettes in interiors — weathered stone, salt-bleached wood, deep harbour green.

Above a standard sofa or console, a single Large reads as a focal point. For a wider wall a 4-tile Mural carries the composition across the full span, and a 9-tile Mural becomes the wall itself.

Yes. Choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish for any vertical install near steam or water. Both are scratch-resistant and hold up to daily wiping without loss of colour.

A soft microfibre cloth and clean water. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and lives in the surface itself, so it cannot be wiped off.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to the studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. There is no licensing in or out — Reid Wender curates the atlas, and the work is hand-finished in-house.

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