Wender·Vista
Bari
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileItaly
on the Adriatic coast of Puglia, on the heel of Italy

Bari

— — the port where Saint Nicholas came to rest.

— 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

“A working Adriatic port on the heel of Italy, with the old town of Bari Vecchia wrapped around the Basilica of San Nicola. The relics of Saint Nicholas have rested here since 1087, brought across the sea from Myra by Bari sailors. In the morning, women on Via Arco Basso fold orecchiette by hand on wooden boards in front of their doorways, the same way their grandmothers did.

from the studio
Bari
— bring it home

Bari, 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 Bari

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

Bari is the capital of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. The metropolitan area holds about 750,000 people, the second-largest city of the south after Naples. Its port is the busiest passenger harbour on the Italian Adriatic, with daily ferries to Albania, Croatia, Greece, and Montenegro. The city splits cleanly between Bari Vecchia, the old walled town on a peninsula, and the 19th-century grid of Borgo Murattiano, laid out under Joachim Murat in 1813.

— informed by Wikipedia — Bari
— the stone

The Basilica di San Nicola was begun in 1087 to hold the relics of Saint Nicholas, taken from Myra in Lycia by sixty-two Bari sailors that same year. It is one of the first and purest examples of Apulian Romanesque, a style that spread along the coast through the 12th century. A short walk away, the Cathedral of San Sabino, finished 1292, holds an 11th-century crypt and a rose window above its west front.

— the water

The Adriatic has shaped Bari since antiquity. The natural harbour, sheltered by the old town's peninsula, made the city a Byzantine, then Norman, then Aragonese port. Today the lungomare, Bari's seafront promenade, runs more than four kilometres along the water and counts as one of the longest in Italy. The colour of the sea here is the clean blue-green of the southern Adriatic, deepest in late afternoon when the light turns sideways across the limestone houses.

— where
Italy · Bari, Puglia
— elevation
5 m · 16 ft
— position
41.1171° N · 16.8719° 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.
35 km SE
Polignano a Mare
cliff town
55 km SE
Alberobello
trulli town
65 km W
Matera
cave city
N
Bari
Polignano a Mare
Alberobello
Matera
— common questions

What people ask.

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

Bari is the capital of Puglia, on the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. Its metropolitan area holds about 750,000 people, making it the second-largest city in the south after Naples.

In 1087, sixty-two Bari sailors brought the relics of Saint Nicholas across the Adriatic from Myra, in modern Turkey. The Basilica di San Nicola was begun the same year to house them and still draws Orthodox and Catholic pilgrims.

The old walled town on a peninsula between two harbours. Its narrow lanes hold the Basilica di San Nicola, the Cathedral of San Sabino, and the Norman-Swabian Castle, begun in 1131 and rebuilt under Frederick II in 1233.

A short lane in Bari Vecchia where local women shape orecchiette by hand on wooden boards in front of their houses each morning. The pasta, called little ears, has been the city's signature shape for centuries.

May, June, and September. Daytime temperatures sit in the mid-twenties Celsius and the lungomare is at its best in the long evenings. The Feast of Saint Nicholas, 7 to 9 May, is the year's largest celebration.

— about the piece in your home

It has carried well for customers with family in the south. The white houses and the basilica above the harbour are recognised at once by anyone with Pugliese roots. A Small or Coaster Set with a studio note sends warmly.

The piece sits well with Mediterranean-modern, Italian-Traditional, and Coastal-modern rooms. The limestone-white and Adriatic-blue palette holds against pale oak, terracotta tile, and natural linen; it also reads in a jewel-tone Maximalist setting.

Coastal-Italian has stayed strong. Limewash, lemon, brass, white linen, and ceramic are its through-line, and a Bari tile gives the room a specific Adriatic reference, away from the more photographed Amalfi coast.

A Large suits a console; above a sofa a 4-tile Mural is the usual choice; for a tall feature wall a 9-tile Mural carries the room. A Triptych also works above a sideboard.

Yes. Specify the Dura Satin or Matte finish for showers, backsplashes, and powder rooms. Both are scratch-resistant and the colour is held inside the surface, so steam and splashes do not affect it.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made by our studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, with no licensing or third-party stock. The Bari painting is part of Reid Wender's atlas of places.

— if this one stayed with you

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— a collection

The Italian Dolomites,
painted slow.

The valleys between Cortina and Val Gardena, the tarns you walk an hour to see, the towers that turn the colour of a banked fire just before dark. Wander the collection by valley, by season, or follow the path Reid walked.

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