Cortina d'Ampezzo

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.

Cortina sits at 1,224 metres in the Ampezzo valley, in the Province of Belluno in Italy's Veneto region. The Boite river runs through the centre, and pale Dolomite peaks like the Tofane and Cristallo ring the town on every side.

The name comes from its setting and its long standing as the leading Dolomite resort. A single valley town is ringed by major groups: the Tofane, Cristallo, Sorapiss, Pomagagnon and Cinque Torri. It hosted the 1956 Winter Olympics, the first carried on television.

Yes, twice. It held the 1956 Winter Games, the first Olympics broadcast on television, and co-hosted the 2026 Winter Olympics with Milan. The 2026 Games reused and restored the 1956 venues rather than building new ones.

They are Dolomite, a pale carbonate rock named after the 18th-century French geologist Déodat de Dolomieu. The range became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2009. The highest peak above the town, Tofana di Mezzo, reaches 3,244 metres.

The effect is called enrosadira, a Ladin word for 'turning pink'. At dawn and dusk, low-angle red sunlight reflects off the pale carbonate rock, so the peaks glow rose then violet for ten or fifteen minutes after the valley is dark.

Two seasons. December to March for skiing the surrounding slopes, and June to September for hiking the trails and mountain refuges. The enrosadira shows at dawn and dusk in any season when the sky is clear.

By road. The nearest airports are Venice, about 160 kilometres south, and Treviso. There is no longer a passenger railway to the town; the line from Calalzo to Dobbiaco closed in 1964, so the final approach is the valley road up the Boite.

It has carried well for people with ties to Cortina and to alpine Italy. The pale peaks and the rose evening light read at once to anyone who has skied here or hiked the Tofane. A Small or Medium with a note from the studio travels well.

The rose-and-violet light against pale rock sits well in alpine-modern and mountain-modern rooms, and the jewel-tone depth of the stained-glass treatment holds its own in a warmer, maximalist space. It works beside wood and stone rather than against them.

Yes. Alpine-modern and mountain-lodge interiors lean on exactly this palette: pale stone, warm wood, and a single deep accent of colour. The Cortina tile gives that accent without a loud frame. A Medium or Large anchors the wall on its own.

Above a sofa, a single Large reads from across the room, or a four-tile Mural for a wider wall. Above a console or a narrow entry, a Medium holds the space, and a Triptych runs well across a horizontal stretch. A nine-tile Mural suits a stairwell.

Yes. For a backsplash, a shower wall, or any damp or vertical setting, choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish, which is scratch-resistant and holds up to moisture. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface, so it will not lift or fade.

A soft microfibre cloth and water. Nothing abrasive and no solvents. The colour lives in the surface beneath a thin glossy finish, so wiping it down never touches the image itself.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is made in our Knoxville studio in our own stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language, hand-finished in-house. There is no licensing and no stock imagery; the Cortina painting exists only as a Wender Studios piece.