Palatine Hill

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.

Palatine Hill is the centermost of the seven hills of Rome, rising about forty metres above the Roman Forum on its north and the Circus Maximus on its south. It sits in the historic centre of the city, in the Lazio region, and is part of the Parco archeologico del Colosseo.

The hill's Latin name, Mons Palatinus, is the source of the English word palace. From Augustus onward the emperors built their official residences on the hill, and the Latin palatium came to mean any imperial dwelling. The word reached English through medieval French.

Roman tradition places the founding of the city by Romulus on the Palatine in 753 BC. Archaeologists have found Iron Age huts on the southwest corner of the hill dated to roughly that century, which is the basis for the claim that the Palatine is the city's oldest inhabited ground.

The visible remains are mostly imperial palaces: the House of Augustus and the House of Livia from the late first century BC, the Domus Tiberiana along the northern edge, Domitian's Flavian palace from around 92 AD, and the Severan extension over the Circus Maximus. The Stadium of Domitian sits between them.

The Orti Farnesiani are a Renaissance garden laid out in the 1550s for Cardinal Alessandro Farnese on top of the buried Domus Tiberiana. They are considered one of the first formal botanical gardens in Europe and still cover the northern crown of the hill in box hedges and stone pines.

Entry is by the standard archaeological park ticket, shared with the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. Most visitors enter through the Via di San Gregorio gate or up from the Forum along the Clivus Palatinus. The site is open daily, closing about an hour before sunset.

It's been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with ties to the city. The Palatine is the Rome behind the Rome, the imperial ground above the Forum, where the word palace comes from. A Coaster or a Small with a handwritten note from the studio travels well.

The amber and umber tones, the stained-glass line work, and the Roman pine silhouettes sit well in Old-World, Italianate, and Library-modern rooms. The palette also holds in a warm Maximalist scheme. Read it as a quiet anchor on a wall, not a feature piece.

Heritage-modern has been a steady direction in interior design since 2024: classical motifs reread through a contemporary palette, paired with linen and limewash. Pieces with a clear historical reference, like the Palatine, Versailles, or the Pantheon, anchor the look without leaning into pastiche.

The Large reads from across a room and sits well above a console table. Above a sofa, a 4-tile Mural carries the wall in a sitting room; a 9-tile Mural takes a dining room or a long entry. The Triptych is the option for a vertical column.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and built for vertical installation in steam or splash environments such as backsplashes, shower surrounds, and bath walls. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed wall pieces and dry rooms.

A soft microfibre cloth and warm water is the whole maintenance schedule. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and lives beneath a thin glossy finish, so no sealing, polishing, or special cleaner is needed.

Yes. Every WenderVista painting is original to the studio, made in our distinctive stained-glass alcohol-ink language and hand-finished in-house in Knoxville, Tennessee. We do not license images from third parties. The Palatine tile belongs to the studio's catalogue of places.