Swansea
— — the long curve of bay that opens toward the Gower.
Not only on a wall.
“A coastal city in South Wales at the mouth of the River Tawe. The bay sweeps in a long crescent from the docks out to Mumbles lighthouse and the Gower beyond. Dylan Thomas was born here in 1914 in a small house above Cwmdonkin Park. The covered market still holds laverbread and cockles on Saturday mornings.
Swansea, 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.
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.
The place, in three passes.
Swansea sits at the mouth of the River Tawe on the south coast of Wales, about forty miles west of Cardiff. The city wraps the eastern arc of Swansea Bay, which runs roughly five miles out to the village of Mumbles and Mumbles Head. The county has a population of around 240,000, making Swansea the second-largest city in Wales. The Gower Peninsula begins at its western edge and was designated the United Kingdom's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956. The city was heavily bombed in the Three Nights' Blitz of February 1941.
Swansea Bay opens into the Bristol Channel, which carries one of the largest tidal ranges in the world, around ten metres between high and low water on spring tides. The bay's long crescent runs from the river mouth to Mumbles Head, where Mumbles Pier and a lighthouse built in 1794 stand at its western end. The Mumbles foreshore reveals broad sand flats at low water. The Gower beaches at Llangennith and Rhossili draw surfers across all four seasons, and Three Cliffs Bay sits inside the AONB.
The Dylan Thomas Birthplace at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, in the Uplands neighbourhood, has been restored as a museum and reading room for the poet, born here in 1914. Swansea Market in the city centre is the largest covered market in Wales and still trades cockles, laverbread, and Welsh cakes from local suppliers. The Mumbles seafront runs about five miles by foot or bicycle from the city out to Oystermouth Castle, a thirteenth-century Norman ruin above the village. The National Waterfront Museum sits at the marina.