Boston
— — a harbour that keeps the country's first chapters.
Not only on a wall.
“A port city on Massachusetts Bay where the Charles River meets the Atlantic. Cobbled lanes lift from the waterfront through the North End and up Beacon Hill. The gold dome of the State House catches the late sun above the Common. Brick row-houses and gas lamps hold their lines. A city that ran the first leg of the Revolution, photographed at the hour the bricks turn the colour of old rope under the harbour light.
Boston, 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.
Boston sits on Massachusetts Bay at the mouth of the Charles River, the capital and largest city of Massachusetts. Founded in 1630 by English Puritan colonists on the Shawmut Peninsula, it ranks among the oldest cities in the United States and covers roughly 232 square kilometres, with a population near six hundred and fifty thousand and a metropolitan area exceeding four and a half million. The city anchors New England's economy, education, and medicine, home to Harvard, MIT across the river in Cambridge, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Freedom Trail runs four kilometres through downtown, marked by a red brick line linking sixteen sites of the American Revolution: the Old State House from 1713, the Old North Church from 1723 where the lanterns were hung the night of Paul Revere's ride, Faneuil Hall, the Bunker Hill Monument, and others. Above the Common, the Massachusetts State House, completed in 1798 to a Charles Bulfinch design, carries a gilded copper dome resurfaced in twenty-three-karat gold leaf in 1997. Beacon Hill keeps the gas lamps lit.
New England's four seasons are sharp on the coast. Summers run warm and humid, with July highs near twenty-eight; winters cold, with January lows near minus six and roughly forty-three inches of snow most years. Spring comes late, with cherry and dogwood through the Public Garden in late April. The strongest season is autumn: peak foliage along the Charles and through the Common typically falls in the third week of October, and the harbour light through the long October afternoons is the light the city is most often painted in.