Mariposa California

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.

Mariposa is a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills of central California, the county seat of Mariposa County. It sits at about 1,949 feet of elevation on State Route 140, roughly 30 miles west of the Arch Rock Entrance to Yosemite National Park.

Mariposa is the Spanish word for butterfly. The name was recorded in 1806 by Gabriel Moraga's Spanish expedition through these foothills, where his party encountered thick clouds of overwintering butterflies along a creek they named Las Mariposas. The name later attached to the county and the town.

The Mariposa County Courthouse, completed in 1854, is the oldest courthouse in continuous use west of the Mississippi River. Built of white pine with mortise-and-tenon joinery and wooden pegs, it still hears cases today and keeps time on a Seth Thomas tower clock added in 1866.

From Mariposa, drive east on State Route 140 for about 30 miles to the Arch Rock Entrance. Highway 140 is the lowest of the three western park approaches and is generally kept open through winter, following the Merced River canyon the whole way.

Mariposa was established around 1850 during the California Gold Rush on John C. Frémont's Las Mariposas land grant, one of the southernmost camps in the Mother Lode. It became the seat of Mariposa County when California joined the Union that same year.

The historic district centres on Bullion Street, with the 1854 county courthouse, several Gold Rush-era storefronts, and the California State Mining and Mineral Museum. The museum holds the 13.8-pound Fricot Nugget, one of the largest surviving pieces of crystalline gold from the California Gold Rush.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers with roots in the Sierra foothills or with memories of family trips to Yosemite. Mariposa is the western gateway, and the county courthouse anchors the town's identity. A Coaster or Small with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The foothill golds and stained-glass blues of this piece pair with Mountain-modern, Western farmhouse, and Cabin-modern interiors. The warm palette also reads well in National Parks-themed rooms where the colour set already runs toward umber, river-blue, and granite-grey.

Yes. The National Parks aesthetic, with its WPA poster lineage and warm-and-earthy palette, has stayed prominent in cabin and lodge interiors for the last decade. The Mariposa tile reads as a Yosemite-gateway piece without leaning on the granite cliffs that everyone has already framed.

A single Large makes the right anchor above a console or a smaller sofa. Over a full-length sofa, a 4-tile Mural or 9-tile Mural reads at scale and lets the foothill colour stretch across the wall. The Medium suits a narrower runner table or hallway.

Yes. For wet rooms and backsplashes we recommend the Dura Satin or Matte finish, both scratch-resistant and easy to wipe down. The Glossy finish is intended for framed wall art and display surfaces rather than splash zones.

A microfibre cloth with plain water is enough. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and lives beneath a thin glossy finish, so it does not chip or fade with normal household cleaning. Avoid abrasive scrubbers.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original studio work, curated by Reid Wender and finished in-house in Knoxville, Tennessee. We do not licence imagery from third parties; the atlas of places is ours.