Mission Dolores

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.

Mission San Francisco de Asís was founded in 1776 by Father Francisco Palou, with the first mass on June 29 and formal dedication on October 9. It is the sixth of the twenty-one Spanish missions of Alta California.

The popular name comes from Laguna de los Dolores, a small lake of Our Lady of Sorrows that once stood near the site. The official name is Mission San Francisco de Asís, after St. Francis of Assisi.

Yes. The adobe chapel completed in 1791 is the oldest intact building in the city. Its four-foot adobe walls survived the 1906 earthquake while the brick Gothic Revival church next door collapsed.

The small adobe chapel, finished in 1791, is the original mission church. The much larger basilica beside it was completed in 1918 to replace an 1876 Gothic Revival church destroyed by the 1906 earthquake. Pope Pius XII designated it a minor basilica in 1952.

Yes. Alfred Hitchcock filmed scenes from his 1958 thriller Vertigo in the mission cemetery, where James Stewart's character follows Kim Novak among the headstones. The white camellias visible in the film still bloom there each winter.

It stands at the corner of 16th and Dolores Streets in San Francisco's Mission District, the neighborhood that takes its name from the mission. The nearest BART stop is 16th Street Mission, two blocks east of the chapel.

Yes. The mission cemetery holds the remains of an estimated 5,000 Ohlone and other Indigenous people who died during the mission period, mostly of European-introduced diseases. A monument and statue in the cemetery garden honor them.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers from the Bay Area. Mission Dolores is the place San Francisco grew out of, and the adobe chapel and cemetery sit in the memory of anyone who has lived in the Mission District. A Small or Medium carries well with a handwritten note from the studio.

The painted-glass treatment and warm adobe palette sit easily in Spanish Revival, California Craftsman, and Mission-modern interiors. It also reads well against plain white plaster, dark wood, and the muted earth tones favored by California Casual rooms.

Yes. The terracotta, cream, and saturated blue palette of this tile sits inside the California-modern and Spanish Revival movement that has come back strongly in West Coast interiors. It works particularly well as a single anchor piece above a fireplace or sideboard.

A single Large reads well above most consoles. Above a standard 84-inch sofa, a four-tile Mural or a nine-tile Mural carries the wall properly. The Medium and Coaster Set work better on a desk or open shelf where the eye is closer.

Yes. We offer the same artwork in Dura Satin and Matte finishes for high-moisture rooms like kitchens, bathrooms, showers, and backsplashes. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so it does not lift or fade.

A soft microfibre cloth with water is enough for most days. For a kitchen tile that catches cooking spatter, a drop of mild dish soap in warm water and the same cloth. Avoid abrasive pads and bleach-based cleaners.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to our studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. We do not licence other artists' work. Reid Wender, the studio's curator, chooses each place in the atlas and oversees each painting.