Pebble Beach
— — the wind keeps the cypress that shape.
Not only on a wall.
“The Monterey Peninsula, where the southern end of Monterey Bay turns into the long coastal hook above Carmel. Pebble Beach Golf Links opened in 1919 along this stretch of granite and white sand, the 7th and 18th holes hung directly over the Pacific. The Lone Cypress stands a mile up the coast on a small granite outcrop, shaped by perhaps two and a half centuries of prevailing wind off the water. Monterey cypress grows wild in only two places on Earth: here in Del Monte Forest and at Point Lobos a few miles south. The wind from the open ocean does most of the work.
Pebble Beach, 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.
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.
The place, in three passes.
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated community on California's Monterey Peninsula, in Monterey County, between Pacific Grove to the north and Carmel-by-the-Sea to the south. The 17-Mile Drive loops through Del Monte Forest along the coastline of the peninsula, passing the Lone Cypress, Bird Rock, Seal Rock, and the four Pebble Beach Company golf courses. Pebble Beach Golf Links itself opened on 22 February 1919 to a design by Jack Neville and Douglas Grant, two amateur Californians. The peninsula sits at the southern hook of Monterey Bay, about 120 miles south of San Francisco along Highway 1.
Monterey cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa) grows wild in only two places on Earth: Del Monte Forest at Pebble Beach and Point Lobos State Natural Reserve a few miles south across Carmel Bay. The trees are shaped by the prevailing west wind off the Pacific, which carries salt spray almost continuously across the headlands and prunes the branches into the asymmetric forms seen on the coast. The Lone Cypress on its granite outcrop along 17-Mile Drive is estimated at around 250 years old and has been a trademark of the Pebble Beach Company since the mid-twentieth century. Marine fog wraps the peninsula on most summer mornings before burning off by midday.
The Pebble Beach calendar runs around its tournaments. The AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, descended from Bing Crosby's clambake of 1937, is held each February, when winter storms can still send swells across the 18th green. The U.S. Open returns every seven to nine years and has been played at Pebble Beach in 1972, 1982, 1992, 2000, 2010, and 2019, with future championships scheduled for 2027, 2032, and 2037. Summer brings the heaviest tourist traffic on 17-Mile Drive, the paid scenic loop through Del Monte Forest that has charged at the gates since the 1880s.