Point Cabrillo Light

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.

Point Cabrillo Light sits on the Mendocino Coast in Mendocino County, California, about two miles north of Mendocino village and roughly halfway between Mendocino and Fort Bragg. The light station is part of a 300-acre California State Park preserve.

Construction of the light station began in 1908, and the lamp was first lit on June 10, 1909. The station was built in response to decades of shipwrecks along the Mendocino lumber coast, beginning with the 1850 loss of the clipper Frolic.

Yes. The third-order Fresnel lens, cut by Chance Brothers of Birmingham and shipped around Cape Horn in 1908, still turns in the tower. It is one of the few original third-order Fresnels operating in place on the United States West Coast.

The preserve grounds are open daily from sunrise to sunset, and the lighthouse interior is open most afternoons. There is no entry fee. The Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association runs the visitor centre, the museum cottages, and overnight rentals of the historic keepers' houses.

Yes. The lamp remains an active private aid to navigation under the Point Cabrillo Lightkeepers Association, in coordination with the United States Coast Guard. The Fresnel lens is electrified, and the beam is visible about 13 nautical miles offshore.

Gray whales pass close to the headland twice a year. The southbound migration runs roughly mid-December through February, and the northbound return runs March through May, with mothers and calves passing nearer the bluff in the spring.

It has been a meaningful gift for many customers with ties to Mendocino and Fort Bragg. The light station is a quiet landmark for people who walk the bluff or have stayed in the keepers' cottages. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The palette leans into sea-fog whites, headland greens, and the warm wood of the cottage. It sits comfortably with Coastal-modern, New England farmhouse, and Pacific Northwest interiors that already use unfinished wood and linen.

Coastal-modern has held its place in interior trend reports through several cycles, currently leaning toward quieter fog-and-driftwood palettes rather than primary blues. The Point Cabrillo piece reads as the quieter end of that family.

Above a standard sofa or a long console, the single Large reads at conversational distance, the four-tile Mural fills a wall above a sectional, and the nine-tile Mural takes the full space above a king bed or wide sideboard.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish, which is scratch-resistant and rated for vertical wet installations. The Glossy finish is reserved for framed wall pieces and show cases, away from steam and direct splash.

A soft microfibre cloth dampened with water is enough for routine cleaning. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and rests beneath a thin protective finish, so it will not lift or fade with gentle wiping.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is curated and hand-finished by Reid Wender at Wender Studios in Knoxville, Tennessee. The studio does not license, resell, or print other artists' work. Each ceramic tile is made one at a time in-house.