Salton Sea

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 current sea formed between 1905 and 1907, when a poorly engineered diversion of the Colorado River into the Imperial Valley broke loose during a flood and the river ran into the Salton Sink for almost two years before engineers closed the breach. The basin has held water on and off for thousands of years.

The Salton Sink sits about 236 feet below sea level, the second-lowest point in the United States after Death Valley. It is part of the Salton Trough, a structural depression formed by the same tectonic activity that opened the Gulf of California to the south.

Yes. Inflows have dropped as Imperial Valley agriculture has shifted to more efficient irrigation and as Colorado River allocations have tightened. The shoreline has receded each year since the 1990s, and salinity has roughly doubled in that time.

The sea is a major stop on the Pacific Flyway and hosts hundreds of bird species over the year. The Sonny Bono Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1930, protects the south end, where eared grebes, American white pelicans, and snow geese show up in winter in large numbers.

There is no rule against it, but most visitors do not. The water is hypersaline, the shoreline is largely made of fish bones and dried barnacles, and summer surface temperatures climb above 90°F. The sea is more interesting to look at than to swim in.

An outsider art event held each March on the abandoned lakefront streets of Bombay Beach, on the east shore. It began in the mid-2010s, and the artists keep installations standing all year in the empty trailers and yards.

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers who know the Salton Sink. The colour treatment lands strongest with people who have driven the south shore in winter, or watched the sun go down at Bombay Beach. A Medium with a handwritten studio note carries well as a housewarming, and a Keepsake works as a smaller token.

The desert-pink palette sits well in Desert Modern, Southwestern, and washed-coastal interiors. It also works as a single contrast piece in a Mid-Century Modern room where the rest of the palette is restrained.

Yes. Desert Modern has held since the late 2010s and continues to read clean against terracotta tile, oak, and Saltillo. The Salton Sea tile, with its salt-pink horizon, complements the palette without competing with it.

The Large works over a console or a reading chair. Over a standard 84-inch sofa, the 4-tile Mural carries the wall; over a wider sectional, the 9-tile Mural is the format that fills the visual field.

Yes. Specify Dura Satin or Matte at checkout for vertical wet locations. Glossy is the right finish for framed wall art in a dry room and is the default if no finish is selected.

A soft microfibre cloth with plain water handles the work. No solvents, no abrasive pads. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface and lives in the surface itself, so it does not wear off the way a printed image would.

Yes. Every WenderVista painting is made by Reid Wender in his Knoxville studio and is not licensed from any other source. The Salton Sea tile carries the same hand and visual signature as the rest of the atlas.