Brown Palace Denver Denver Metro Ceramic Art Tile
— eight stories of light, under one glass sky.
Not only on a wall.
“A triangle of red sandstone at the wedge where 17th meets Broadway and Tremont, opened in 1892 and never closed since. The lobby goes up eight stories to a stained-glass ceiling, cast-iron balconies stepping up the walls in tiers. Afternoon tea is still poured under it. The hotel draws its own water from an artesian well sunk the year it opened, more than seven hundred feet down. Nearly every U.S. president since Theodore Roosevelt has stayed here. The Beatles held a press conference here in August 1964. The doormen still wear top hats. The city changed; the building kept its hours.
Brown Palace Denver Denver Metro Ceramic Art Tile, 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.
The Brown Palace Hotel stands at 321 17th Street in downtown Denver, on the wedge of land where 17th Street meets Tremont Place and Broadway. The building is the work of Frank E. Edbrooke, opened on August 12, 1892, in Italian Renaissance Revival style. The exterior pairs Colorado red sandstone with red Arizona granite. The triangular footprint, forced by the shape of the lot, is the most photographed building plan in the city. Denver itself sits at 5,280 feet, the famous Mile High elevation, at the edge of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The hotel has operated continuously since the day it opened, the second fireproof hotel built in the United States.
The atrium rises eight stories to an oval stained-glass ceiling, the visual center of the hotel since it opened. Cast-iron balconies wrap each upper floor, fabricated by a foundry in Pueblo, Colorado, and stepping up the walls in tiers. The lobby is lined with panels of Mexican onyx. The hotel still draws its drinking water from its own artesian well, sunk in 1892 to a depth of about 720 feet below the building. The well gives the in-house tea and coffee a mineral character no other hotel in the city has.
Afternoon tea has been served in the atrium lobby since 1892. The current service runs daily: finger sandwiches, scones with Devonshire cream, and a tiered tray of pastries beneath the stained-glass dome. The hotel holds 241 rooms across nine floors. Every U.S. President from Theodore Roosevelt through the current era has stayed here, with the exception of Calvin Coolidge. The Beatles held a press conference in the Imperial Ballroom in August 1964. Public history tours run weekly from the lobby; the Ship Tavern and the Palace Arms remain open daily.