Pikes Peak from Garden of the Gods Front Range Ceramic Art Tile

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.

From Garden of the Gods, a 1,367-acre public park on the western edge of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Pikes Peak rises about twelve miles to the west of the park. The cleanest framing is from the Central Garden parking area and the main loop trail.

14,115 feet, or 4,302 metres. It is one of Colorado's fifty-three fourteeners and the southernmost high peak of the Front Range. The summit is reached by the Pikes Peak Highway, the Manitou and Pike's Peak Cog Railway, and the Barr Trail for hikers.

The vertical fins are Fountain Formation sandstone, laid down about 290 million years ago and tilted upright during the uplift of the Rocky Mountains. Iron oxide coats the quartz grains, which is what makes the rock read red against the junipers and the snow on Pikes Peak.

Yes. The park has been free since 1909, when the children of Charles Elliott Perkins deeded the land to Colorado Springs with the condition that it remain free and open to the public. It is run by the city and open every day of the year.

Katharine Lee Bates wrote the first lines of America the Beautiful from the summit in July 1893. The peak also carries the name of Zebulon Pike, who attempted a winter ascent in 1806, was turned back by deep snow, and never reached the top.

The first hour after sunrise. The summit catches alpenglow at first light, the red rocks warm shortly after, and the air is clearest before mid-morning. In summer the afternoon clouds typically cap the peak by one o'clock.

Not directly. The Barr Trail to the summit begins in Manitou Springs, about three miles west of the park, and climbs roughly 7,800 feet over 12.6 miles. From Garden of the Gods the peak is meant to be seen, not approached on foot.

It has carried well for customers with roots in the Front Range corridor. Pikes Peak is what people from Colorado Springs see every morning, the silhouette that orients the town. A Medium or Large with a handwritten note from the studio reads as a piece of home for someone who grew up under the mountain.

The deep iron-red Fountain rocks and the cool grey-blue of the snow-capped peak sit well in Mountain-modern, Southwest-modern, and Jewel-tone Maximalist rooms. Against pale or limewashed walls the red reads like light through coloured glass; in a warmer room the peak holds the cool tone of the high country.

Mountain-modern rooms have moved past the all-grey reclaimed wood look toward warmer mineral palettes: terracotta, oxide red, weathered brass, sage. The Fountain reds in this piece sit in that warmer register. It reads as art rather than souvenir, which suits a considered alpine or Southwest interior.

Above a console or a bed, a single Large holds the wall on its own. Above a sofa, most rooms want more presence: a 4-tile Mural for a balanced block, or a 9-tile Mural where the wall is wide enough to give the peak room to breathe.

Yes. For a bathroom, shower, or kitchen backsplash, choose the Dura Satin or Matte finish; both are scratch-resistant and built for damp, vertical installation. The Glossy finish is best kept to drier walls and framed display.

A soft microfibre cloth with plain water. The colour lives in the ceramic surface beneath a thin glossy finish, so it will not fade or rub off with normal cleaning. Skip abrasive pads and harsh solvents.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is created in-house by Reid Wender and hand-finished in our Knoxville studio. The artwork is not licensed or reprinted from another source; each place is painted in our own visual language and made to order.