Fayetteville
— — a town the Ozarks fold around.
Not only on a wall.
“A college town set into the long ridges of the Boston Mountains, the southern wing of the Ozarks. The University of Arkansas sits on a hill at the centre, and the land falls away in folds of oak and hickory in every direction. From the studio, the picture is the town held in the bowl of its hills, the way it reads from the top of Mount Sequoyah at first light.
Fayetteville, 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.
The place, in three passes.
Fayetteville sits at roughly 1,401 feet in Washington County, in the Boston Mountains of northwest Arkansas. The town was incorporated in 1836 and is the seat of the University of Arkansas, founded in 1871 on a hill at the south edge of the early settlement. It anchors the southern end of the four-city Northwest Arkansas metro that runs up to Bentonville. The Razorback Greenway, a paved trail, threads the valley floor for thirty-six miles north.
The Boston Mountains are the highest part of the Ozark Plateau, with ridges reaching above 2,500 feet and valleys cut deep by the headwaters of the White River. Mount Sequoyah, on the east side of town, rises to about 1,742 feet and looks down on the campus and the courthouse square. The hills cool the summer nights even when the days run warm, and morning fog often settles in the lower valleys before burning off by mid-morning.
Autumn is the season the Ozarks were built for. The mix of oak, hickory, maple, and sweetgum on these slopes turns through most of October, with peak colour typically in the last ten days of the month. Devil's Den State Park, twenty miles south on Highway 170, draws people for the long views off the Boston Mountains escarpment. The Buffalo National River, an hour east, runs through some of the most concentrated colour in the state.