Kaanapali Whalers Village Maui 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.

Whalers Village sits on Kaʻanapali Beach on the west side of Maui, about 25 minutes north of Kahului Airport and three miles north of Lahaina. The complex anchors the middle of the three-mile Kaʻanapali Beach Walk and is fully open-air, with shops and restaurants on two levels.

The Whalers Village Museum was a free museum on the upper level of the complex from 1986 until 2018. It covered Lahaina's 19th-century whaling era and displayed a full sperm whale skeleton. The museum closed in 2018; its collection moved off the property.

Yes. The village fronts directly onto Kaʻanapali Beach, with the Kaʻanapali Beach Walk running through it. Hula Grill and Leilani's on the Beach sit on the sand. The walk continues north toward Puʻu Kekaʻa (Black Rock) and south toward the Hyatt Regency at the south end of the resort strip.

Kaʻanapali, three miles north of Lahaina, was spared. Whalers Village did not burn. It closed briefly and then reopened, serving as a working hub for displaced west-side residents through the recovery. Lahaina town itself was largely destroyed.

The Sheraton Maui at the north end of Kaʻanapali Beach holds a nightly torch-lighting and cliff-diving ceremony at sunset off Puʻu Kekaʻa, the lava promontory the Hawaiians called Black Rock. It honours Kahekili, Maui's last ruling king, who is said to have leapt from the rock.

Whalers Village opened in the early 1970s as the retail core of Kaʻanapali Beach Resort, the master-planned resort developed by Amfac on former sugarcane lands of the Pioneer Mill Company.

The beach faces west across the ʻAuʻau Channel toward Lānaʻi, with Molokaʻi visible to the northwest. On clear evenings the silhouette of Lānaʻi sits directly into the sunset line.

It travels well to anyone who honeymooned at Kaʻanapali, worked the west side, or has family ties to Lahaina. A Small or a Coaster Set sent with a handwritten note from the studio carries the feeling. For a wedding-anniversary gift, the Medium or the Large works.

The piece reads coastal-modern and tropical-modern most naturally, with driftwood and bleached oak, off-white walls, rattan, indigos and seafoam. It also holds its own against a deeper jewel-tone room. A navy or forest study wall makes the colour come forward.

Coastal-modern and quiet-coastal continued to broaden into the mainland market through 2025 and 2026, especially the warmer Pacific variants over the older New England palette. This piece sits in the warmer Pacific lane and reads as place-specific rather than generic-beach.

Over a standard three-seat sofa, a single Large centred high reads strong, or a four-tile Mural for fuller coverage. Over a console table, a Medium or a Coaster Set arranged in a wood tray works well. For a stairwell or entry wall a nine-tile Mural anchors the space.

Yes. For damp rooms and backsplashes we use the Dura Satin finish, which is scratch-resistant and easy to clean. The Matte finish works the same way with no sheen. The glossy finish belongs in framed wall pieces in dry rooms.

A microfibre cloth and warm water. No solvents, no abrasives. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure and lives beneath the finish, so the artwork will not lift with cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original work by Reid Wender, the curator and eye of the studio. We do not license or resell. Each tile is hand-finished in our Knoxville workspace.