Park Slope brownstones row
— — a block of stoops the afternoon falls on.
Not only on a wall.
“A row of late-nineteenth-century brownstones in Brooklyn, on one of the long cross streets that runs down from Prospect Park West toward the avenues. Stone stoops, bay windows, the same cornice carried block after block. The trees on these streets are tall enough now that the afternoon light comes through the leaves in pieces, and the whole row reads warm against the dark stone. from the studio
Park Slope brownstones row, 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.
Park Slope is a Brooklyn neighborhood on the western slope of Prospect Park, bounded roughly by Flatbush Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Prospect Park West, and 15th Street. The Park Slope Historic District, first designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1973 and extended several times since, protects one of the densest concentrations of late-nineteenth-century rowhouse architecture in the United States, with brownstone, limestone, and brick houses built largely between 1880 and 1900 after the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge made the slope newly reachable from Manhattan.
The brown stone in question is mostly Triassic-Jurassic sandstone quarried from the Connecticut River Valley and from Portland, Connecticut — soft enough to carve, warm in tone, and famously prone to spalling when freeze-thaw cycles work into it. The typical Park Slope house runs three or four stories above a high stoop, with a parlor floor lifted a half-flight off the sidewalk, bay windows on the front, and a service entrance below. The streetwall is unbroken for blocks because the houses were built in speculative rows by the same developers.
Most visitors come to Park Slope by way of Prospect Park, which Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux designed in 1867 — the same partnership that designed Central Park — and which forms the neighborhood's eastern edge. From Grand Army Plaza, Seventh Avenue and Fifth Avenue run as the commercial spines south through the Slope, while the cross streets between them carry the rowhouse blocks. The F, G, R, 2, 3, B, and Q subway lines all touch the neighborhood, which is part of why the houses have held their value through every cycle Brooklyn has been through.