Reno
— — the desert sky over a river town.
Not only on a wall.
“Northern Nevada at about 4,500 feet, where the Truckee River runs out of Lake Tahoe and bends through the middle of town. The downtown arch still says Biggest Little City in the World. Casinos on Virginia Street, the university on a hill above, the Sierra Nevada filling the western horizon. Late August, the desert empties northeast toward the playa. — from the studio
Reno, 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.
Reno sits in the Truckee Meadows valley of northern Nevada, at an elevation of about 4,500 feet on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada. The city itself holds around 275,000 residents, with the wider Reno-Sparks metropolitan area closer to 510,000. The Truckee River runs out of Lake Tahoe forty miles southwest and flows through downtown on its way to Pyramid Lake. The Reno Arch over Virginia Street, first raised in 1926 and rebuilt in its current form in 1987, still carries the slogan Biggest Little City in the World.
Reno's high desert climate runs dry: about seven inches of rain a year, with humidity often in the teens. Summer days reach the mid-nineties and drop thirty degrees overnight; the Sierra rain shadow keeps the sky clear roughly three hundred days a year. Mount Rose, the closest Sierra peak at 10,776 feet, holds snow into July. The University of Nevada, Reno sits on a hill at the north end of town with a view straight down Virginia Street to the arch. Lake Tahoe is forty minutes by car up Mount Rose Highway.
Reno-Tahoe International Airport sits four miles southeast of downtown with direct service to most major western US hubs. The Reno Arch, the river walk along the Truckee, and the National Automobile Museum cluster within walking distance of the casino strip on Virginia Street. Lake Tahoe is forty minutes southwest by Mount Rose Highway. Burning Man's Black Rock City builds two and a half hours northeast on the Black Rock Desert playa each year in the last week of August. The Reno-Sparks Convention Center anchors the south end of town.