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Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileVermont
in the Green Mountains, where the church faces the ridge

Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt

— a white steeple set against an October ridge.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“Vermont is village-and-mountain country, and the composition has held for two hundred years: a white wooden steeple at the foreground, a hardwood ridge behind it, a road running between. This piece holds that shape. The village is no village in particular; the ridge could be any rise in the Greens. Together they read as the country itself.

from the studio
Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt
— bring it home

Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt, 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.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
— start a Coaster Set

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.

— about Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

The Green Mountains run the length of Vermont, roughly 250 miles north to south, from the Massachusetts border to the Quebec line. Most of the state's 247 towns hold to a familiar plan: a white-clapboard meetinghouse at the village center, a town green, a covered bridge or two, and a hardwood ridge close enough to walk to. The Northern Forest broadleaf canopy of sugar maple, beech, and yellow birch covers about 76% of the state.

— the season

The composition reads differently every six weeks. In late September the ridge behind the steeple turns scarlet and gold for roughly two weeks; in November the leaves drop and the church goes silver against bare grey wood; by January the snow holds the steeple line and the spruce on the upper ridge reads almost black. Sugaring season runs from late February into early April, when sap-house steam rises along the ridge road at dusk.

— informed by Vermont Tourism: Foliage
— the silence

Vermont villages are quiet in a particular way: a single car on the road every few minutes, a Congregational bell on the hour, the wind moving through the maples behind the church. The composition holds because nothing else competes with it. There are no power lines in the foreground. The ridge does not have a town on it. The eye goes steeple, then ridge, then sky, and rests there.

— where
United States · Vermont (statewide archetype)
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
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Stowe
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Woodstock
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Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt
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Stowe
Woodstock
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Vermont is village-and-mountain country. Preserve the village steeple silhouette plus the surrounding hardwood ridges in every Green Mountains prompt — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

Vermont's earliest settlements were laid out around a Congregational meetinghouse on a town green, with the village built into the lower valley below a wooded ridge. Two centuries later the same plan still defines most of the state.

Sugar maple, American beech, and yellow birch dominate the Vermont upland forest, with red spruce and balsam fir on the higher slopes. This mix gives the ridge its layered autumn colour and its dark winter line.

Roughly 76%, about 4.6 million acres. Vermont is the fourth most forested state in the country by percentage, behind only Maine, New Hampshire, and West Virginia.

Peak foliage runs from the last week of September through the second week of October, sweeping north to south. Higher elevations turn first; the valleys around the villages hold colour about a week longer.

Vermont has 247 incorporated towns and cities, plus a handful of gores and grants. The 2020 census put the state population at 643,077, fewer people than Boston, spread across an area the size of New Hampshire.

No. The composition is a Vermont archetype, faithful to the steeple-and-ridge silhouette that repeats from Peacham to Newfane. Specific villages get their own pieces in the WenderVista atlas.

— about the piece in your home

It carries well to anyone with ties to the state: a transplant, a leaf-peeper, a returning college kid. A Medium reads as a piece of the country itself rather than a single town, which makes it a welcome gift for most Vermont-shaped lives.

The white-against-ridge composition fits Farmhouse-traditional, New England Coastal, Mountain-modern, and Cabin-eclectic rooms. It works against shiplap, painted brick, and warm-toned plaster walls.

A single Large covers most sofas. Above a long pine table or a wider sectional, a 4-tile Mural carries the ridge line more strongly. A 9-tile Mural belongs over a stairwell or above a stone hearth.

Yes, in the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both are scratch-resistant and tolerate humidity well, which makes them right for backsplashes, powder rooms, and the wall behind a clawfoot tub.

A soft microfibre cloth and plain water. No abrasives, no ammonia-based sprays. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it, so light dusting is all most owners ever need.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is curated and finished in our Knoxville studio. We do not license outside images. The Voynich visual language is our own.

— if this one stayed with you

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