Vieux Nice Old Town

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.

Vieux Nice is the historic old town of Nice, France, on the Côte d'Azur. It sits at the eastern end of the Baie des Anges, between the Promenade du Paillon and the Colline du Château, a pedestrianised quarter of narrow streets that pre-date the modern city.

The flower market is the Marché aux Fleurs de Cours Saleya, held in the long open square along the southern edge of the old town. It runs Tuesday through Sunday from around 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. On Mondays the same space hosts an antiques and brocante market.

The ochre, rose, and terracotta palette is the Ligurian tradition Nice inherited from its centuries as part of the County of Nice and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The colour is limewash mixed with mineral earth pigments. Heritage protections now require municipal approval for any facade repainting, which keeps the quarter coherent.

Nice belonged to the County of Nice in the Kingdom of Sardinia until 1860, when the Treaty of Turin transferred the territory to France. The Italianate architecture, the Niçois dialect, and the local kitchen all carry that earlier inheritance. Italian unification followed a year later, in 1861.

Vieux Nice is the home of socca, a thin chickpea-flour pancake cooked on a large copper griddle, alongside pissaladière, the onion-and-anchovy flatbread, and salade niçoise. Most are sold from market stalls and small dedicated shops around Cours Saleya and Rue Pairolière.

Castle Hill, the Colline du Château, rises directly above the eastern edge of the old town. The walk up the Montée Lesage from Place Rossetti takes about fifteen minutes. A free elevator beside the Hôtel Suisse climbs the headland for visitors who prefer not to climb the stairs.

The cathedral on Place Rossetti was built between 1650 and 1699 in the Niçois Baroque style and consecrated to Saint Reparata, the patron saint of Nice. It is free to enter outside Mass and remains the seat of the Bishop of Nice.

It has been a meaningful gift for customers with ties to the south of France. The ochre-and-rose palette is unmistakably Vieux Nice, and the local kitchen sits just under the surface of the painting: the flower market at Cours Saleya, the cathedral on Place Rossetti, the smell of socca on the griddle. A Small or Medium with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The warm Mediterranean palette carries well into Mediterranean-modern, French country, and jewel-tone maximalist rooms. It also reads clean against linen-white walls in a coastal-modern setting, where the ochres and roses provide the only saturated colour in the frame. The piece is hottest in a north-facing room.

Yes. The warm-Mediterranean wave leans on terracotta, ochre, and limewash textures, which sit close to the Ligurian palette of Vieux Nice. The depth of colour set into the ceramic surface holds up well in renovated Provençal kitchens and limewashed dining rooms, where printed reproductions tend to flatten.

Above a standard three-seat sofa, the single Large centres well above the back cushions. For more presence on a wider sectional, a four-tile Mural balances the wall. Above a console table in an entry or hallway, a single Medium or Large is the right scale; a nine-tile Mural is for a stairwell or full-wall dining-room feature.

Yes. The Dura Satin and Matte finishes are scratch-resistant and built for vertical installation in damp rooms: a kitchen backsplash, a guest bathroom, a shower wall. The Glossy finish is for framed wall art and dry rooms, not splash zones. Choose Dura Satin or Matte for any wet location.

Microfibre cloth and warm water. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, beneath a thin glossy or satin finish, so it does not lift with normal cleaning. For kitchen grease or limescale, a mild dish soap is fine. Skip abrasive scrubbers and ammonia or bleach-based cleaners.

Yes. Reid Wender curates every WenderVista vista and the original painting is produced in-house in our Knoxville, Tennessee studio. There is no licensing, no stock-photo basis, and no third-party artist. Each tile is hand-finished, with the painting slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure beneath a thin finish.