Tsagarada plane-tree square
— a tree older than the village around it.
Not only on a wall.
Tsagarada plane-tree square, 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.
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.
“In the upper square of Agia Paraskevi, one of the four parishes of Tsagarada, a single plane tree spreads over the flagstones and the small whitewashed church. The trunk measures about fourteen metres around and is said to be more than a thousand years old. Cafés sit at its roots; the Aegean drops away below the village through chestnut and beech forest. The leaves are slow to turn. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Tsagarada is a village on the eastern slopes of Mount Pelion in Magnesia, Thessaly, looking out over the Aegean from roughly 500 metres elevation. It is organised, as several Pelion villages are, into four separate parish settlements — Agia Paraskevi, Agios Stefanos, Agia Kyriaki, and Taxiarches — each with its own church and square. The Pelion range above is a long forested ridge that rises to 1,624 metres at Mount Pourianos Stavros and was, in Greek myth, the summer pasture of the centaurs.
The square of the Agia Paraskevi parish is dominated by a single Oriental plane tree, Platanus orientalis, whose trunk measures roughly fourteen metres in circumference. Local tradition places its age at over a thousand years, which would make it among the oldest living trees in Greece. The crown shades the flagged square and the small parish church of Agia Paraskevi, with two long-running tavernas set at the base of the trunk. The tree is a protected natural monument under Greek law.
Pelion has the longest leaf-on season of any mountain in mainland Greece because of its mix of beech, chestnut, and plane forest. Spring brings wild orchids and apple blossom across the orchards above the village; autumn turns the chestnuts gold from late October. The village is also a winter base, with the small ski centre at Hania a short drive above. Summer is warm but tempered by the elevation and the sea breeze rising up from the Aegean below.
