Puerta del Sol clock tower

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.

The Real Casa de Correos, the old royal post office on the south side of Puerta del Sol. It was built in 1768 by Jacques Marquet and now houses the presidency of the Community of Madrid.

In 1866. The mechanism was donated to the city by José Rodríguez de Losada, a Spanish clockmaker based in London. It replaced an earlier, less reliable clock on the same façade.

Las Doce Campanadas — twelve strokes at midnight, one grape eaten per chime for luck in each month of the coming year. The custom dates from around 1909 and has been televised nationally since 1962.

A bronze and stone marker set into the pavement at the foot of the Casa de Correos. It is the origin point of Spain's six radial national highways — the A-1 through A-6 — and the symbolic centre of the country's road network.

It is named for a fifteenth-century city gate that stood at this spot, decorated with an image of the sun because it faced east into the rising light. The gate was demolished as the city grew westward.

The Bear and the Strawberry Tree statue on the eastern corner — Madrid's heraldic emblem — the equestrian statue of Charles III at the centre, and the Tío Pepe sherry sign that has overlooked the square in various positions since 1936.

It carries well. The Sol clock is the most personal landmark in the city — the one Madrileños look up at on New Year's Eve. A Small or Medium reads as a thoughtful keepsake on a shelf or entry table.

Traditional, warm-neutral and library-modern rooms. The pale stone and dark clock face hold against walnut, oak and natural linen, and beside framed prints rather than bright contemporary colour.

Yes. The return to layered antique-modern interiors reads neoclassical façades and clock faces as anchor pieces. The tile sits well on a console with brass lamps or above a writing desk.

Above a sofa a Large carries the tower clearly; for a fuller wall a 4-tile Mural opens out the full façade. Above a console a single Medium holds the room without crowding it.

Yes, in Dura Satin or Matte. Both are scratch-resistant and handle steam and splashes, which makes them right for a powder room, a kitchen backsplash or a shower wall.

A soft microfibre cloth and water. No solvents, no abrasive cleaners. The colour is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, so the surface is the artwork.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is painted in our distinctive stained-glass and alcohol-ink visual language by the studio, with no licensing. One eye, one atlas.