Salamanca district elegant streets
— streets the city laid out on graph paper.
Not only on a wall.
Salamanca district elegant streets, 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.
“East of the Paseo del Prado, the grid the city laid out on graph paper in the 1860s. The Marqués de Salamanca planned wide streets, deep blocks, and tall stone buildings; Calle Serrano and Calle Velázquez run north to south through it. Today it carries the city's quieter old money, the embassies, and the Mercado de la Paz.
The place, in three passes.
The Barrio de Salamanca lies east of the Paseo del Prado in central Madrid, between the Retiro park and the M-30 ring road. It was developed from the 1860s as part of the Ensanche, the planned expansion of the city, by the financier José de Salamanca y Mayol, the first Marqués de Salamanca. The district covers about 5.4 square kilometres and is laid out on a strict grid, with the main north-south axes of Calle Serrano, Calle Velázquez, and Calle Príncipe de Vergara.
The buildings are mostly five- and six-storey ensanche blocks in pale limestone and stucco, with cast-iron balconies and tall first-floor windows. The original program required interior courtyards for light and air, and a setback for service entries — a quiet bourgeois architecture that has aged well. The Palacio de Linares (1873) on the Plaza de Cibeles and the Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca (1855) on Paseo de Recoletos are the grander examples; the everyday Salamanca block is a smaller, equally careful version of the same idea.
Salamanca is the quiet luxury district: Calle Serrano carries Spanish flagship retail and the Madrid outposts of Loewe, Hermès, and Cartier. The Mercado de la Paz on Calle Ayala is the neighborhood market, with one of the city's best tortilla counters at the Casa Dani stall. The Museo Lázaro Galdiano on Serrano holds the private collection of the financier of the same name, including paintings by Goya and El Greco. The closest metro stations are Serrano, Velázquez, and Goya on Lines 4 and 2.
