Triana neighborhood across the Guadalquivir
— the side of the river the city sings from.
Not only on a wall.
Triana neighborhood across the Guadalquivir, 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.
“The neighbourhood across the river from old Seville, reached by the cast-iron arches of the Puente de Isabel II. Triana is the home ground of Sevillano flamenco, of the ceramic workshops along Calle Alfarería and Calle Antillano Campos, and of the Velá de Santa Ana, the city's oldest summer festival, held every July since the thirteenth century. The Calle Betis runs along the water with the cathedral and the Torre del Oro framed across the current.
The place, in three passes.
Triana is the riverside quarter of Seville on the west bank of the Guadalquivir, opposite the old city. It was a separate town for most of its history and was joined to Seville administratively only in the nineteenth century. The main connection is the Puente de Isabel II, a cast-iron arch bridge designed by engineers Gustavo Steinacher and Ferdinand Bennetot and opened in 1852, modelled on Paris's Pont du Carrousel. The neighbourhood holds roughly 50,000 people across the districts of Triana Casco Antiguo and Triana Este.
Triana is the historical ceramic quarter of Seville. The clay banks of the Guadalquivir supplied the raw material for tile and pottery workshops from at least the twelfth century, and the painted tin-glazed work known as cerámica trianera covered the patios and facades of much of southern Spain and travelled to colonial-era churches across the Americas. The Centro Cerámica Triana, opened in 2014 in a restored 1900s factory on Calle Antillano Campos, traces the trade through original kilns, moulds, and 6,000-plus surviving pieces.
The Calle Betis runs along the river with restaurant terraces facing the cathedral and the Torre del Oro across the water, and is the easiest place to sit at sunset. The Mercado de Triana, in the old castle of San Jorge at the bridge head, is open most mornings for tapas. The Velá de Santa Ana, the city's oldest festival, runs each year from 21 to 26 July with river-boat jousts on the Guadalquivir. The walk from the cathedral over the bridge takes ten minutes.
