the sequoia canopy

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 largest living giant sequoias reach 270 to 279 feet. General Sherman, in the Giant Forest, stands about 275 feet. They are not the tallest trees on earth — coast redwoods are — but they are the most massive by volume.

Huckleberry shrubs, ferns, and lichens root in bark duff hundreds of feet up. Reiterated sequoia trunks grow straight out of horizontal limbs. A quiet invertebrate community lives up there too, mapped mostly since the early 2000s.

Steve Sillett and collaborators at Humboldt State began systematic canopy work on giant sequoias in the early 2000s, using single-rope techniques borrowed from coast-redwood research. Their measurements gave the crown a real geography.

Mature giant sequoias in the Giant Forest are commonly 1,500 to 2,700 years old. General Sherman is estimated at roughly 2,200 years. Age is inferred from ring counts on fallen and cored trees, not from the standing giants themselves.

It sits in Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California, at about 6,700 feet elevation on the western slope of the southern Sierra Nevada. The nearest gateway town is Three Rivers, roughly forty kilometres southwest.

The Castle, KNP Complex, and Windy fires killed an estimated 13 to 19 percent of all mature giant sequoias on earth. Most died from canopy scorch — the ceiling burned before the trunks failed.

The vertical detail rewards a taller format. Medium reads well over a desk or console. Large or Mural lets the crown-columns run floor-to-ceiling, which is closer to how the place actually feels.

Deep resinous green, cinnamon-rust bark, and a warm gold where light breaks through. It sits comfortably with unfinished wood, brass, cream linen, and matte black. It reads calm in daylight and warmer under lamps.

The pigments are slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, then hand-finished. They do not fade in normal indoor light and can be wiped clean with a damp cloth.

Anywhere the eye travels upward — a stairwell, an entry with height, a bedroom above the headboard. It also anchors a quiet reading corner well, especially where a lamp can pick up the gold notes at the top of the frame.

Yes. The Triptych splits the canopy vertically into understory, mid-crown, and ceiling. Hung with a small gap between panels, it exaggerates the height and reads as one continuous climb up the tree.

Yes. The Coaster and Coaster Set crop into the bark and needle detail rather than the full crown. They read as small abstract studies in green and rust and pair well with the larger pieces on a shelf.