Stone Harbor Seven Mile Beach
— the long flat hour before the tide turns.
Not only on a wall.
Stone Harbor Seven Mile Beach, 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.
“A wide quiet beach on the ocean side of Seven Mile Island, the barrier strip Stone Harbor shares with Avalon. The dune grass holds; the boardwalk stays modest. South of the swimming beaches the sand bends toward the Point, where the bird sanctuary keeps the lights low and herons fish the back bays. Most of the year it belongs to the regulars: surfcasters, terns, the families who have rented the same block for three generations. from the studio
The place, in three passes.
Stone Harbor is a borough on Seven Mile Island, a barrier strip on the Atlantic coast of Cape May County in southern New Jersey. The island runs roughly seven miles north to south and is shared with Avalon at its northern end. The borough was incorporated in 1914 and covers a little over a square mile of land. The southern tip narrows to the Point, where the Hereford Inlet separates Seven Mile Island from North Wildwood. The Atlantic side is wide swimming beach; the bay side opens onto the back marshes of the Cape May National Wildlife Refuge complex.
The southern end of the borough holds the Stone Harbor Bird Sanctuary, a 21-acre maritime forest that has been a designated National Natural Landmark since 1965. The sanctuary sits inside the Atlantic Flyway, and through the summer it hosts nesting herons, egrets, and ibis; in autumn the migratory raptor count rises sharply at the Point. Cape May County as a whole logs more than 400 bird species across the year, one of the densest tallies on the East Coast. The air over the back marshes carries salt, cordgrass, and on warm evenings the calls of the rookery.
The summer season runs roughly from Memorial Day through mid-September, when Stone Harbor's year-round population of about 850 swells many times over with renters and second-home owners. Beach tags are required for swimmers from late June into Labor Day weekend. The shoulder weeks of September and early October are the local favourite: warm ocean, thinning crowds, and the start of the autumn shorebird push. Winter empties the island down to the regulars, the bay freezes in patches some years, and the dune fence work begins before the first nor'easter.
