New Market Battlefield

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 Civil War engagement on May 15, 1864 in which Confederates under John C. Breckinridge defeated Union forces under Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley, keeping the Valley open to Confederate use through that summer.

257 Virginia Military Institute cadets were marched 80 miles from Lexington and sent into the fight as the assault crossed the Bushong farm. Ten were killed or died of wounds. Forty-seven were wounded.

Days of spring rain had soaked the wheat field into a deep bog. Cadets pulling through the mud lost shoes in the suction and came out of the assault barefoot. The name stuck.

Virginia Military Institute has owned and operated the park since 1967. The Virginia Museum of the Civil War on the ridge holds the cadet rolls, period artifacts, and a film on the Valley campaign.

Yes. The Bushong farmhouse, summer kitchen, and several outbuildings remain on their 1864 footprint inside the park, preserved as the family compound the assault passed through that afternoon.

Yes. On the Saturday closest to May 15 each year, VMI cadets in period uniform reenact the charge across the Field of Lost Shoes, a commemoration that has been continuous since 1923.

Yes. The charge across this field is at the center of VMI's institutional memory. A Medium with a handwritten note from the studio is a common ring-figure, commissioning, or reunion gift.

The piece sits well in Library-traditional, Virginia-classical, and Mountain-modern rooms. The field greens, wheat tones, and slate sky carry against dark wood, leather, and a wall of books without overwhelming.

Yes. Library-traditional leans on dark wood, leather, and one anchoring landscape on the chimney wall. A Large above a desk or a 4-tile Mural over the mantel does that work cleanly.

A single Large suits most consoles and study walls. A 4-tile Mural carries a standard sofa or mantel wall. A 9-tile Mural is right over a long sectional in a great room.

Yes, with the Dura Satin or Matte finish. Both resist scratches and steam and clean with a damp microfibre cloth. Many of our customers place a piece in a guest powder room as a quiet anchor.

A damp microfibre cloth and plain water. No sprays, no abrasive pads. The colour is held in the ceramic surface beneath a thin protective finish and does not lift with normal cleaning.

Yes. Every WenderVista tile is painted in the studio's own visual language by Reid Wender. Nothing is licensed in. Each piece is hand-finished in Knoxville before it ships.