Castel del Monte — ceramic art tile

Castel del Monte

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Castel del Monte — ceramic art tile
  • Castel del Monte — ceramic art tile
  • Castel del Monte — front
  • Castel del Monte — scale
  • Castel del Monte — gifting
  • Castel del Monte — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
  • Castel del Monte — ceramic art tile
  • Castel del Monte — front
  • Castel del Monte — scale
  • Castel del Monte — gifting
  • Castel del Monte — grouping
  • Above the bench, in a warm oak surround.
  • Beside the kettle, propped on the counter.
  • Above the linens, in a slim black surround.
  • On the nightstand, on a light oak stand.
  • On a picture ledge, where the light comes in.
Castel del Monte

Castel del Monte

$22.00
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An octagon alone on a hill above the Puglian plain, eight-sided to the bone. Eight walls, eight towers, eight rooms on each floor, around an eight-sided court. Frederick II raised it in the 1240s and left no record of what it was for. No moat, no drawbridge, nothing a fortress needs. Seven and a half centuries on, the guides still argue: hunting lodge, observatory, a geometer's idea made of limestone. From the road it reads as a single shape, finished and closed. Italy keeps it on the back of the one-cent coin, where most people carry it without ever looking.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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