Brown Palace Denver Denver Metro Ceramic Art Tile

A triangle of red sandstone at the wedge where 17th meets Broadway and Tremont, opened in 1892 and never closed since. The lobby goes up eight stories to a stained-glass ceiling, cast-iron balconies stepping up the walls in tiers. Afternoon tea is still poured under it. The hotel draws its own water from an artesian well sunk the year it opened, more than seven hundred feet down. Nearly every U.S. president since Theodore Roosevelt has stayed here. The Beatles held a press conference here in August 1964. The doormen still wear top hats. The city changed; the building kept its hours.

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