Denver Union Station great hall Denver Metro Ceramic Art Tile

Denver opened this station in 1881 and rebuilt the centerpiece in 1914 in granite and terra-cotta, a Beaux-Arts hall set on the long axis of 17th Street. For decades it was a working depot growing quieter. The 2014 restoration kept the bones and gave the room back to the city. The orange neon still says Travel by Train. The chandeliers throw the same warm light over leather sofas, shuffleboard tables, long communal tables. People meet there for coffee before the California Zephyr pulls in, or stay until the bar closes. The planners called it Denver's living room. The name stuck.

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