Louvre Colonnade — ceramic art tile

Louvre Colonnade

Keepsake · 2 in / Glossy / Loose
$22.00
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Louvre Colonnade — ceramic art tile
  • Louvre Colonnade — ceramic art tile
  • Louvre Colonnade — front
  • Louvre Colonnade — scale
  • Louvre Colonnade — gifting
  • Louvre Colonnade — 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.
  • Louvre Colonnade — ceramic art tile
  • Louvre Colonnade — front
  • Louvre Colonnade — scale
  • Louvre Colonnade — gifting
  • Louvre Colonnade — 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.
Louvre Colonnade

Louvre Colonnade

$22.00
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The east facade of the Louvre, looking out toward Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois across a small dry moat. Twenty-eight Corinthian columns in pairs, raised on a high basement that lifts the whole composition above the street. Claude Perrault drew it in the 1660s after Louis XIV passed over Gian Lorenzo Bernini's grander Italian proposal. The choice mattered: France had decided what its century would look like. Most visitors walk straight past on the way to the Cour Carrée without quite seeing what's there. Better in the early light, when the shadows between the paired columns are still long.

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

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