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Pont Neuf
$22.00
The oldest bridge in Paris, despite the name. Twelve stone arches across the Seine, the first crossing built without a row of houses pressing in on either side. That's why Parisians remember it: it was the bridge from which they could finally see their own river. Three hundred and eighty-four carved stone faces watch the water from the bastions along its flanks. At the centre, the Square du Vert-Galant drops down to a small wedge of garden where the Île de la Cité meets the current. Couples sit there in summer with bottles of wine. The light is best an hour before sunset.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.