Manhattan 1909
The East River Crossing
(Brooklyn to Manhattan. One Mile of Iron and Intention.)
Before the first bolt was tightened, before the first beam was raised, the Manhattan Bridge was already living in the shadows—of its more glamorous neighbor, of fame, of postcards. But it was never meant to be the belle of the skyline.
It was built to work.
Construction began in 1901. The country was still licking its wounds from the Gilded Age, but ambition never sleeps in New York. The plan was bold: a suspension bridge longer than the Brooklyn, faster to build, and stronger—capable of carrying streetcars, wagons, and eventually the thunder of subways. It opened in 1909, unfussy and unflinching, 6,855 feet of steel and sweat stretching across the East River.
Architectural purists once dismissed its form. Functional, they called it. A bit plain. But step beneath those steel towers, and you’ll understand: this bridge doesn’t need praise. It just needs purpose.
Our Manhattan Bridge Tile is a quiet homage to that purpose. Pressed in stoneware, its profile rises in soft relief—capturing the disciplined lines of its steel towers, the elegant dip of suspension cables, the hush of twilight between boroughs.
Handmade. Hand-glazed. Built to last, just like the bridge itself.
Adventure Built. For those who know, the most important structures in life aren’t always the ones people write poems about… but the ones that hold everything together.
The East River Crossing
(Brooklyn to Manhattan. One Mile of Iron and Intention.)
Before the first bolt was tightened, before the first beam was raised, the Manhattan Bridge was already living in the shadows—of its more glamorous neighbor, of fame, of postcards. But it was never meant to be the belle of the skyline.
It was built to work.
Construction began in 1901. The country was still licking its wounds from the Gilded Age, but ambition never sleeps in New York. The plan was bold: a suspension bridge longer than the Brooklyn, faster to build, and stronger—capable of carrying streetcars, wagons, and eventually the thunder of subways. It opened in 1909, unfussy and unflinching, 6,855 feet of steel and sweat stretching across the East River.
Architectural purists once dismissed its form. Functional, they called it. A bit plain. But step beneath those steel towers, and you’ll understand: this bridge doesn’t need praise. It just needs purpose.
Our Manhattan Bridge Tile is a quiet homage to that purpose. Pressed in stoneware, its profile rises in soft relief—capturing the disciplined lines of its steel towers, the elegant dip of suspension cables, the hush of twilight between boroughs.
Handmade. Hand-glazed. Built to last, just like the bridge itself.
Adventure Built. For those who know, the most important structures in life aren’t always the ones people write poems about… but the ones that hold everything together.
The East River Crossing
(Brooklyn to Manhattan. One Mile of Iron and Intention.)
Before the first bolt was tightened, before the first beam was raised, the Manhattan Bridge was already living in the shadows—of its more glamorous neighbor, of fame, of postcards. But it was never meant to be the belle of the skyline.
It was built to work.
Construction began in 1901. The country was still licking its wounds from the Gilded Age, but ambition never sleeps in New York. The plan was bold: a suspension bridge longer than the Brooklyn, faster to build, and stronger—capable of carrying streetcars, wagons, and eventually the thunder of subways. It opened in 1909, unfussy and unflinching, 6,855 feet of steel and sweat stretching across the East River.
Architectural purists once dismissed its form. Functional, they called it. A bit plain. But step beneath those steel towers, and you’ll understand: this bridge doesn’t need praise. It just needs purpose.
Our Manhattan Bridge Tile is a quiet homage to that purpose. Pressed in stoneware, its profile rises in soft relief—capturing the disciplined lines of its steel towers, the elegant dip of suspension cables, the hush of twilight between boroughs.
Handmade. Hand-glazed. Built to last, just like the bridge itself.
Adventure Built. For those who know, the most important structures in life aren’t always the ones people write poems about… but the ones that hold everything together.
All of our tiles are handmade in Texas. We use the cuenca, or arista, technique, in which the glaze colors are prevented from mingling in the firing process by raised borders molded into the clay
Because we individually press and glaze every tile there is a slight variation which lends to their handmade beauty. The size and weight of each of our tiles hearkens back to the days of true craftsmanship.