Carved cameos and coin-like portraits crowd the interior of this shallow tray, the kind of thing that would've sat on a scholar's desk holding wax seals rather than paper clips. Built in Michigan from archival book boards, dense enough to hold its shape and settle flat without wobbling. Small enough to sit inside its larger companion or hold its own on a narrow ledge, still roomy enough to corral a handful of coins or a stray key.
parvum opus
Intaglio Nesting Tray
Regular Price$172
Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 in; Hight: 1.12 in
Material: Handcrafted in Michigan using archival book boards clad in a limited edition CARTA intaglio paper exclusively made for this collection.
About the Brand
Parvum Opus borrows a little from everywhere: the proportions of a neoclassical building here, the crowded logic of a cabinet of curiosities there, the patience of an early 20th-century workshop running through all of it. Every intaglio box and marbleized frame gets made in-house, by hand, with methods that would've been unremarkable a hundred years ago and feel almost radical now. Old-world habits, put to work on things you'd actually keep on a desk.
Manufactured
United States
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