Octagonal Black Walnut Serving Tray With Handles

Brevis descriptio producti

1. Eight Sides Instead Of Four Corners

The outline is cut in black walnut as an octagon, so the long edges stay straight while each corner gives way to two short angled faces. In use that means a cup pushed toward the corner keeps travelling to a flat, and hands that meet the tray edge find a bevel rather than a point. A wooden serving tray built this way reads softer on a table than a plain rectangle, and the angled joints take the wear that a sharp corner would.

2. A Raised Rim That Holds The Load

A low wall runs the full perimeter, tall enough to stop a cup sliding off and low enough that a plate can still be lifted over it. Because the rim on this serving tray is continuous, a teapot set down off centre does not tip toward a gap, and a spill stays inside until a cloth reaches it. The floor between the rims is flat and wide, so four cups and a pot sit without being stacked.

3. Handles Cut Through The Rim

Each end has an opening cut straight through the rim, with the edges rounded by hand so a grip does not bite. Cutting through rather than adding a metal fitting keeps the silhouette clean and means nothing works loose after a few years of service. The serving tray can be carried level with two hands or tipped slightly with one, and it hangs on a hook by an opening when not set out.

4. Lignum, Tonus Et Magnitudo Ad Hominem

The serving tray is cut from black walnut, a dark chocolate brown timber with fine straight grain and a low sheen, which suits both a pale Scandinavian table and a dark cafe counter. Size is made to order, so the same outline covers a two cup tray and a full breakfast service, and colour can be matched to a sample. Height is quoted with the drawing, because rim depth and handle size follow it.

5. Tea And Coffee Service

Un vase à thé, deux tasses et une petite assiette d’en-cas tiennent aisément dans le rebord avec de la place libre, et le bord surélevé empêche le vase de glisser lorsque le plateau est posé sur une table basse. Dans une salle de thé, sa forme s’intègre au décor plutôt que d’y apparaître comme un ustensile de cuisine. Le personnel transporte le plateau à thé par ses deux ouvertures, ce qui maintient la charge bien à niveau pendant le trajet du comptoir à la table.

6. Petit-déjeuner, service en chambre et hospitalité

Les hôtels l’utilisent pour le service en chambre : un croissant, un pot de confiture et un verre de jus y voyagent sans glisser, et son fond plat accueille une serviette pliée à côté. Les cafés et les restaurants utilisent la même dimension pour débarrasser une table ou pour acheminer un menu fixe jusqu’au comptoir. À la maison, c’est le plateau de service qu’on apporte au lit ou au canapé, et il se range debout dans un placard.

7. Cura, Oleum, Et Impacatio

Wipe the serving tray after use, wash by hand with a little soap and dry the tray flat so the joints do not take water, then stand it on edge to air. Never soak it or put it in a dishwasher. A coat of mineral oil every few weeks keeps the rim from drying pale where hands grip it. Each tray is packed on its own with paper between faces and corner protection.

8. Emblemata, Magnitudo et Venditio in Magnitudine

Logos are laser engraved on the tea tray floor, where the mark sits under a cup and stays visible when the tray is carried, or burned into the base. Outline size, rim height, handle opening and colour can all be changed, so a custom serving tray can follow a hotel's own crockery footprint. Sample time is 7 to 10 days and minimum order is confirmed with the drawing.

Specificationes

Key Selling Points at a Glance

• Contur Octogonal: angulus obliqui, nulli puncti acuti in extremis
• Ordo Elevatus: paries continuus tenet calices et samovarium in situ
• Manubria Excisa: aperturas per ordo, rotundata et limata
• Planum Aequale: quattuor calices et unum vas capiunt sine superpositione
• Nux Nigra: tonus fuscus ut chocolatum, venae rectae subtilissimae, splendor minimus
• Paratus ad Servitium: thea, prandium matutinum, servitium in camera, et expurgatio caffearii
• Productio Ad Hominem: magnitudo, altitudo ordo, manubria et color secundum schemata