Trays

They organise surfaces and serve, in roughly equal measure. On a coffee table, a tray corrals the remote controls and candles into an intentional composition, and gives drinks a coaster-by-default landing zone that protects the table beneath. In kitchens they hold oils and salts beside the hob; in bathrooms, the daily bottles; on dressers, watches and jewellery; and as serving pieces they carry tea, aperitifs and cheese with a stability plastic trays cannot fake. The material earns the work: sealed stone wipes clean, the mass keeps the tray planted while things are lifted from it, and the raised lip catches drips before they travel. It is the smallest piece in the catalogue and often the most used.

They are honest stone, so they carry real weight, and the collection is sized so that stays practical. Reference pieces sit in the comfortable low kilograms unloaded: firmly two-handed with a tea service aboard, but well within everyday serving for most people, and the mass is exactly what makes a loaded stone tray feel stable rather than precarious. Your quotation states the actual weight for the size and stone you choose, because a 380 mm round in Cold Jade and a long rectangular travertine tray are different objects. If a tray will be carried constantly rather than mostly resident on a surface, say so, a smaller diameter or a thinner section keeps the daily lift light.

Yes, tea service is precisely what several of these forms were drawn for. Stone handles serving temperatures comfortably: a hot teapot, warm dishes and mugs sit directly on the surface without harm, and the material’s thermal mass keeps the tray itself steady rather than scorching. The two cautions mirror all stonecare: extreme direct heat (a pan straight off the flame) deserves a trivet even on stone, and acidic spills, lemon for the tea, vinaigrette from the board, should be wiped after service rather than left to etch the sealed surface. Interior faces are honed and sealed for exactly this life; the care notes packed with each tray restate it in two lines.

Any suitable stone in the collection, at sizes drawn to your use. The reference pieces show the range’s poles, vividly veined green stone that turns a tray into the table’s focal point, and beige travertine that reads calm and architectural, but tray-scale objects are also an efficient use of dramatic slab sections, so marbles across the colour families are all available. Sizes are a specification line: rounds from small catch-all diameters to generous serving discs, rectangles cut to a specific console or ottoman, lips raised higher for bar service or kept minimal for a dresser. Send the surface the tray will live on and its job, and the drawing sizes it to both.