Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Marseille
Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Marseille
France’s oldest city, Marseille is located on the Gulf of Lion along the Mediterranean Sea. Home to over 850,000 people, Marseille is the second-largest Metropolitan area in the country. The port city has long links with the former African colonies of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. It is also home to Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation, which became a much-mimicked global urban typology to some detrimental effect. This cover is located near Place Marceau and features an orderly grid counter to the convoluted urban grid of the city. The word for sewer is writ large and the city symbol of a cross and anchor replaces the central pickpoint. This cover is also found in the France manhole cover coaster set.
The perfect gift for housewarmings, and anniversaries each illustration is initially hand-drawn for precision and then permanently etched into cork. The trivets are .375" thick and 7.25" in diameter with rounded edges. The engraving method has incredible detail and tactility. Fabricated from sustainable Portuguese cork. Designed and packaged in Philadelphia, PA USA.
Cork is a natural material, thus rare aberrations within the etching can occur.
As each one is made to order please allow three business days for delivery.
“We all have three cities: the one in which we grew up, the one where we live and the one in which we wished we live."-Alan Furst
