Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Minneapolis
Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Minneapolis
The City of Lakes has many extraordinary manhole covers, thanks in part to a cover art program launched in the 1980’s. The program expanded in the 1990’s with the renovation of Nicollet Mall. Artist Kate Burke developed 11 designs to embellish a 13 block area. The cover offered here is not one of them. Part of the mission of the Under Cover series is to preserve the older covers that are disappearing due to age, theft, collection or to literal obscurity. This snowflake design from Gillette-Herzog Manufacturing still exists in Minneapolis, but often paved over. The foundry has morphed through the acquisition by US Steel. The foundry site is now occupied by Metal-Matic, Inc. which may have one of these on its sidewalk. Part of the Twin Cities Manhole cover coaster series.
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
