Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Porto
Manhole Cover Cork Trivet-Porto
The second city of Portugal, but first for modern architecture enthusiasts, Porto is home to 215,000 Tripeiros. The city is the workhorse of the country and hosts many fantastic architecture firms. The Águas do Porto public service building was designed by Barbosa & Guimarães and comes replete with an active waterfall scupper. The related tampa de bueiro featured here has stylized waves of water in a grid. A stylized cubic typeface surrounds the graphics. Tim tim!
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