Manhattan, New York wood serving tray in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall
Manhattan, New York wood serving tray in laser-cut Baltic birch, shown framed against a light wall

Manhattan, New York Wood Serving Tray | Carved Birch Lake Map Tray

$ 149.00
12 x 20 in
Birch, acrylic surface
Single-layer carved relief
Etched depths and place names
Soundings: NOAA nautical survey data
How the Water Becomes Wood

The tray is a working chart first, cut to the water's true shoreline.

  1. ChartThe shape comes straight from a bathymetric chart of the water.
  2. CutThe shoreline is laser-cut from birch, exact to the map.
  3. EtchDepths, place names, and points of interest are burned in before the shoreline layer is set on top.
  4. SealA durable acrylic surface locks the map in, so the tray is made to be used, not just admired.

A Manhattan serving tray in carved birch, 12 by 20 inches: the island and its rivers cut and etched at hand scale, sealed in acrylic, made for apartments that entertain harder than their square footage suggests.

Manhattan's proportions were born for this format, long, narrow, water on all sides, and the etching keeps the details honest: the Battery at one end, the Harlem River closing the loop at the other, bridges stitched across the East River. Serve over midtown; the olives go roughly in Central Park.

A closing gift, a host gift, a first-apartment flex: the tray covers all three.

The island's waters carry full carved depth on the Manhattan 3D chart.

  • 12 × 20 in, carved birch with acrylic surface
  • Etched depths, bridges, and points of interest
  • Made to be used, wipes clean
  • Free next-business-day shipping on orders placed by 2 PM EST
  • 14-day returns
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