fun serveware

"This tray is inspired by the glistening rock crystals I admired so much when, as a boy, I would accompany my father who was a miner," says Felipe Girón with nostalgic pride. He crafts the tray by hand by painting on glass arching bands of blue, turquoise, golden yellow and violet.

Reverse-painted glass, introduced to Peru in the 17th century, is now a revered Peruvian art form. The Ortiz Family brings to this craft a unique conflux of influences. Their repetitive geometrical and symmetrical patterns owe their origins to Inca pottery, but their coloration is drawn from the multi-hued blue and gold tiles found in North Africa and Spain. Our glass-topped wooden tray is handcrafted in the family’s workshop in Peru.