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Love, distilled to a single word. Rendered in sweeping black script, this tray feels like a handwritten note left on the kitchen table, intimate, confident, and meant to be seen every day. It is romantic without being precious, classic without feeling fixed in time, a quiet declaration that lingers long after you’ve passed by.
Handcrafted in our New York City studio using the traditional French art of decoupage, this bent-glass tray is made one at a time, layering calligraphic imagery beneath glass and firing it into permanence. The result is luminous and tactile, with subtle variations that make each piece feel personal. Every tray is individually signed by Ben, a mark of authorship and intention that anchors it firmly in the Ben’s Garden world of charming, unusual objects.
Designed to be both beautiful and useful, the tray is food safe, wipe clean, and finished with a felted back. It can live flat on a tabletop, stand elegantly on a gallery easel, or hang on the wall with a plate hanger as a small, meaningful work of art. Each piece arrives with a folded card explaining the time-honored decoupage process.
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Style No. DPI-346
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The French call it découpage, pronounced day-coo-pahzh. It flourished in the salons of 18th-century France, where paper, patience, and a steady hand turned everyday objects into works of art.
Ben honors the French technique, in reverse. The artwork goes on the underside of the glass, by hand, so you look through the glass to see it. Nothing sits on the surface. The image seems to float, lit from within, the way a pressed flower looks when you hold it up to a window.
Every design starts with something Ben discovered or created. A pattern he drew. A botanical plate or a scrap of antique paper carried home from a market in Europe, chosen because it meant something.
Decoupage is a science of perfection. Each piece is made slowly in our New York studios by a talented team of artists, patient and exacting, who will not settle for less than a perfect result. Each one is backed in felt, so it can rest safely on a cocktail table, and signed by the artist, Ben Busko.
Each tray is decoupaged by hand beneath the glass. A little care keeps the artwork beautiful.
Suitable for hanging with a plate hanger or standing on a gallery easel.
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