Passe-Partout Rectangular Wood Tray

The Passe-Partout Rectangular Tray by Vincent Van Duysen for Serax is a study in purposeful simplicity. Crafted from solid carbonized ash wood and finished with a matte oil treatment, it carries the quiet authority of a piece designed by one of Belgium's most celebrated architects. The name says it all: this is a tray that belongs everywhere. Van Duysen's design philosophy has always centered on reducing objects to their essential truth, stripping away anything that doesn't serve. The result here is a tray with a natural warmth that works just as beautifully laid with cheese and bread at a dinner party as it does holding morning coffee things on a kitchen counter.