Filed under the category of “good, knock-you-out design doesn’t have to mean expensive” are these brilliant Cedar Boat Trays we saw the other day at Canoe (1136 SW Alder). Each of these elegant trays is a single piece of wood sliced terrifically thinly, the ends folded in to make its boat shape. We love them for their simplicity and their foregrounding of the wood’s grain.
These are the kinds of little vessels that can bring not just order but beauty to the necessary Million Little Things from change, to shells, to paper clips with which our lives, desks, bureau-tops are filled. They’d also make great containers for gifts. Craig tells us, “We’ve even sold these to customers for cooking—someone poached halibut for their bridge club in them!” And the three sizes that range from a little handful to two handfuls are priced between 40 and 75 cents. Take two, they’re small.
