Manhole Cover Coasters: Philadelphia Phever
Manhole Cover Coasters: Philadelphia Phever
Have Philadelphia Phever? We do! The city is our home base and these manhole covers can be found all within blocks of our studio. The Bell has the Ma Bell standard hexagonal motif, but with an altered nod to our Liberty Bell. The Septa cover provides access to the utilities for the local transportation system that everyone loves. A local electric provider where some of the energy comes from coal and nuclear for some solid 20th-century thinking & KTCo was a telephone company that was acquired by AT&T in the 1960s, but its cover is still doing its job. Cheers.
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Tombino replicates manhole covers from around the world into functional art in the form of coasters, trivets and magnets. Each illustration is initially hand-drawn for precision and then permanently etched into cork. These make the perfect birthday or holiday gift. Each coaster is .25" thick and 4" in diameter. The engraving method has incredible detail and tactility. Fabricated from sustainable Portuguese cork. Designed and packaged in Philadelphia, PA USA.
Cork is a natural material, thus rare aberrations within the etching can occur, but at this scale good luck noticing.
As each one is made to order please allow three business days for delivery.
“We all have three cities: the one in which we grew up, the one where we live and the one in which we wished we live."-Alan Furst
A custom display rack can be ordered too. See the individual trivets and magnets as well.
