Mosaic magic.
Made by celebrated Brooklyn design team Bower, these optical illusion tiles will add a new dimension to your tabletop. Use them individually as coasters, or arrange them to form a patterned mosaic trivet. The geometry of the clean lines—in either black and white, black and beige, green, grey, and beige, or multi—allow for endless permutations and play.
Photography by Ty Mecham & Rocky Luten
Meet the Maker
AREAWARE
Columbus, OH
AREAWARE is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn based producer of everyday objects that are functional and unusual. They say they like to think they have a good sense of humor and that their objects are poetic—we agree. They are a forum for young and local talent and a strong voice for American design.
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Reviews for
Optic Table Tile Coasters (Set of 12)
Reviews for
Optic Table Tile Coasters (Set of 12)
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Great value
Great price for a set of 12, look great around the house and there are enough for us to keep them in multiple rooms.
Nice design, but sticks to the glass
Very nice design. They can be left on the table in a disorganized manner and still look great.
However, water at the base of the glass acts like a suction cup, and because these coaster are very light, they get lifted with the glass as you pick it up to drink... and fall halfway through..
Looks nice; functions terribly
Look nice, as pictured, but function terribly — wood actually swells a bit from the moisture, and they stick to the bottoms of wet glasses when I pick them up.
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