Photo frame trali

Made with briar inlaid by an Italian heritage workshop in a small village near Bergamo, this picture frame carries the stillness of craftsmanship passed through generations.

It is a keeper of fragments, a photograph, a pressed flower from a wedding bouquet, a ticket stub from a first date, a programme folded and carried home after opening night. Within its proportions, for a picture or object fitting in the 13 × 18 cm space, the private becomes visible, the fleeting is held and love will last.

Placed on a desk, by the bed, or against the wall on a shelf, it lends the room a kind of resonance: the shape of a life distilled into an object that waits, quietly, to be seen. A frame is never only a frame; it is a boundary that gathers memory and gives it permanence.