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At the edge of a desk, a drawer tray collects what the day requires: a pen, a few cards, something small that would otherwise migrate to the wrong side of the room. The Raico Desk Tray Drawer approaches this familiar problem with materials that have no business being in a desk organizer. The aluminium is 2024-T3, an aerospace-grade alloy more commonly found in aircraft structural components than in home office furniture, finished here in a VOC-free powder coating that sits quietly rather than announces itself.
The four compartments are proportioned for actual desk objects rather than idealized ones, and the cork base does two things at once: it absorbs the friction of sliding movement so the tray doesn't mark the desk surface, and it carries hand-painted Japanese calligraphy ink applied during assembly. That last detail is easy to overlook in a photograph. In person it reads as the kind of thing a manufacturer includes when they've already solved the functional problems and have attention left over for something else.
Raico designed this tray to nest under their desk shelf, which means it disappears when not in use and reappears when needed, a small behavioral shift that turns a flat desk into something with actual depth and order. The hand-assembly is apparent in the way the cork and aluminium meet at the corners, flush without being mechanical about it.
This is for the person who has already decided that the objects on their desk should be worth looking at, not just useful. The tray doesn't ask for notice. It simply holds what needs holding, and does it with materials that will outlast the routine they're built to support.
