Base Organiser

Every bench, desk and hallway table collects the same drift of small objects — keys, fixings, cable ends, spare batteries, the odd button that came off something. This is the plain open tray that gathers them up. Nothing about it is decorative. It is a foundation piece, an unfussy container meant to sit underneath the clutter of daily life and give it somewhere to live. The appeal is how many jobs it will take. It works on a workshop bench holding fasteners, on a games table corralling dice and tokens, inside a drawer as a divider, or by the front door as an overnight drop point for pocket contents. Printed as a single piece, it is the sort of thing makers run off again and again, one per category of mess, until every surface in the house has one. Straightforward, useful, and about as far from a novelty print as it gets.