Dessert plates chip at the rim long before anything else in a set does. This box holds twelve of them, up to 8 inches across, separated by felt protectors, inside red canvas finished with green trim. The lid lifts away entirely instead of hinging back.
Sheets of felt come with the box and sit between the plates so glaze never grinds against glaze, which is the contact that produces chips and hairline cracks over years of stacking. Because the protectors stay with the box rather than being improvised from paper towels each December, the same twelve plates come out intact season after season.
The lid is not hinged: it comes off completely, leaving the whole mouth of the box open while plates are loaded two-handed. A see-through front panel confirms what is stored without any opening at all, which is useful when a column of identical seasonal containers sits above eye level on a closet shelf.
At 8.5 inches high and 9 inches on both other sides, the box comes close enough to a cube to stack in a column with no overhang, and the frame is built to take the weight of another above it. Riveted handles support up to 25 pounds, so a loaded box travels by its grips rather than by a hand under the base.
Six-piece black magnet set of four hinges and two handles that gives a steel garage door carriage-house detailing.
Six forest green fabric cubes with grommet pulls, each 11 inches square for standard cube shelving.
