What Our Keepsake Is Made Of — And Why We Say It Plainly

Let us start with the plain sentence: this keepsake is made of high-clarity glass — not natural quartz crystal. It is 20 mm thick, your photograph is sealed between two layers, and each piece is finished and inspected by hand.

Why glass, and not something else

Natural quartz cannot make this piece. At 20 mm thick, made one at a time from your own photograph, quartz either will not grind flat or grinds away entirely in the process, and hand-finishing does not rescue it. The material that can actually be produced at this thickness and this clarity is glass. So glass is what we use, and glass is what we call it.

We are not going to wrap it in a more expensive-sounding name. What you pay for here is the construction and the hand finishing — not a material label that sounds better than it is.

The structure: glass, image, glass

Your photograph sits between two substantial layers. Everyday handling, wiping and moving touches the glass, not the image. The cheaper alternative is a full-color layer printed on the surface or stuck on the back — a layer that can be scratched away with a fingernail. Ours is not on the surface at all.

The fine line on the edge

Look at the edge and you will see a fine line where the two layers meet. That is not a flaw — it is the structure itself, and it is the reason your photograph stays protected inside. We are not going to hide it.

What that buys you

Two practical things follow. The piece reads clearly from the front and from the back, so it does not have to face a wall — it can stand in the middle of a room. And because the image is not sitting on a surface, daily handling does not wear it away. That is the real reason this format lasts.

Size and weight

7.9″ / 200 mm across, 20 mm thick, and 1.8 kg (3.98 lb) net weight with its solid wood base — before packaging. You feel it the moment you pick it up.