Tag: tabletop & servingware | Apartment Therapy

Survey: Assigned Seating at the Holiday Table?

Thanksgiving is fast approaching. And given that it's also Entertaining Month on Apartment Therapy, it seemed an appropriate time to see how you feel about assigned seating for dinner parties or h...

Serene Ceramics by Emogayu

If Haiku were a three-dimensional art form, Japanese artist Yuri Fukuda (a.k.a. Emogayu) would be a master of it. A recent exhibit at the Archip Gallery Theater in Brooklyn, New York featured the ar...

Beer-Cycle Bottle Opener by Raphael Betillon

Combining two of our favorite things (bikes & beer!), French architect Raphael Betillon takes forks from old bicycles found in junkyards or bike cemeteries, cuts them in half and repurposes the ...

Coral Just Won't Die: New From Chilewich

Actually, that's fine with us. Especially if any new incarnations are as subtle (read: not coral-color red!) and classy as the new pressed vinyl designs from Chilewich....

Survey: Do You Use Your Wedding China?

We were talking with friends the other night about dinner parties and how even the most formal of events seemed to have gone casual in our houses. Our friend Jen talked about never ever using her w...

Roundup: Graphic Stripe China & Glassware

We received a pair of wine glasses designed by Josef Hoffmann as a wedding present and they have remained one our most treasured possessions. Stripes can look beautiful and refined or playful and q...

Fundamentals of Makkum Ceramic Tableware

Dutch ceramics company Royal Tichelaar Makkum is working with the designers from Atelier NL in their newest project — a collection of simple pottery made from clay dug from different areas of ...

Cornishware Returns to Market

British tabletop classic Cornishware has been reborn! First produced in the 1920s by T.G.Green & Co, the company that made the collectible blue and white pottery classics (named for the blue sky and...

Classic French Insulated Teapots

This time of year we almost drink more tea than in winter — especially with the weather not being able to make up its mind. We have two vintage insulated French teapots we adore (one steel, o...

Modern Delftware by Wendy McLachlan

Something old, something new... it's always interesting when someone takes a traditional look and puts a new spin on it. Wendy McLachlan's South African ceramics studio, Homebakes, slip-casts white...

Making Mismatched Glassware Work
Inspiration from Demelza Hill

If you're like us and collect stray dinnerware and chairs from ebay, craigslist and flea markets, here's some inspiration on how to pull them together as a set. Demelza Hill, a product designer wit...

Table Dressing: Loop Candelabra by black+blum

We're not hosting Thanksgiving this year but if we were, this would definitely be our centerpiece. Inspired by the Fibonacci curve found in nature, the Loop Candelabra is that rare collision of simp...

Table Dressing: Chilewich Pressed Vinyl Dots

We've never been too big on table decor in our home but we've also never had much of a table to decorate. That all changed this year when we inherited a magnificent 6-person Danish dining table and ...

Mae Mougin Ceramics

Its great when typically overlooked parts of things become extraordinary. Like the hand shaped and paddled edges on these ceramic pieces by Mae Mougin Ceramics. We had first read about her work in ...