Apartment Therapy: glassware & ceramic

Architecture as Design Inspiration
Roundup

Yes, the architecture of a home inspires the interior design of the home, but in our age of modern and postmodern cleverness, architecture as a motif also inspires product designers... ...

Entertainingly Entertaining Serving Pieces

November is the start of the party season and that makes us both excited and a tad bit nervous. We love throwing dinner parties (and attending them too!) so this year we wanted to make sure our par...

Kelly Wearstler's New Dinnerware Collection

"Maximalist" Kelly Wearstler released a bedding line earlier this year, and now she lends her bold style to another are of the home: fine bone china. ...

Beverly's Beach House Kitchen
Room for Color - South #7

To Room for Color Contest Page and All Entries Name: Beverly Location: Highlands, North Carolina Type of Home: beach house Color Inspiration: I wanted to add a splash of color to an all white k...

Prismatic Glass Drawer-Knobs by Tracy Glover

Rhode Island artist Tracy Glover shows us her new glass drawer- and doorknobs, tells us how she used them to warm up a modern dresser and talks about the importance of craft in the home....

Collections: Fiesta Dinnerware!

You collect them, your mom collected them, your grandmother collected them: Fiesta dishes are attractive, functional and down-right American. Collections of multi-colored Fiesta dinnerware are also ...

Torpedo Factory Art Center
Old Town Alexandria, Virginia

The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Old Town Alexandria was built in 1918 as a US Naval Torpedo station. The factory briefly produced torpedoes then was used as a storage facility. Since the 1970's, ...

Survey: Glass-Breaking Etiquette?

We've all been there: you're visiting a friend's home, having a glass of wine, and then it happens — you break the glass. The question is, do you replace or do you not replace? Especially if i...

Edgy Urban Toile from Timorous Beasties

If you're looking for fair maidens frolicking in the countryside or courted by lads in tight knickers, you had better stick with your Toile de Jouy. However, for those interested in a more provocativ...

Roundup: Unique Bud Vases

Nature is hard to improve upon, but when it comes to displaying spring's smallest treasures, we love a good bud vase. Here's a few of our favorite picks that look equally fresh displayed individuall...

Roundup: Ginkgo Decor

One of the things we love most about Washington is the luscious variety of trees that call the area home. Our favorite is the Ginkgo tree, one of the oldest species on the planet, and one of the mos...

Coffee & the Works Inc.

Coffee & the Works is a small kitchen accessories store located North of Dupont Circle. The store is filled from top to bottom with kitchen wares, coffee, tea, and chocolate. Coffee & the Wor...

Searching For: Neutral Dishes with Interest

It's the last day of Kitchen & Bath month here at Apartment Therapy, and I thought we'd talk about one of the finishing touches to any kitchen — dishes. I have searched high and low for th...

Inspiration: Rainbow Bright

An arrangement of multicolored tumblers caught our eye a few weeks ago and we started thinking about the many ways that one can arrange objects in a home in ROYGBIV order to create an eye-catching d...

Painting Pottery with Designer Inspiration

For some reason, the recession has left one Atlanta market strangely untouched — there is a paint-your-own pottery shop in every quaint strip of shops in the Atlanta area. In honor of DIY mont...

Look! Table Manners Dinnerware by Willie Tsang

Twenty Past Four designed by Willie Tsang comes with this helpful quotation on the plate “Place you utensils in the dotted lines when finished”......

Ceramic Dishes by Cul de Sac

These ceramic dishes by Cul de Sac come in a variety of colors (blues, greens, and pink) and patterns. We love that each dish shapes echoes the shape of the picture. The dishes are food, oven, and d...