Gift Fair: Modular Servingware from Menu

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This collection of modular porcelain dishware is from designer Christian Bjorn for Menu — the same Danish company that brought us Henriette Melchiorsen's Rubber Vase. These dishes are elegant enough for serving and practical enough for prep and storage — they can be used in the freezer, oven, refrigerator and are both microwave and dishwasher safe.

The black silicon feet on each dish allows one to take a dish straight from the oven on to a table without a trivet. In the fifth picture, you can see that two dishes can be stacked with tealights to help keep food hot.

Though we love the Adonde modular dinnerware, we find this small collection from Menu to be much more practical. Three different sizes will be available.

Comments (9)

Brilliant. I love these. But they'd need a lid to go in the freezer or fridge.

posted by kelleyk on January 28th 2009 at 11:38am
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What does "gift fair" mean?
to me it implies that I can enter to win this.. which would be neat because they look really nice and really useful. I'd say no lid is fine. A bit of plastic wrap is easier to find than the matching lid.

perhaps you guys should change the spelling to "gift fare" if you aren't going to send me some.

posted by antimatt on January 28th 2009 at 11:59am
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Oh please tell me there are lids?????

posted by kdear on January 28th 2009 at 12:16pm
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They look a bit like pet food dishes... albeit very pretty ones.

posted by JH4285 on January 28th 2009 at 12:25pm
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I add my request for lids. Then they'd be perfect.

posted by brittanykate on January 28th 2009 at 12:27pm
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Ha! I was thinking they looked like pet food dishes too!

posted by jooly on January 28th 2009 at 2:18pm
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Definitely feeling the pet food dish vibe...

I prefer the Programma 8 series of modular dishes by Alessi: http://www.unicahome.com/p17616/programma-8-sets-by-alessi.html

posted by Kathryn on January 28th 2009 at 4:18pm
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Clever concept. The collection is to bring food from the oven to the table not for food storage; this is why they is no lids. You can even stack them for heating into the stove: a true timer saver for big parties - no need for two stoves. I will spotlight the collection.

antimatt: gift fair refers to the trade show (it is for the gift stores) called Gift Fair that was at the Javits Center.

posted by At Home with kim vallee on January 29th 2009 at 2:18pm
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Are these for sale anywhere? I followed the links from the article (and am probably missing something obvious) but none of them seemed to lead to pricing, etc.

posted by Funfurde on January 30th 2009 at 3:10pm
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