Graffiti in home decor can look like a gimmicky attempt to make your home seem more urban cool. It's difficult to know when and where graffiti can be used properly. They last place you would expect to see street art is on fine china and that's what makes these sets genuinely urban cool.
China sets are rooted in the traditional. They are a right of passage. Most people receive their sets as wedding gifts and these treasures become a symbol for the new family you creating. The choice of patterns can be deeply steeped in family heritage, making a more traditional choices the norm in many cases.
So, buying a china set with graffiti instead of florals makes a bold statement about the kind of house you want to run and what kind of family you are creating. If your chosen family is non-traditional, why not honor it with an avant-garde china pattern!
Shown above:
1. Happy Serendipity
2. Xantifee
3. Deemah
4. Das neue Porzellan
5. 4 Design
Check out Dirk Kels for more street art china patterns.
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I like graffiti style art, but I'm not into these. They remind me of make-a-plates.
There's so much ugliness and graffiti in the world already - Why would anyone bring it into their home on a dinner plate?
Oh, look, Hot Topic is expanding into homewares!
I love graffiti done well -- but this is silly...not to mention a bit counter to the culture...
These "patterns" are giving me a serious case of bitchface as we speak.
It probably would be intended humorously, which is going pretty far for a joke.
I completely love the New York Delft. The others don't appeal at all.
Wow! I love them! I've always been fond of mix-and-matching patterns heavy with connotations, and this is one of the finest examples I've come across!
Cheer up people, why should one make the point that this is far-fetched and counter to the culture, _exactly_ when it is made to be far-fetched and counter to the culture? Even if it is too unconventional for you, it was never intended to be conventional. I personally love them even more for smashing the stereotype the post talks about in style.
Because, you know, the people who make graffiti are just doing it so rich people can turn their culture into expensive china...
No thanks, not my cup of tea.
I agree with tulpoeid! Personally, I love the first and second ones! The colors are fantastic!
katie_l, designers and artists have been appropriating and exchanging visual culture for centuries, if not millennia. Graffiti art is in museums now; why not in fine design as well?
Lots of that bothers me as well, but what makes this particularly irritating to me is the origins of graffiti as an art form for people in disenfranchised communities and the fact that it's being put on one of the ultimate upper-class consumer objects (one that serves no essential purpose to boot). The juxtaposition seems tastelessly Marie Antoinette to me.