Category: Dining
Posted by James on 4/12/2005 9:24:00 PM
Glass tableware
 These glass plates, bowls and platters are handcrafted by Pittsburgh based Riverside Design Group of post-industrial / pre-consumer recycled glass.
There are 10 shapes / sizes which are available in 12 luminous colors and are made for every day use - food, dishwasher and microwave safe.
Link: Riverside Design Group
Via: Mettaefficient
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 4/7/2005 6:54:00 AM
A simple kit of parts
 We featured a different table called the Concord "plug table" a while back, but this design by Munich based designer Matthias Demacker is a totally different concept.
The form is elegantly simple, a table reduced to the minimum components. The top is made from compactforming HPL which can be made in any color. The tube steel legs can be removed by hand with no tools, and allow for two different table heights. The design also makes the table easily portable.
The table was given the Interior Innovation Award for Best Detail at the IMM 2005.
Link: Demacker Design [Thanks, Matthias!]
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Category: Dining
Posted by Anthony on 3/29/2005 4:53:00 PM
Your napkins will love them
 Browsing the Moss online store, we were smitten with these industrial looking, albeit pricey, sterling silver napking rings designed by Italian architect, Gabriele De Vecchi. For a cool $1275, this set of 6 rings can be yours as well.
For me, however, I think I'll stick with bicycle cogs and some silver Rustoleum.
Link: Modern Rings (Moss Online)
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 2/28/2005 11:51:00 PM
Scandinavian design by way of San Francisco
 Born in Finland, raised in Sweden and now residing in San Francisco, California, self-taught designer Lotta Jansson creates a range of beautiful screen-printed home products. Her colorful and fun designs include ceramics, table linens, bags, stationary and more.
Lotta has both a deep appreciation for nature’s limitless beauty and a love for modern urban style. The balance between these two worlds is unequivocally present in Lotta’s contemporary organic designs.
She started Lotta Jansdotter in 1996, and opened her San Francisco studio and store front in 2002. Lotta's designs are also available online and at retail stores around the world.
Link: Lotta Jansdotter
Via: urbanSPY
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 1/27/2005 4:38:00 PM
Home decor and accessories from Rios Clementi Hale Studios
 notNeutral is... well... not neutral. And not ashamed of it. A division of Los Angeles multi-disciplinary design firm Rios Clementi Hale Studios, notNeutral offers "confident, hip and streetwise products that express individuality and choice." It's kind of like the anti-Pottery Barn.
Their products offer a broad range of dinnerware, pillows, vases, children’s furniture, and home accessories of all kinds. It's funky groovy stuff, as if four decades of design and style have collided... and it works.
They have their own retail store on Melrose in Los Angeles, a web store, and are carried by specialty retailers.
Link: notNeutral
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 12/18/2004 8:57:00 PM
Set of 3 handcrafted Pyrex glasses
 We dig these funky glasses by Houston, Texas based Plodes Studio. At first glance we thought they were shot glasses (and we were thinking that Pyrex was a good choice of material to withstand slamming down on the bar), but they are actually 7 inches tall and 3 inches in diameter. Must've been that thick rim that threw us off... anyway, we liked them even more once we realized they were full sized glasses.
Glass is fluid too. These glasses are reminiscent in what they contain. DROOPLETS are handmade of strong Pyrex glass and are available in S, M, or L. The unique design also insulates hot or cold liquids. Use them rightside up or upside down.
Groovy.
Designer: John Paul Plauche
Link: Plodes Studio
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 12/12/2004 4:48:00 PM
Contemporary Danish Pottery
 These wonderful handmade ceramics by Copenhagen based Anne Black are well worthy of the fine tradition of contemporary Scandinavian design. There are currently two collections, "Tilt" tablewares and "Seam" interior accessories.
The products are porcelain cast in plaster forms or hand thrown and are glazed with non-toxic glazes. Many of the designs feature a graphic red silk screened design.
Beautiful.
Link: Anne Black
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Category: Dining
Posted by Anthony on 11/16/2004 2:58:00 PM
Contemporary bamboo home accessories
 Lately, it seems as if bamboo products are popping up everywhere and obviously for good reasons: It's a fantastic material to work with and it replenishes itself in half the time as other wood (yes, we know it's technically a grass). On that note, Ekobo has an entire product line crafted from bamboo. Trays, bowls, and stools to name just a few.
Made of eco-friendly bamboo, ekobo is a line of contemporary tableware designed in France and hand-crafted in Vietnam in respect of the rules of equitable commerce.
Designer: ekobo
Link: illico design [Thanks, Thomas!]
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Category: Dining
Posted by Anthony on 10/27/2004 3:00:00 PM
Lunchbox for grown-ups
 Unique package combining a plate, bowl, cup, utensils, and placemat.
"A personal plate, bowl, cup, and utensils, all snugly wrapped together in a desktop-sized placemat. This set of dishes expands your good-design sense to the office and stands with upright readiness next to a desk or in the communal kitchen cupboard. Made of high-heat malamine, the dishes add a touch of practical elegance to our takeout soup and sandwich."
Link: Vessel-Store
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Category: Dining
Posted by James on 10/19/2004 9:24:00 AM
Hand crafted wood table
 It's an aircraft carrier! It's a plane! No, it's a table!
We like the strong presence and wonderfully simple design of this piece by Staten Island based modern craftsman, James Murphy.
I try to build pieces that promote a sensation of balance through the use of subtle proportion and line as adornment.
Crafted of solid American walnut.
Link: James Murphy Design
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