One of my favorite events is coming up, the Fall New York Tabletop Market, which presents the best of new tableware. It brings me to think about my planning the table of my upcoming dinner next week in celebrating the New Year. 21 people are going to sit around the table and it will be a celebration of white tableware. Also known as whiteware, is it becoming increasingly sophisticated and interesting. Designers are exploring sculptural and unorthodox forms that revisit the entire notion of white tableware. The result is extraordinary dining possibilities. Setting a dining table is one of the most accessible ways to express one's personal taste. However, nothing dresses up a table like cutting edge, sophisticated whiteware to complement a contemporary lifestyle.
craft and industry. It was sold in 2007 at Sotheby’s sale of “‘Deutscher Werkbund to Bauhaus: An Important Collection of German Design,” for $361K, breaking the sale record for Brandt.
During the Depression years, American tableware manufacturers commissioned industrial designers to create affordable products of modern sleek style and new materials such as Bakelite, Formica, and chromium-plated metals. The Chase Brass and Copper Company commissioned Russel Wright and Walter von Nessen to create objects in chromium-plated metal and machine-age aesthetics to replace silver. The Fostoria Glass Company hired George Sakier to create modern glassware, which was affordable in the 30s, and is now sought-after by collectors.
I am delighted to finally open my small design store, a source for discovering beautiful, affordable, great design objects, all created by those designers I love and respect. Whenever I use one of these cheese boards at my dinner parties, I always get tons of complements, thus I have chosen to offer them at my design store. They are crafted by Yoav S. Liberman, a trained architect who has devoted his career to woodworking. He is writing about wood, teaching woodworking, and has developed a thorough philosophy, according to which wood is a renewable material. What I love about his handcrafted cheese boards is not only their unusual and stylish forms, but also the fact that each one is crafted of salvaged wood, of pieces of wood that otherwise would have found their way into the fireplace. Under Yoav’s talented and skillful hands, these boards are acquired a new life, each is distinguished, each is unique, and their forms are determined by the natural property of the wood.