dinnerware sets

Each setting within each set of eight (dinner plates, salad plates or pasta bowls) shows a star with a different number of points beginning with a 3-point star and going up to a 10-point star. For example, when you purchase a set of eight dinner plates, each plate will have a differently numbered star. If you purchase a complete service of 8 settings (24 pieces total), you will receive 8 matching settings showing 8 different stars. The thumbnails to the left show a 5-point setting, a 10-point setting and a 4-point setting. Our stock is constantly changing, so please give us a call if you're looking for pieces that are immediately available.

In the early 1980s, Sol LeWitt and his family bought a rustic farmhouse in Spoleto, Italy. While in Rome looking for new dishes, he and his wife, Carol, discovered that the maiolica pottery they so admired was made locally, almost in their backyard, in Deruta, Italy. The craftspeople in Deruta were continuing the more than 600 year old tradition of creating maiolica, a technique of applying a glossy base glaze whitened with tin oxide onto fired clay pottery. Vivid, hand-painted colors are then added and the pieces are fired again.

LeWitt designed his own dinnerware in Deruta and these same pieces are now available through Artware Editions in the full range of colors the artist intended. Each piece is made by hand by the same artisans who for generations have kept this proud and classic Italian tradition alive. This dinnerware is lead-free and dishwasher safe.

If we do not already have it in stock the fabrication time is approximately 12 weeks.

Laura Letinsky is an American contemporary photographer who has a long-standing engagement with the traditional genre of still-life painting. The images in her photographs show a collection of objects, some of which are found and some of which are made. Those that she makes reference actual objects in her life like the forms found in the Molosco collection of white, hand-painted porcelain tableware with gold trim. This collection of functional wares dates back to 2009 when the artist was in need for a perfect bowl for serving soup. Having studied both photography and ceramics she began to experiment with finding the right bowl form and then quickly expanded to include plates, cups, serving platters and more bowls, all of which she eventually incorporated into her photography.

Letinsky then joined forces with Jose Noé Suro Salceda, owner of Ceramicasuro, a porcelain producer in Guadalajara, who is also an avid art collector and has a history of collaborating with contemporary artists like Judy Ledgerwood, Arturo Herrerra, Liam Gillick, Marcel Dzama, and Jorge Pardo. Together he and Letinsky set out to make the Molosco collection that maintains Letinsky’s artistic vision while being entirely usable.

The Artists for PRFCT (2012 Edition) plate set features six bone china dinner plates designed by contemporary artists Teresita Fernandez, April Gornik, Mary Heilmann, Maya Lin, Richard Prince, and Ed Ruscha. In support of the global impact that comes from the Perfect Earth Project’s work, this group of internationally acclaimed, contemporary artists have each contributed an image to be reproduced on a functional dinner plate. These artists represent a diverse range of styles and genres; from painting and photography to sculpture and environmental art, and each design focuses on images inspired by the natural world. The set is a limited edition of 500 and made by Lenox China of the highest quality bone china. The set consists of six 11” dinner plates.

Laura Letinsky is an American contemporary photographer who has a long-standing engagement with the traditional genre of still-life painting. The images in her photographs show a collection of objects, some of which are found and some of which are made. Those that she makes reference actual objects in her life like the forms found in the Molosco collection of white, hand-painted porcelain tableware with gold trim. This collection of functional wares dates back to 2009 when the artist was in need for a perfect bowl for serving soup. Having studied both photography and ceramics she began to experiment with finding the right bowl form and then quickly expanded to include plates, cups, serving platters and more bowls, all of which she eventually incorporated into her photography.

Letinsky then joined forces with Jose Noé Suro Salceda, owner of Ceramicasuro, a porcelain producer in Guadalajara, who is also an avid art collector and has a history of collaborating with contemporary artists like Judy Ledgerwood, Arturo Herrerra, Liam Gillick, Marcel Dzama, and Jorge Pardo. Together he and Letinsky set out to make the Molosco collection that maintains Letinsky’s artistic vision while being entirely usable.

The images featured on these porcelain dinner plates with gold trim by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari are taken from Toiletpaper, the duos provocative, image-only magazine turned product purveyor. The plates are terrific as a set, but can also be purchased individually.

Dishwasher safe; do not microwave

This dinner service by Sophie Calle consists of six porcelain dinner plates fabricated by Bernardaud. Each plate tells a portion of a story told by Calle entitled, "The Pig." When read in sequence the story is told in full and makes for a unique dinner party experience. The verso of each plate shows details of the service, the artist's signature, and Bernardaud's stamp.

This service is available in French or English. Dishwasher safe.

The story reads:
It is a silly story. I was about thirty. A man phoned to say that he and I were making similar work and should meet. I always worry I might miss out on something so I agreed. When he arrived he told me his art consisted of stopping women in the street and asking them to sleep with him. Well, he said, wasn't one of my projects all about getting strangers to spend time in my bed? He told me he was taking me to a barbecue. I spent the whole evening playing the maid, grilling sausages, serving and cleaning up. Time goes by faster when you're busy. Later he dropped me off outside my door. He leaned into me and saught my lips. I pushed him away. "What makes you think I'd want to kiss you?" I protested. "Well, anyway," he answered, "you eat like a pig." Even today, after all these years, his words haunt me. I can't remember a thing about him, yet he's still sitting at my table.

This dinner service consists of six porcelain dinner plates designed by Prune Nourry and JR, and fabricated by Bernardaud. There are two each of three different designs that are printed on both sides of each plate. The verso of each plate shows details of the service, the artist's signature, and Bernardaud's stamp.

In the artist's own words:

"In this project, Prune and I wanted to focus on a man's most essential "tool," his hands, which can function as a drinking cup or as eating utensils. As Darwin put it: "Man could not have attained his present dominant position in the world without the use of his hands." Here, our hands have been photographed.... Prune and I live in New York where we initiated a community of artists that holds big dinners every month. Everybody cooks, everybody brings something. The dinner table is a nerve center where we share a taste for good things, the art of living well!

This limited edition of six porcelain dinner plates features six black or red mobiles Alexander Calder made in the 1940s and 1950s. This set was fabricated in close tandem with the Calder Foundation and comes in a presentation box with a certificate of authenticity issued by Bernardaud, the famed porcelain maker from Limoges, France.

This set of four porcelain dinner plates features Andy Warhol's iconic Campbell's Soup can imagery.  Each plate is boxed in an individual custom box so you can keep them as a set or split them up for gifting.  The verso shows details about the plate and the artist's stamped signature. Fabricated in Limoges, France in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Marina Abramović has said about this limited edition tableware:

‘‘For my project with Bernardaud, I created two sets of tableware, which I call Misfits because they do not match each other. Each set has different sized plates that var yin shape and pattern.
Together, these two sets can be combined for a misfit dinner for two or one set can be used to serve a lonely dinner for one.’’

Abramović created her limited edition four-piece porcelain plate sets for Bernardaud with each motif closely reflecting her personal life. Each set includes a small bread plate featuring the artist's own family crest and a dinner plate adorned with a detail from her artwork Golden Lips (2009). The star-shaped dish represents the communist star, a symbol that was ever-present in Abramović's childhood and life in ex-Yugoslavia. The golden serving platter was conceived as a counterpart to the star and represents the sun.

Manufactured in Limoges by Bernardaud, each buffet plate from this set has been cut in half and relating to the artist’s classical works of sliced violins, cellos, and other objects.

Each plate is signed and numbered and manufacture in Limoges by Bernaurdaud. Originally available in all white, and cobalt blue and white.

Cindy Sherman has created this Limoges porcelain dinner service in a limited edition after the original design commissioned by Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson) in 1756 at the Manufacture Royale de Sevres.

The self-portrait image of the artist as Madame de Pompadour has been transferred onto porcelain through a complex process which requires up to 16 photo-silkscreens. Each dinner plate is silk-screened and painted at Ancienne Manufacture Royale.

This dinner service is available in four traditional 18th - century colors: apple green, rose, royal blue, and yellow (sold out). Each color is in an edition of 75.

John Chamberlain designed this salad bowl with six buffet plates in 1996. Made of white porcelain and hand decorated with copper, silver, and gold trim, each of the pieces is based on a different machine part: the salad bowl was cast from a transmission cover and the plates are based on flywheels. Chamberlain never made the conscious distinction between art and design. and this edition is further evidence of this belief.

Each piece bears a stamp with the artist’s signature and production information and is hand-etched with the edition number.

JOSEPH KOSUTH has created a 42 piece dinner service entitled "Forme Appliquee (Historique)", that consists of six unique patterns which reflect the 200 year history of Limoges' porcelain production. All original decoration has been removed and replaced with the name of the pattern and the date when the service first appeared. This information is placed on each of the seven pieces of the plate setting in the artist's chosen typeface, Copperplate Gothic Bold Extended.

The dinner service, which is manufactured in Limoges, comes in two versions: black letters on white porcelain, or platinum letters on black porcelain. Each color version is limited to an edition size of 75 and is signed and numbered.

JOSEPH KOSUTH has created a buffet service entitled "Forme Appliquee (Historique)", that consists of six unique patterns which reflect the 200 year history of Limoges' porcelain production. All original decoration has been removed and replaced with the name of the pattern and the date when the service first appeared. This information is placed on the rim of the plate in the artist's chosen typeface, Copperplate Gothic Bold Extended.

The six buffet plates manufactured in Limoges originally came in two versions: black letters on white porcelain and platinum letters on black porcelain (sold out). Only the white version is still available. Each color version is limited to an edition size of 200 and is signed and numbered.