INSPIRE / SHOWCASE

Have your cake and eat the dish it is served in too! sugiX’s design will spare you dishes and a thought to the environment.

Crunchy munchy

Japanese company Wasara presents sustainable, single use paper tableware. And it’s rather stylish.

Paper crockery

Porcelain master David Walters has created select crockery and other pieces for top South African restaurants.

Classy cuisine and ceramics

Chef Reuben Riffel has collaborated with Ngwenya Glass to create a gorgeous range of glassware.

Raise your glasses

Naoto Fukasawa’s new cookware range for Alessi is inspired by man’s best friend.

Best friends

Marcel Wanders has designed a fab new range of tableware for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines

Elegance in the air

Hang Around and Toss Around brings fine Scandinavian craftsmanship to kitchen utensils.

Hang here, toss there

Marcel Wanders's Dressed range of cutlery and crockery for Alessi manages to be minimalist and gorgeously ornate at the same time.

Wine me, dine me at Milan2011

Jaime Hayón’s new range of porcelain tableware emphasises the value of gathering around a dinner table with friends and family.

Table talk

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Bookish

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Calling all book lovers! Take a look at this collection of interesting and alternative bookcases.

Highlights from Milan Design Week 2011

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Looking back at some of the highlights of the 2011 Milan Design Week when the International Furniture Fair celebrated its 50th anniversary.

Table Manners

As objects with an every day use, tableware must be functional but users also demand that it be stylish.

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Product Design

In some form or another, people across all cultures use tableware. One might say it has universal appeal. With it being in such wide use, it makes sense that the designs and materials for table ware are limitless. From dinner plates to forks to glasses to salad bowls and teacups, here are some of our favourite table ware designs.