Tableware Trend Analyst
Donna Ferrari
In the spotlight Trend-watching columnist Donna Ferrari shines a spotlight on some of the latest tableware trends: new-fashioned gold designs, modish monochrome and kaleidoscopic palettes, the fresh fancy for florals, and the FaceTime-esque riffs for tabletop. Moreover, the trend many of the new patterns share in traversing worldwide cultures and tributes to Mother Earth…
Making faces
ibride
Donna Ferrari has worked in magazine publishing for over thirty years. As a consumer magazine editor she specialised in the tableware, homeware and bridal markets, and styled and produced stories related to bridal gift registry, wedding reception design and at-home entertaining. Personally, she has eleven different sets of dinnerware and closets dedicated just to tabletop accessories; she says she loves not ever having to set her table the same way twice.
Expressive visages, portrayed in prints, drawings, and sculpturally, are among the newest trends in imagery used on tableware. At first glance the faces make artful designs but looking closer they silently hint to the stories behind their countenances. From ibride, the Parnasse tableware collection, a name tracing to ancient Greece, and designed by Rachel Convers, contemplates statues in parks that, in time, are reclaimed by nature. Ginori 1735’s Il Viaggio Di Nettuno sea of tableware and decorative accent pieces, created in collaboration with artist Luke Edward Hall, reflect his fascination with characters from Greco-Roman mythology. Pip Studio’s Heritage collection, conceived by the brand’s founder Anke van der Endt —nicknamed Pip, is decorated with a montage of picturesque images that combine to illustrate the story of her parent’s courtship in two different lands — Indonesia and Netherlands. From Serax, the Face plate is one of the many choices of lively, colour-rich, mixable patterns in the Feast Tableware by Ottolenghi collection, imagined by guru vegetarian chef, Yotam Ottolenghi, with artist Ivo Bisignano. Carrol Boyes’s animates her Sketchbook tableware with the group of portraits she’s created — like this one tagged, Eye-for-Detail. Anthropologie helps face the day with its sculpturally modernistic Aoife tea or coffee mug. Rosenthal meets Versace’s new Medusa Amplified collection places the legendary face center stage — available in four colourways.
Pip Studio
Anthropologie
Carrol Boyes
Ginori 1735 32 TABLEWARE INTERNATIONAL
Serax
