Posted by Jen
Shows | 25 Aug 08 | Comments (0) | Stumble
Last week we braved the New York Gift Fair, which turned up a number of great discoveries. Among our top picks was Teroforma, a just-launched, Connecticut-based manufacturer of sleek modern tableware headed up by husband-wife team Andrew and Anna Hellman. The company has tapped a global roster of 22 artisans—from the Czech Republic’s Roman Vrtiska to Portugal’s Jose Joaquim Ribeiro—to create elegant mix-and-match-able linens, china, flatware, and crystal fit for the high-design dining table. We flipped for the sublimely streamlined profiles but also the company’s noble conceit: pairing emerging designers with talented master craftspeople working in locales as far-flung as Slovenia and northern China. Shown above are the forms used to make bone-china plates.
Bone china service with hand-painted fern pattern by Maria Lintott
Bone china service with hand-painted fern pattern by Maria Lintott
Polish-born German designer Anna Dabrowski’s leaf-shaped merino-wool felt coasters and trivets
Polished stainless-steel flatware by Portuguese talent Jose Joaquim Ribeiro
Czech designer Jan Knotek’s tumblers in mouth-blown, lead-free crystal
