Bored With White Tableware (2011/12/02)
   Astier de Villatte, the French company known for delightfully imperfect white ceramic tableware, is adding color and graphics to its dishes, a result of a collaboration with John Derian. After almost 15 years, we were doing almost only white ceramics, said Ivan Pericoli, one of the founders of Astier de Villatte in 1996. It seemed natural to us, when we wanted to add images, to ask John, because he has a sensibility about color that is really close to ours.
   “I keep a kind of mental notebook of phrases that resonate in my mind,” said Rob Wynne, an artist who lives in Manhattan. “Some are made up, some come from reading or from being overheard.” Although most of Mr. Wynne’s work — drawings and sculptures made with materials like poured glass and thread — is shown in galleries, he recently produced a line of 19 dishwasher-safe plates. “I started making them as long as eight or nine years ago,” he said, “because I thought it would be nice to eat off them.” Each plate features one of those phrases, like “As I have already said, I had no real childhood,” pictured, “a snowstorm of flowers,” “the sound of butterflies” and “open your mouth and shut your eyes.”
   A single sheet of stainless steel molded into a seemingly random, asymmetrical form: that’s the minimalist look that defines Liquid, a new collection from Georg Jensen.
   The four pieces — three decorative bowls and a tray — were designed by Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou, founders of the Copenhagen design and architecture studio Space. They combined flowing lines with an ultrareflective finish to create the impression of rippling water, Ms. Henriksen said: “We wanted to create a modern series of bowls and trays that seek their origin in motifs and phenomena relating to nature, especially the soft flow of water, with its shifting and gentle reflections.” The bowls range in diameter from about 6 to 16 inches, and the tray , above, is about two feet long.
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