Bobby Berk Quotes

I love Anthropology for kitchenware - they make the best bowls, plates, cutlery etc.

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with my kitchen, or my house, I'm all about it. I'm working on a sauce line, so that's kind of exciting. I'm a saucier.

I love collecting market stuff in Mexico. I have an etagere built onto the wall of my living room, which has cubicles that are lit and filled with super inexpensive pottery. You see them in a new way; they become museum pieces.

Even if you don't have any dishes, you need a celery dish.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

I made some salt and pepper shakers a while back and waited three years for them to come.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

I'm always traveling, so I tend to online shop. My go-to sites are Net-a-Porter and Matches. I recently moved to N.Y.C. and frequently shop at Sur La Table for my kitchen; Flair home collection, Aedes de Venustas for all my favorite home fragrances.

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

I always give a lot of importance to the cups.

I've been a fan and collector of Lucie Rie for years.

If you have a guy over, and there's a whole bunch of china from your wedding, it's not a good idea.

I have a lot of Missoni tablecloths, but for breakfast, we use placemats - we call them 'American-style.' I have some in crazy patterns from the Swedish brand Svenskt Tenn. And I like plates from Grottaglie in Puglia, stained in wild colors.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?

There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'

Find yourself a cup; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.