Tableware Quotes

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

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

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.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

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

I love a good set of basic white dishes.

Ah, Meese has brought us her finest goblets! A moment, whilst Kruppe sweeps out cobwebs, insect husks and other assorted proofs of said goblets' treasured value.

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

Table the label and wear your own name.

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

A restaurant is a compendium of choices that the owner has made. If you look around a restaurant, everything represents a choice: the kind of salt shaker that's on the table, the art on the walls, the uniforms on the waiters.

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

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

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 always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.

What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

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.

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

I always give a lot of importance to the cups.