The Zen and Tavola dinnerware sets are two distinctive shapes available from 10 Strawberry Street. Tavola has a beautiful sloping rim that enhances food presentation and ensures that the entrée is the main focal point. Zen is a trapezoid shape with a modern feel. The plates are flat with no rim and provide a unique palette for any presentation. Both shapes are made of porcelain and available in all standard sizes, including bowl and cup/saucer.
Square shapes with a beveled edge and soft round corners make the Annapurna pattern a transitional shape that can be dressed up for formal dining or equally at home in a contemporary casual dining atmosphere. The soft cream color will accentuate every chef’s creations. Honoring Alexander Girard’s centenary birth, BIA and the Museum of New Mexico present the Museo Mundo collection of dinnerware designed by Mimi Robinson and inspired by Girard’s folk art collection donated to the museum. The black-and-white designs can be mixed and matched to create different table settings and moods by alternating solid colors with patterns.
Reflections
Libbey/Syracuse China
CONTACT: 419-325-2288, www.libbey.com
Designed for versatility and style, Reflections Arch dinnerware from Syracuse China, featuring curve and countercurve shapes, is well-suited to today’s mix-and-match trend. Reflections Arch line is made up of 14 items, including three softly sculpted, leaf-shaped platters; a unique bow-shaped platter; and wok-shaped, stackable bowls. Three popular plate sizes have gently arched rims. The pieces are twice fired for increased durability and come with a polished foot to reduce scratching and a three-year, no-chip warranty.
Turgla’s imported European porcelain fuses simple elegance with everyday functionality and a variety of lines and styles to fit service requirements and preferences across the board. Unique patterns lend a level of sophistication to any plating. All products are dishwasher and microwave safe and easily stored. This lowmaintenance durable dinnerware with striking visual appeal will impress guests at cost-effective prices.
Softly textured border motif, designed to catch the shimmer of restaurant light, accentuates the translucent glow and subtle well shape of Fortessa’s Aurora bone china dinnerware. Other pieces include pasta bowl and rim soup, with scooped-out inner surface for serving facility, along with stackable bouillon and coffee cups. From Fortessa’s Carina series in creamy-white bone china, the shapely designs come in a range of sizes, with matching pasta bowl, rim soup/fruit bowls, bouillon cup, and stackable cups/saucers.
Bauscher USA has added Tafelstern professional porcelain to its portfolio. Tafelstern’s range is composed of more than 20 collections of brilliant white and cream-colored hard porcelain. In the upscale hospitality industry, the forms and concepts of Tafelstern reflect high quality. The emphasis of Tafelstern lies on the guests’ emotional experience of sophisticated table culture.
Steelite International introduces the Spyro range of contemporary dinnerware. Inspired by the flowing lines found in nature, Spyro forms a sweeping rim surrounding a soft shoulder and well. The plates, stack coffee cup, and bouillon are perfectly sized for banquet functions. Spyro is made using Steelite’s Distinction ceramic formula that combines the elegance of china with high resistance to thermal shock. It provides high heat retention, is safe to use in the microwave, dishwasher, and freezer, and carries a five-year edge chip warranty.
Nexus by Dudson is a versatile collection of china, glass, and flatware pieces that work together to enhance food presentation. The fine china pieces come in a mixture of 14 shapes that can be used independently or with the four glass trays in the range. The compartmentalized trays are available in black or clear.
Villeroy & Boch brings the smooth, rich tones of coffee and honey to the tabletop with the introduction of its Vivian Collection, available in Tobacco, Burgundy, and Gold variations. Framed for elegance on the smartly contemporary Marlene shape, these new ranges leap to the forefront of today’s design trend. Vivian is available in a full complement of dinner and banquet items, ready to grace your table today.
Twice fired and fortified with the strengthening agent aluminum oxide, Oneida Tundra offers durability and style. With a 5-year no-chip guarantee, Tundra is the ideal shape for high-demand casual dining settings and is affordably priced when compared with other fortified dinnerware shapes. Wide and flat plate rims allow for better portion control and a more elegant table presence. The low-profile plates and platters also translate into lower stacks in the kitchen and more efficient storage.
