You imagine the author tracking down a vendor of fried-pork sandwiches, cornering him on the fine points of a recipe that has never been recorded, and then going home and writing a recipe so that it can be prepared in a nonstick pan for a family of four and served on a pretty ceramic platter.
Trent Berning employs more abstraction and heavy-handedness in his work as seen in the "Odalisque Platter," a wheel-thrown and alerted ceramic platter rendered in a serpentine green with geometric forms loosely inscribed on the surface.
A show and sale by 175 artisans, of items like gold jewelry, ceramic platters, chenille blankets and lamps, starts tomorrow, from 3 to 9 p.m.
Domus is taking 20 to 50percentt off selected merchandise through Sept. 12 (Portuguese linen and French cotton tablecloths, left, originally $105 to $150, are about $70 to $100; a set of four porcelain mugs, originally about $40, is about $29; and ceramic platters and bowls, originally about $40 each, are about $20413413 West 44th Street (Ninth Avenue), (212) 581-8099 or domusnewyork.com.com
She is showing several ceramic platters blithely yet vigorously decorated with motifs drawn from Weir Farm.
Ceramic platters patterned with floor plans of two-bedroom railroad apartments and duplexes with terraces will make you sick with envy (plates, $7.95-$7.95-$32.95
Ceramic platters, tea sets, bowls, vases and trays by 40 artists will be on sale through Dec. 21, with proceeds benefiting educational and arts programs at Greenwich House.
WHERE TO SHOP Kaya Seramik in Avanos (Eski Nevsehir Yolu Uzeri, 90-384-511-2374; www.gurayseramik.ceramic sells colorful ceramic platters and traditional Iznik tiles.
These are wishful odes to how serene and perfect your life could be, if only you had the money, the £50 ceramic platters and the time.
A small, stout woman in black, she arrived midmorning, wedged into her daughter-in-law's minuscule Fiat amid bags of couscous, branches of bay leaves and crates of assorted fish balanced on stacks of ceramic platters and bowls.
