A little wit can go a long way in design, but one charming dinner plate is an exception.
"Everything is satisfactual," stated a charming little plate.
Charming, charming, charming" by NPR.
Original, charming and serving delicious plates of hot food all day long, it has got even better thanks to the recent acquisition of a brand new Electro Freeze soft serve machine.
Families pop up in many of the year's most charming food books: Smashing Plates (Kyle, £19.99) is Maria Elia's authentic response to spending a summer with her dad in Cyprus with dishes drenched in sunlight and Greece's strong flavours.
But much remains — including an excellent Japanese horse-eye plate and a charming little hanging scroll of an ink-and-brush landscape.
Josephssons sells everything from Orrefors (its colorful and lower-priced Home line fills many a shop window) to charming brikka mugg sets (small plates with indentations for a mug that are perfect for transporting soup and a sandwich to a favorite armchair on a cold winter day).
Granita: It's so charming that he uses paper plates.
Hassam spoils, for me, an otherwise wonderful semi-pointillist painting, from 1898, of a governess shepherding two little girls in Central Park by giving her head the "charming" tilt of a fashion-plate model.
As we part Schweiger proffers me his most charming grin and croons amiably "Remember, the love is on the plate".
Maybe one day I'll attach the number plates of my car to my bicycle, so that charming motorist of a few weeks ago will consider driving around me, not over the top of me.
