Tables have glass tops, with a shelf beneath the glass where decorative platters in shades of blue act as centerpieces of sorts.
It is illegal to watch American games in Cuba, but for years, Cubans have been sneaking small satellite dishes into the country by painting them to look like decorative platters.
Paintings and objects keep pertinent company, united by the spirit of their origin, with small sculptures, elaborate silver table furnishings, decorative platters, Meissen knockoffs of Chinese pottery, a porcelain bird cage, vases, even an embroidered bishop's cope, all cleverly interspersed with paintings.
If you are doing vases and decorative platters, and operate at a $500 per order price point, you need 2000 customers to make $1 million in revenue.
Environmental toxins such as lead are extremely common in fine china and decorative platters.
Typically, a lead content will be listed on the back of decorative platters and expensive dishes.
The most beautiful designs can be found right in San Miguel at Quinta Irma (decorative serving platter, 1,400 pesos).
A large decorative serving platter, with an ornate teardrop pattern in the traditional colors of blue and sienna, costs approximately $4.70.
Even the restaurant's understated décor, with groups of oversize decorative Majolica platters set above calf-brown banquettes, against a color scheme of yellow and white, evokes the dairy's butter and milk.
C. Wonder -- 72 Spring Street -- 10 Columbus Circle A terrific place for stylish, but humorous, cheeseboards, platters, decorative plates and more.
