At first glance, the pieces look like porcelain renditions of Renaissance palaces in Florence, but each "building" is actually made up of a stack of six plates (dinner or dessert size) or bowls (cereal or soup) with a "roof" that, when turned over, becomes another usable dish.
Moss, the SoHo shop, carries Jongerius designs like the sink, vases and a wobbly stack of ash-white ceramic dinner plates, which sell, a store manager said, like hot cakes.
One example is the two-part bronze "Out of Sight, Out of Mind," comprising a small, fattish column of dinner plate discs stacked teeteringly atop one another and a taller, thinner column of rubbery-looking forms that could derive from a tower of cans or bowls each collapsed into the one before it.
Dinner was a stack of white bread, on which a healthy cockroach crawled while a patient, named Yelappa, slept.
Set out the fillings in bowls and warm a stack of fresh corn tortillas, and you have a Mexican dinner party with healthy food.
When we make rounds every morning at breakfast time, a stack of trays always leans against one closed door: lunch and dinner from yesterday, breakfast from today.
But how long will it be until the average homemaker will trust a walking stack of silicon components with sorting laundry or chopping vegetables for dinner?
The fire had burned down, dinner was calling, and the magazines, a glorious stack of them, remained untouched.
I remember dinner one night after a game in Hershey Park, looking over at a stack of cell phones at the end of the table, while the girls laughed, told stories and played cards.
