Comments on: Table settings

By: raymund

raymund — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:43:16 +0000

Im happy that u make this table setting.!.. I can do now my project. thank you very much!!!:)

By: Wilson Cariaga

Wilson Cariaga — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 02:02:10 +0000

nice. . . modern and clean. . . :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:40:00 +0000

annesqui et al, Manila has surprisingly good finds… cardinal ceramics has been a treasure trove over the years, I found leaf ceramic overruns destined for a well known Parisian florist/designer… I also got overruns of a Danish or Scandinavian design for votive candle holders. they also have everyday and unusual plates. From Mikasa overruns I got great huge serving platters for PHP100 each so I bough a dozen so I can do a lobster meal with everyone getting their own platter! From Divisoria, there are votive candle holders for PHP5 each. When you put 100 of them on your lawn, it looks like a million bucks…no, stunning need not be expensive!

By: annesqui

annesqui — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:24:31 +0000

Wow! They’re all beautiful. Not a waste of time; art never is. :)

I’m so green with envy. I’m the first generation of collectors so to speak, I guess I’d be the one to leave deep cabinets of plates arranged by pattern. :) (I love entertaining too, and love beautiful but not necessarily expensive table presentations.) Each time I’m left to my devices in the mall, I go to the home supply stores and inspect plates, making up table settings in my head. Someday… when I get a/my own (bigger) house I will buy all the plates I want. :) (And probably spend hours dressing up the table. Hahaha.)

By: joey

joey — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:21:08 +0000

The first setting is my favorite too! :) I love the shell detail and rectangular plate…which is practical too because I’m sure it can hold more crabs…yumyum. I totally agree with you about the place settings and I think that it was definitely time well spent! I also like to think how I can stretch the “looks” of my meager collection. While reading through your post I was getting more and more inspired. And you are SO right to compare it to dressing up…because that is exactly how I feel about it :) Now I’m the one who better stop lest the frivolity police track me down!

By: CecileJ

CecileJ — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 01:07:37 +0000

I agree with you, I liked the first setting best. Not because of the Limoges and Philippe Starck but because the setting was slightly “skewed” yet elegant. Even the way the napkin was parang “carelessly” folded and placed cater-cornered. Parang yung nag-set ay seemingly sane pero may tinatagong craziness. How’s that for Freudian analysis? :)

By: Apicio

Apicio — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:47:00 +0000

There is much to be learned from the Japanese in the way they react to their environment and the changing seasons which minutely informs the presentation of their food and their table settings. This attitude becomes subjected to even more rigorous and exacting limits when they touch on the serving of tea. All the more surprising when you consider that this worldview originally developed under enforced extreme poverty. So as with everything, it is not necessarily opulence but the thought that we inject into the cooking and presentation of food that yields pure joy.

By: Gigi

Gigi — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:33:04 +0000

Not at all offended by a discussion on table setting and whathaveyou, MM! After all, the packaging is just as important as what’s in it…. I like the 5th setting with the blue bowl situated far off the center — whoever said these things should have mid-alignment… Visually provoking for me… I’m partial to white dishes that serve as a blank canvass to the food.

By: millet

millet — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:32:44 +0000

looove the plastic placemats, and the “squished” cup!