Burke Decor

Pumpkin and I are enamored of a fancy set of china made by Seletti. It's the Palace collection: the plates and bowls stack up, and with an inverted serving bowl on top, they make an Italian palazzo! Like this: http://www.seletti.it/table/prod_palace.php

Of course, we have a pretty set of china for when company comes but this is really tickling us. So, we decided to buy and I googled my way to Burke Decor, who is giving 30% off dinnerware (and other items for entertaining). That is a much better deal than anywhere else I've been able to find.

The sale is still on for another week, I think, so if you're in the market for plates, table linens, etc., it might be good to have a look there. (Alas, they have no interesting cookware for sale, they're more of a home place than a kitchen place.)

Cute.

Can't have enough whimsy in your life, I say.

One of the things we picked up on one of our Euro jaunts was when we visited a ceramica factory in Italy. They had a----I don't know what you call it---sort of trompe l'oeil kinda thing, what looked like a full stack of dark blue/white trim plates,but which turned out to be a single fired piece made to look like a stack of plates.

It was so well done that occasionally we would ask a guest to 'reach over and grab us a plate from the stack, please'. Which shows how sophomoric one can be even in dotage.

Which shows how sophomoric one can be even in dotage.

Are you reaching the next Nile Age? (...juvenile, senile...)

Which shows how sophomoric one can be even in dotage.

Are you reaching the next Nile Age? (...juvenile, senile...)

Somewhere in there you forgot puerile.

Which shows how sophomoric one can be even in dotage.

Are you reaching the next Nile Age? (...juvenile, senile...)

Somewhere in there you forgot puerile.

As long as we avoid sterile, it's all good.

[Jenise]

Now where will you keep your new palazzo? You can't just stuff that into some cupboard.

We're working on that part.