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Pastel place mats and napkins add a bit of cheer to your dining room table. For springtime and beyond, Hay, a Danish tableware and home furnishing company, has just introduced [...]

The owner of Il Buco has a new space to sell tableware and home accessories from Italy. Since 2013, Donna Lennard, the owner of Il Buco and Il Buco Alimentari [...]

Food and eating figure into some of the whimsical interactive works by the American artist Mark Dion that now dot the Storm King Art Center's more than 500 acres and [...]

The layout of the two-story Time Out Market New York, opening Friday, may be typical -- aisles lined with vendors making and serving their specialties, areas for communal tables -- [...]

Of all the rooms in the actress Mandy Moore's midcentury modern house in Pasadena, Calif., whose recent renovation has been meticulously documented on Instagram Stories to her 2.5 million followers, [...]

Mischer'Traxler in Vienna is known for environmentally sensitive design that pays equal mind to technology and nature; sustainability is a major goal. Founded by Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler in [...]

THE White Barn Theater on the border of Westport and Norwalk has a long and rich history. Under Lucille Lortel, who founded the theater in 1947, it was the setting […]

FLORENCE--Leonard, Age 74, formerly of Chelsea, died on June 26th at his residence in Chestnut Hill. Mr. Florence the son of the late Myer and Fannie (Raisman) Florence, grew up […]

As heavy as stone but made of translucent resin, the serving dishes from the Australian company Dinosaur Designs make for festive table settings. The durable (though not unbreakable), dishwasher-safe tableware [...]

To the Editor: Re 'Why the Keepers of Oneida Don't Care to Share the Table' (June 20), which looked at Oneida Ltd., the flatware maker, as it has evolved from […]

Can pottery have personality? Cor Unum, a Dutch producer of ceramic art pieces, thinks tableware can be witty, handsome, provocative and helpful. To that end, Cor Unum hires architects, artists […]

Oneida County is seeking to levy fines of as much as $1.5 million against the organizers of the Woodstock '99 music festival, but the organizers and county officials say they […]

Shig Kariya, one of the founders of Mikasa Inc., the big tableware company, died on Friday at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. He was 84. The cause was […]

IT began in the 1840's as a rejection of the world at large, a breakaway utopian experiment that combined the dignity of work with the joy of sex amid the […]

Libbey Inc., the glassware and tableware maker, said yesterday that it had raised its offer to acquire a rival, Oneida Ltd., the world's largest maker of flatware. The new offer, […]

* CG Technologies, Brea, Calif., a unit of Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications company, to Bozell Worldwide Southern California, Costa Mesa, Calif., a unit of True North Communications, for the American […]

A HUGE white basin was placed before me at Veritas in the Flatiron district. Partway through the warm oysters and fingerling potatoes it contained, I paused to take a sip […]

When it comes to luxury tableware, certain standards reign. The silver must be glittery. The crystal crystalline. The porcelain impossibly light. And the prices weighty. In that case, who better […]

For those who want to downscale their luncheons (or upscale their picnics), there is good news. William-Wayne & Company sells trompe l'oeil plates that look like Sevres porcelain but are […]

Bamboo, raffia and rattan have led versatile lives. Serving as rooftops as well as tables, drinking cups and curtains, woody materials appeal to those interested in a textured simplicity. In […]

Are they plastic, papier-mache, lacquer? Actually, they're Philippine Capiz shells, warmed, sliced and molded according to traditional techniques. The Capiz shell tableware line is designed by Gail De Loach for […]

Some 20,000 property owners in central New York State whose land has been claimed by the Oneida Indians in a Federal lawsuit are in little danger of losing their property, […]

Libbey Inc. will close a factory in Canada, eliminating 560 jobs. The plant in Wallaceburg, Ontario, makes drinking glasses and also is the company's only producer of glass bottles. The […]

CHORAL programs, chamber recitals, orchestral concerts can all be heard at 3 P.M. today. Ole Akahoshi, a cellist and recent addition to the Yale faculty, has chosen works by Bach, […]

LENOX INC., Lawrenceville, N.J., a subsidiary of Brown-Forman Corp., will discontinue operations in early 1999 at its Kirk Stieff plant in Baltimore, affecting about 75 employees. MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS INC., […]

EVEN if you don't cook Asian food, you probably order out. And at many tableware companies today, Asian accessories are right up there with the soup bowls. Even Christofle, the […]

WHEN Steve Phillips leaves his Wilton home on mornings the New York Mets are playing at Shea Stadium, his sons, Ryan, 5, and Brett, 2, usually say, 'See you tomorrow […]

ROSENBERG-Louise Marie, 63. Died peacefully Tuesday in her Wilton home, surrounded by family. With husband Peter, she transformed their business Vallin Galleries into a renowned Asian art gallery. Louise was […]

ROSENBERG-Louise Marie, 63. Died peacefully Tuesday in her Wilton home, surrounded by family. With husband Peter, she transformed their business Vallin Galleries into a renowned Asian art gallery. Louise was […]

What do you call this line of serving pieces? Flying Platters? Area 51? Actually, Wilton Armetale is calling it Roswell, after the town in New Mexico where aliens supposedly crash-landed […]

Renzo Piano, the co-designer of the Georges Pompidou Center and the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, created this stainless-steel flatware. 'Cutlery is not an object,' he said. 'It's […]

NATIONAL VISION ASSOCIATES LTD., Lawrenceville, Ga., an optical company, agreed to acquire the closely held Frame-n-Lens Optical Inc., Fullerton, Calif., for about $37 million in cash and assumed debt. ONEIDA […]

A BASEBALL fantasy was being lived out by John Benson of Wilton, who spent the month of March visiting spring training camps in Arizona and Florida; in the process Mr. […]

Amy Lynn McLean, a daughter of Rebecca Holden Deckard and Dr. Jary Lynn McLean, both of Wichita, Kan., was married yesterday to Jared Knapp Sprole, a son of Katherine Thompson […]

THE clash of colors at Dundee's Steakhouse in Mansfield was jolting: Blue and white bunting on the walls, red sweaters and sweatshirts on the 20 or so people in the […]

For Sandy Chilewich, the former co-owner of the leg-wear company Hue, dishes need not be solid and boring. Instead, they can be as soft and changeable as slipcovers. Her Raybowls […]

WHEN Bigi Sann left for a three-day camping trip with classmates at the Montessori School in Wilton, she took with her a tiny gift-wrapped box that her father had given […]

BALDWIN PIANO AND ORGAN CO., Loveland, Ohio, agreed to sell its church organ division to Kuhn Keyboards Inc. for an undisclosed amount. LIBBEY INC., Toledo, Onio, the glassware manufacturer, agreed […]

Carving a Skyline From Ice Ice carvings of the Manhattan skyline by more than a dozen pastry and banquet chefs will rise on Sunday in the garden of Tavern on […]

Oneida Ltd. agreed yesterday to sell its Camden Wire Company unit to International Wire Group Inc. for $44.5 million in cash and the assumption of $15.5 million in debt. The […]

There is no design trend that deserves to die faster than colored dishware: glasses that make the richest Pomerol look like a medical sample, colored plates that make sauces look […]

A NINTH generation of the Boch family is now working at Villeroy & Boch, the venerable German dinnerware company, which will celebrate its 250th anniversary next year. Oliver von Boch, […]

Oneida Ltd., a maker of tableware based in Oneida, N.Y., said yesterday that it would sell its Camden Wire subsidiary to a Jamestown company for $35.2 million in cash and […]

EVA ZEISEL is a fabled ceramist, but she is a realist, too. 'Nobody employs a 90-year-old designer,' she said with a laugh. Pity. Ms. Zeisel is as creative now as […]

LEAVE it to the British artist Damien Hirst, he of the cows cut in half and suspended in tanks of formaldehyde and spectral heads made of wax and blood, to […]

To his supporters here in Oneida Territory, Ray Halbritter is the kind of leader Indian people have needed for generations. His shrewdness in dealings with white officials, they say, won […]

ASKING Jose Alvarez if he is worried about his future is a bit like asking if he is alive. Why waste the question, that's how obvious the answer is, he […]

Farberware, the cookware-maker whose plant in the Bronx employs 700 workers, is being sold to a Massachusetts company, whose chairman said it might be too costly to keep manufacturing in […]

The Irish fine china and tableware company Waterford Wedgwood P.L.C. reported a 45 percent increase in pretax profits yesterday and paid its first dividend since 1988 as the company's recovery […]