Starter plate dark blue - white stripes Feast

Arrived in good shape. Love how unique it is.

Beautiful platter. Nice size to display our culinary creations. My only complaint is not about the product, but how it was shipped. There was absolutely no packing materials in the box. The platter was able to slide around the Amazon box quite a bit. We were worried we would find it broken, but luckily it was not.

These are gorgeous stoneware plates. They are made in Belgium, designed by Italian graphic artist, Ivo Bisignano in collaboration with British chef/restaurateur, Yotam Ottolenghi. I will buy just about anything with Ottolenghi's name attached to it because, as a follower of him and his reataurants for years, I am well aware of his perfectionism and high standards. These plates are no exception. The design, like Ottolenghi's recipes, is delightful and unusual. The glaze is flawless. The stoneware is appropriately weighty and thankfully practical. This particular set of plates isvery much on the small side. I would describe them as being somewhere between a bread plate and a salad plate. They are called breakfast plates, and would fit a piece of avocado toast, but not really a full breakfast. They are also described as dessert plates, and the rim is nicely deep enough that a dessert with a sauce or Creme Anglaise would work without trouble. Really pleased with these plates. I would love to get more of this set when available - it's fun and unusual.

I seem to have a thing for small fancy plates that you can actually use and not just have them for show, and this set really appealed to me. These are stoneware but not near as heavy as some others that I have, probably due to the smaller size. These will be durable without being so heavy that they are too hard to handle or wash for seniors. The abstract design is very cool, beautifully artistic and colorful. It's funny I was looking at the plates and seeing a face until another reviewer mentioned 2 faces looking at each other, and now that's what I see, so Fun! I could imagine them being used in a high end restaurant with a very fancy dessert or appetizer on them. I washed them before putting them in my cupboard and they washed fine, I tested them with a light duty brush and the design was fine, I do have a dishwasher but I will probably not put these in there, just my personal choice even though they are dishwasher and microwave safe.

My kid can do this, and he did recreate this unremarkable artwork, because he was laughing at how bad this artwork is. This just doesn't take any talent or skill to create, it's not wonderful. I think it scares the food I set on it. This is vanity celebrity art, not worth the price. It's just bad art relying upon ego and a century-old modernist reification of primitivism to achieve any value, and this type of value is fiction, false. Value of these plates are the functional value of the ceramics. The ceramics, though, are fantastic.