East Fork Pottery is nestled at the end of a valley on an old tobacco field, between steep green mountains, thirty minutes northwest of Asheville, North Carolina. Founded in 2010 by Alexander and Connie Matisse, the workshop is now home to potter John Vigeland and a growing team of apprentices and staff. We make a line of contemporary dinnerware distilled to its essential elements: form and function. It is durable and timeless, resistant to fashion and trends.

Heath Ceramics continues as one of California’s last remaining mid-century era potteries, compared to several hundred which once operated in the state. It continues to produce and sell handcrafted dinnerware and tiles at its original Sausalito factory location. In 2003, industrial designer Catherine Bailey and her husband mechanical engineer Robin Petravic bought Heath Ceramics when Edith and Brian Heath could no longer run the company. The new owners continue to revitalize Heath’s original designs with new ideas and by engaging talented artists and designers, while maintaining Heath’s design tradition.

Timo Sarpaneva (1926-2006) was a Finnish designer, sculptor, and educator who was known for his innovative work with glass. The influential designer also worked with metals, woods, textiles, and porcelain. Sarpaneva created functional products that were also aesthetically attractive, including his cast-iron cookware series and porcelain dinnerware. Sarpaneva designed for several renowned Scandinavian design companies, including Iittala and Marimekko.

Ink Dish is a San Diego based producer of dinnerware founded by former desigenrs for Staffordshire and Limoges. They seek a more innovative approach to dinnerware, eschewing the traditional flower and butterfly patterns in favor of designs inpsired by contemporary artists, including tattoo artist Paul Timman. They also have collections with Austin artist Alyson Fox, Cleveland artist Dana Oldfather, and LA artist David Palmer.

Russel Wright (April 3, 1904 – December 21, 1976) was an American Industrial designer prominent in mid-century modern design. Beginning in the late 1920s through the 1960s, Russel Wright created a succession of artistically distinctive and commercially successful items that helped bring modern design to the general public. He is particularly well known for his colorful dinnerware. See Related: Russel Wright Melamine Dinnerware

Since 1976, Zak Designs has been committed to making mealtime fun for people around the world. Whether it's through dinnerware and on-the-go products that feature children's favorite characters or tableware and kitchen prep products that represent the latest global fashion statements, Zak gives people the mealtime products that fit their appetites.

Alyson Fox is an American artist, illustrator, and dinnerware designer that was born October 8, 1979 in El Paso, Texas. She received a Bachelors' Degree in Photography from Florida State University and an Masters' from the University of Colorado. Alyson began her career as a visual director for Anthropologie in Plano, Texas. In 2005 she left retail and began to focus on illustration.

In the late 1950s, Los Angeles based designer La Gardo Tackett (1911-1992) and his family spent 16 months in Japan and, while there, met an importer from Boston and developed the "Forma" line of dinnerware for Schmid International. Inspired by his anthropological research into the cultural history of vessels used in dinnerware, Tackett designed this line of what he referred to as "autonomous" pieces, meaning that they could be used at the table or throughout the house as accessories. During the same period he also designed pieces that were later distributed by the Freeman Lederman Company. Tackett worked with European-trained ceramic engineers at the largest Ironstone factory in Japan, using machinery imported from Germany and England, to produce the exceptional quality of his stoneware pieces. The pieces possess Tackett's trademark minimal, sculptural Los Angeles design sensibility that was made popular by his work for Architectural Pottery.

Teroforma was founded in 2006 by husband and wife Anna & Andrew Hellman. They work with emerging designers and small, artisan-led manufacturers, workshops, and studios around the world to create thoughtfully crafted objects for the table. Their philosophy is that beauty is as much about the process as it is about the finished product. Their product line includes linens, dinnerware, glassware, flatware, cooking tools, decorative accents, and more.

In 1987, brothers Axel and Serge Van den Bossche took over their mother’s business under the name Serax, expanding a series of flower pots into an extensive range of decorative accents. Today, the German company’s product collection includes 4,000 objects, including glassware, dinnerware, candles, and more. The company is focused on both innovative and affordable design that consistently adapts to modern lifestyles.

Oneida Ltd. is one of the world’s largest marketers of stainless steel flatware, and offers a complete range of tabletop products. Its operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Australia market stainless, silverplated, and sterling flatware products, china dinnerware, and crystal and glassware items. The company originated in a utopian community established in the mid-nineteenth century, and has had a strong reputation for quality since that time.

Fortessa, Inc. is a leading designer, developer and marketer of quality tableware for the high-end commercial foodservice market globally, as well as for the luxury consumer market, headquartered in Virginia, USA. The company was founded in 1993 as the Great American Trading Company, Inc., with two employees, but focused from the very start on quality dinnerware for culinary professionals and for the home. In 1997, the company expanded its offerings to flatware, glassware and tabletop accessories, becoming a “total table” operation.

Freelance product and interior designer living in Stockholm and trained at Beckmans School of Design.Eliasson has mainly worked with dinnerware products, but his credentials include children’s toys, furniture and home-interior makeovers for the television series Room Service. In addition, he has his own artistic glass and ceramic work. His designs are often inspired by nature, history, science and meals. For Sagaform, he has designed the Tapas, Mangold and Interior series.

American architect Michael Graves founded his practice in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1964. Since the early 1980s, his work directly influenced the transformation of urban architecture from the abstraction of commercial modernism toward an interest in context. Graves has dubbed himself "a general practitioner," designing not only the interiors for the majority of his projects, but also a wide range of furnishings and products, from furniture and lighting fixtures to jewelry and dinnerware. Take a look at some of the late architect's greatest hits here.

Heller is an international furniture manufacturer with production in the US and Europe. Incorporated in 1971, Heller's first product was a line of stacking dinnerware designed by Massimo Vignelli. Winner of a Compasso d'Oro award in Italy, it is included in the Museum of Modern Art permanent design collection, New York. Heller launched its furniture division in 1998. The Bellini Chair (1998), designed by Mario Bellini, won the Compasso d'Oro ADI 2001. More chairs have followed: The UltraBellini Chair (2006), the MB 1, MB 2 and MB 5 (2003), and Tavollini (1999), all by Mario Bellini; the new Arco (2006) by Mario Bellini and Claudio Bellini

Starting in Louisville, Kentucky, and then flourishing in Los Angeles, California, J. A. Bauer Pottery Company created simple, yet beautiful stoneware from the late 1880s to the early 1960s. With lines ranging from redware flowerpots to brilliantly colored dinnerware, Bauer Pottery was a staple in American homes for many decades. Inspired by the weather and lifestyles of Southern California, Bauer Pottery created many different lines for the home and garden. Bauer introduced new, richly colored styles after the Depression which met with overwhelming success. It wasn't long before all the major pottery companies in the United States began to follow with their own interpretations of Bauer's vision. Today, the work of J.A. Bauer has been reintroduced by a ceramics studio in Los Angeles, located just minutes from the original plant.

Lorena Siminovich (born in Buenos Aires) is a San Francisco based artist, designer, and illustrator. With a background in graphic design and an extensive career as an art director, she became interested in design for children in 2001 when she moved from Buenos Aires to New York. During this time, she was responsible for art direction and product development at Mudpuppy, an award winning company that manufactures puzzles and toys for kids, whose products can be found in museum stores across the country. Soon thereafter, she began her illustration career and relocated to San Francisco. Lorena has written and illustrated several children's books. Her artwork has been licensed for stationery, wall decor, and dinnerware. Her clients include Anthropologie, Pottery Barn Kids, The Art Group, Habitat UK, Galison, Mudpuppy, Chronicle Books, and Crocodile Creek.