Porcelain Sugar Bowl by Hasami "I have more sugar bowls than I care to admit," Stubbs says. "I drink my tea and coffee with sugar, so I always want to have a sugar bowl out, right next to the kettle. This is a really nice departure from the old-fashioned sugar bowls that I’ve been using for years."

The Helios Fire Bowl Set from Skagerak is a portable outdoor fireplace that is ideal for a back patio. It can be used as a fire pit, or with the Helios Steel Grille and some charcoal to create an outdoor grill for hotdogs, vegetables, or shish kebabs.

Soggy breakfast cereal is the worst. That’s not hyperbole; soggy cereal is literally the worst. To combat the despair of having to eat your bowl of Cap’n Crunch like a soldier late for drill practice, innovative minds have come up with the Obol. It’s basically two bowls in one. One side hold the milk, while the other holds the dry cereal. Just scoop up some cereal, dip it in the milk, and enjoy every bite as though it were your first.

SUGAR + CREAM $84 For presenting sugar and cream on the table we suggest this minimalist, hand-thrown sugar bowl and creamer set from Pigeon Toe. We especially love the small leather loop handle on the sugar bowl lid.

Pros: Also known as composite quartz, engineered quartz comes in a wide range of colors and textures with the general durability of real stone slabs, but with the ease of manufacturing and installation of a man-made product. As a result, engineered quartz isn’t as expensive as other natural stone countertops. Cons: On the other hand, customers can expect to see these qualities reflected in the price of engineered quartz, which can be on the higher end. Quartz also doesn’t handle extreme heat as well as granite does.

These thermo cups are designed with function and practicality in mind. With an insulating interior, the thermo cup keeps hot beverages warm, while the outer layer stays cool to the touch. The lid, which keeps contents warmer longer, can also double as a saucer.

Big Walnut Bowl Handmade in Canada and finished with a natural oil/beeswax mixture, this serving bowl is a handsome addition to any tablescape.

Vitamin Container Bowl by Ole Jensen for MuutoA bowl with a philosophy: “With a bit of good will, the bowl helps us take better care of our fruit and vegetables, and ourselves,” says designer Ole Jensen. The three spaces are also meant to impose order on your unruly countertop produce. $114

A closer look at a finished Balloon Bowl.

The Rose Bowl A national historic landmark, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena has played host to America’s first–and most famous–postseason college football game for every year but one since 1923. The stadium features more than 100 different varieties of rose bushes situated on its grounds and 77 rows of seats open to the Southern California sunshine. Photo by: Peter Bennett

The angular yet smooth Offset bowl is Fehlō's premier centerpiece.

Earthenware Pinstripe bowl from the U.K. ($28).

The 'compote' bowl shape.

Sugar cubes “printed” by the Sugar Lab for 3D Systems.

Domino Sugars, Baltimore, Maryland.

A custom lid for the hot tub doubles as a deck that can travel all the way to the outdoor shower on a track.

Njenworks designed a 25-story high, 15,000 square foot LED screen in Times Square to promote the Flash:Light public arts festival thrown by Nuit Blanche in 2011. Check out the video for the site-specific animation here.

A part of Kaj Franck’s versatile Teema Collection, this large serving bowl is perfect for serving a fresh summer salad at a barbecue or displaying fruit on a countertop. Thebowl is available in a variety of colors and sizes.

The team reviewed twenty years of snowfall data to find an average that would dictate the height of the house’s base. They also extended the roof to protect both the front entrance and the deck—this way the family doesn’t need to worry about snow removal upon arrival or dealing with windows that won’t open.

2x Glass Bowl by Assembly Broken glass shards are embedded—and blunted—in this deceptively safe bowl that’s mouth-blown, molded, cut, and polished.

Goto's fruit bowl made from different strains of scored marble showed its many naturally occurring colors.

Lift Brushed Copper Fruit Bowl by Felicia Fferrone "It’s entertaining season! Time to think about the holiday serving platters and centerpieces. This copper stand will add just the right amount of metallic flair to your modern holiday table."

She produces everything herself, by hand, without any assistants in her studio. For a bowl, she typically starts with a block of wood, inspects it for cracks and knots, trims it down to size on a bandsaw or chainsaw, and then cuts it into a round blank that gets mounted onto a lathe—a tool which rotates an object on an axis. She shapes exterior of the bowl, sands the exterior, then mounts it onto a chuck to turn the inside using a bowl gouge. After mounting the bowl onto a cole jaw to remove the tenon (a stump of the wood that's used to mount the bowl to the chuck), Song then applies oil and wax to the finished piece. She typically uses sugar maple and claro walnut, two woods that are readily available. "Sugar maple is quite dense and the grains are very consistent whereas Walnut is much more porous," she describes.

5.4.3 BlockBowl (Walnut Cutting Block and Bowl) by On Our Table "Whenever I’m having people over for dinner, I’m always looking for simple serving pieces," Hesser says. "I also happen to serve a lot of cured meats, so this naturally appeals to me. It’s a nice, solid piece that would last for decades."

Organic Bowl, Domingos Tórtora

Jellies Family Bowl by Patricia Urquiola for Kartell, $73 from kartell.com The bowls' forms reference moulds used for jelly-making.

Jellies Family Salad Bowl by Patricia Urquiola for Kartell, $94 from kartell.com Spanish architect and designer Patricia Urquiola masterminded a comprehensive tableware collection made of transparent PMMA plastic for Kartell.

“Henge,” a deconstructed fruit bowl.

The ObjectBoxes from designer Maya Bille allow you to both store and display items in one simple step. Each European wood oak box includes an acrylic sliding lid that has enough transparency to reveal the box’s contents, and enough opacity that the eye focuses on the color of the lid and the fine craftsmanship of the wood box.

Pictured above, the Norm Thermo Cups with Lids are designed with function and practicality in mind. With an insulating interior, the thermo cup keeps hot beverages warm, while the outer layer stays cool to the touch. The lid, which keeps contents warmer longer, can also double as a saucer.

A close-up on the Norm Collection for Höst reveals the refined glazes and Scandinavian color palette.

A stone bowl Brothers made in the 1990s is positioned on a rock.

Bulky Sugar BowlStore something sweet in this porcelain sugar bowl from Muuto, $31.