Drawing upon Dutch Still Life Painting of the 17th century, Still Life Stories presents a series of multipurpose food containers, that interpret classical paintings in a contemporary manner.

Still Life Stories is intended to facilitate an experimental dinner party, by opening new ways of experiencing the meal and which parallels to food design. The dinner takes on the sense of a special act or performance. The actors are animals made of porcelain. These serving plates, bowls, and cups take the shape of living and lively animals while simultaneously playing cadavers. Besides the animal food containers there are also abstracted organic shapes from the inside of the body.

Still Life Stories straddles the border between art and design, pure aesthetics and functionality. It is intended to facilitate an experimental dinner party, by opening new ways of experiencing the meal.

Still Life Stories presents a series of multipurpose food containers in forms that echo those of these classical Vanitas paintings (ex: dead animals) but interpret them in a contemporary manner.

The stories told by these contemporary and functional Still Life porcelain pieces render visible what is normally difficult to see: in these stories the inside is brought outside and that which is normally consumed becomes the vessel for other temporary objects.
While everyday life objects such as serving dishes and containers, the objects in Still Life Stories are designed to promote a new experience of the everyday: they encourage and invite playful handling as well as challenge the user to discover the ideas behind their design.

JACK RABBIT is a vessel for vegetables and fruits but also as a storage for small accessories available as a limited edtion. There are three different types of patterns:
white porcelain /30pcs, golden painted /10pcs , traditional cobalt pattern/ 10pcs.

Dimensions: 50x35x35 cm

ALVEOLI as a tureen with a overdimensional lid is available in white or with a golden pattern on a handle.

Dimensions: D.: 37 cm; H: 45 cm.

Maria Volokhova