Scandinavian & Japanese Dinnerware

Scandinavian and Japanese dinnerware for everyday use

Scandinavian and Japanese dinnerware share plain forms, honest materials and a focus on daily use. This collection brings together three makers who work that way: Hasami Porcelain from Nagasaki, Japan; Ferm Living, a Copenhagen design brand founded in 2006; and Pillivuyt, a French porcelain maker founded in 1818. Much of it is designed to stack. Build a Scandinavian dinnerware set from Ferm Living stoneware, a Japanese one from Hasami Porcelain, or mix the two.

Japanese dinnerware: Hasami Porcelain

Designed by Takuhiro Shinomoto of Tortoise in Venice, California, Hasami Porcelain is made in Hasami, Nagasaki, where porcelain has been produced for almost 400 years. Each stage, from mold making and forming to glazing and firing, is handled by a specialist workshop in the town. The body is a blend of crushed Amakusa pottery stone and clay, which Hasami calls semi-porcelain. Plates, bowls and mugs share a set of diameters, so a plate becomes a lid and pieces stack without rocking. Choose Natural (unglazed), Black (matte, with a bare rim) or Gloss Gray (clear glaze). Plates start at $12. Shop all Hasami Porcelain.

Scandinavian dinnerware: Ferm Living

Ferm Living brings the Scandinavian side of the table in stoneware. The Flow plate and bowl have a slightly uneven rim and a high-fire reactive glaze, so color shifts from piece to piece. The Sekki bowl and cup pair a cream glaze with fine grey speckling, a nod to traditional Japanese stoneware. Shop Ferm Living.

Pillivuyt

Pillivuyt makes its porcelain in Mehun-sur-Yèvre, France, continuing a manufacture founded in 1818. The hard-paste porcelain is fired at 2550°F into a dense, non-porous body with a glaze that resists chips and scratches. Sancerre is white porcelain dinnerware sold in sets of four. Shop Pillivuyt.

Building a set

Start with the pieces you use most, then add. Because Hasami sizes are shared across shapes, stackable plates and bowls bought months apart still fit together.

Plates

Hasami plates come in six sizes, from 3 3/8" to 11 7/8"; the smallest works as a lid or saucer. Pillivuyt Sancerre plates come in sets of four, and Ferm Living Flow plates in black or off-white speckle.

Bowls

Hasami bowls come in five sizes, each matched to a plate, plus tall, round and deep round shapes for rice, noodles and soup. Pillivuyt offers Sancerre bowls and wide soup and pasta bowls.

Mugs and cups

Hasami mugs come in three sizes on one 3 3/8" diameter, so they stack together. Pillivuyt Sancerre cups run from espresso to breakfast size, with matching saucers.

Serving

The 10" and 11 7/8" Hasami plates double as platters, and the largest Pillivuyt soup and pasta bowls, up to 12.5", work as serving bowls.

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