When I moved into my house, all I had in the way of dining furniture was my set of 6 DCMs. The first week in, I went out and bought a table and a hutch to display my grandmother's large collection of Fiesta Ware.
I'll be the first to admit that the table and hutch are not my favorite. I sorta have my finger on the pulse of what I want to do dining table wise ...
I am interested to see how other DAs display dishes. It does not have to be a hutch per se. In fact, there is something about the hutch that is either to traditional, or too retro. The hutch almost needs a facelift, as it doesn't feel modern to me ... as in timeless.
Like most people do, I am replacing a thing at a time, as I can and as I find the right pieces. So while I may not be replacing said hutch soon, I like to have the idea in my head as to what I plan to do in the future.
Would love to see your ideas....
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help you, whitespike. My apartment came equipped with built in cupboards in the dining room where I store my Ben Seibel china.
I did once upon a time have a fabulous walnut Lane piece that I found at an auction in Tennessee. I will go back through my photos to find it and post a pic. It had drawers on the bottom and sort of a floating glass-front cabinet for dishes above.
I still would a piece of furn...
I still would prefer a piece of furniture on that wall. It seems the china cabinet is a bit dated. Could just be me. Or maybe just the one I have. It's okay. I like it. I just don't love it.
True, I could just display the dishes up top, and use something else on that wall... a credenza perhaps...
tchp
Kind of a neat idea. But - I think with my unit it would look like a china cabinet that's been taken apart...
But, that being said, I have thought about contact the company that I got the kitchen cabinets from (Merillat) and seeing if they have a shorter size so I can do what you have described... I would hang a horizontal credenza-esque unit below, leave space on top, and hang another identical unit above but with glass doors.
That's one idea.
robert1960
Love that unit. What is it? If I were to search for one myself. Any other names of vintage and/or new modular wall units? I know Cado and CSS...
It would have to be something on the affordable side.
I found this on apartmenttherapy.com
I think it's a DIY kind of thing. Not bad!
China Cabinet
The below picture is of a Josef Frank design (I think), the only good looking and modernist 'open' cabinet that I know of.
On a side note: I have the same chairs that you have Robert, do you know anything about them? They obviously look like Tapiovaara's, but his are made with plywood seats...
Maybe stacks of dishes
are ipso facto a dated sort of display ? Demonstrating that you (and your forebears) owned a set of collectible crockery is no longer a viable accomplishment -- as demonstrated by the fact that there is no longer a desirable means of displaying them ?
No, that can't be. How about a new furniture type -- a board with notched pegs protruding that would display a vertically-oriented grid or pattern of discs -- the varicolored Fiesta plates that you own, in a colorful spread that simultaneously deploys some of the collection and also presents their colors and shapes in full ?
This wouldn't be as troublesome to dust as a whole collection, and would occupy at least as much wall space as an entire collection of (stacked) dishes). Win-win !
I don't see why there's anything "dated" in the concept of a cabinet used to store china.
The word "display" does kinda bother me, though-- it's reminiscent of useless tsotchkes, like Lladro figurines & Lenox vases.
One has to store their china somewhere-- a cabinet with glass doors is just as good a place as any.
I store my china set on an open Paul McCobb unit in my kitchen-- it's extremely unsatisfactory since the china acquires a layer of dust in no time. I'd give my kingdom for an enclosed cabinet!
But, do you actually USE the china contained within the cabinet? If not, maybe that's why you find the concept vaguely embarrassing. The reason why china cabinets have gotten a bad rap is because people tend to use them as uselss shrines, I think.
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