Chicago - April 04, 2006

Public Display of Collection

Yosoh Ceramics

Your bed is covered with pillows you don’t sleep on. Your shelves are stocked with books you’ve never read.

So the fact that you have a cabinet’s worth of dishes you just look at doesn’t surprise us at all.

They are, after all, Yosoh ceramics. And, as far as you’re concerned, they deserve a much better fate than messy moo shu chicken.

The limited-edition dishes, pots, and pitchers are screened with computer-generated images and take a clever riff on advertising, relationships, and pop culture. The Searching plate is decorated with a fill-in-the-blank letter to a soul mate. Another dish is screened with the all-too-honest “I don’t understand myself so how can I expect you to understand me?”

Art or dinnerware?

Now that’s a useless debate.

Available online at yosoh.com.