Kitchen couture

It’s like haute couture for your kitchen.

Think of it by comparing ready-to-wear and haute couture. Then, apply that to your kitchen. You could have a mug and saucer, or that mug could sit on a cloud. It’s going from an ordinary casserole dish to one in the shape of a tomato or pumpkin. Pique interest at dinner parties with pieces that excite through extravagant artistry or elegance.

Practical and pretty
Vegetable décor has served, literally, in kitchens for decades, assumed to have started in the 18th to 19th centuries across England and Europe. When one of my favourite designers, Jonathan Anderson, used a porcelain Asparagus Tureen as inspiration for a beaded Asparagus bag that walked the runway for Loewe’s Fall Winter 2024 collection, I was hooked. It’s a fascinating thing to play with reality and fantasy, and there is every reason to bring the garden inside and reinterpret it.