Ever since Design Miami launched DM / BX, its design e-commerce platform, in September, aspiring collectors have been drawn to the range of limited edition and unique products on offer. With works from renowned and emerging designers – David Hicks, Faye Toogood and Alexander Girard among them – each item for sale in this digital storefront of furniture, lighting and home decor costs between $ 50 and $ 3,000.

Count the New York interior designer Kristen McGinnis among the lovers. When Design Miami CEO Jennifer Roberts’ name appeared on her caller ID, followed by a pitch to set up a series of tables for the platform, the admiration turned into a collaboration. . Today, the new McGinnis tableware collection hatched with five artistic partners is available on the site.

The launch of the category seemed natural for the designer, who has long thought about her dishes. (“I was buying Fire King and Fiestaware for my college dorm at flea markets,” McGinnis says.) Lately, she had become frustrated with the challenges of finding beautiful dishes for her customers. So, still underpinned by the ritual of home cooking in the pandemic era, “and the chemistry of how it all came together,” the time for the traditional dishwashing overhaul was particularly opportune.

For this summer project, McGinnis searched for artists she had worked with before, as well as a few she was eager to meet. She did not issue them a design directive and there were no Zoom progress calls. Still, the resulting 11-piece collection, brought to life in various studios, feels organically whole.

“I knew I wanted a painterly quality, so why not create a canvas-inspired tablecloth as a background for the whole table,” she says. This led to a hand-painted landscape by Yolande Milan Batteau and hand-woven metallic brushed linen napkins by Hiroko Takeda which are gathered in Batteau’s golden moon bracelets. She enlisted Farrell Hundley (her relationship with the brand goes back even further than Fiestaware, as McGinnis has been friends with co-founder Elliott Hundley since sixth year) to create cast bronze cutlery, as well as a set of candlesticks. , which look like relics that embrace the lost wax technique.

As McGinnis says, it’s like “every little piece of the puzzle comes together”. Along with a few other selections from the McGinnis range, here are some of the other pieces we are currently loving on the new DM / BX design online store.

Dinner plate by Jeremy Anderson

Ceramic artist Jeremy Anderson’s sculptural Piccolo bowl plays a prominent role in this range, but the artist’s glazed stoneware dinner and salad plates are equally impressive. Each is hand-thrown on the potter’s wheel, baked three times, and accented with a 22k gold luster that brings a welcome touch of luxury to everyday dining.

Vinum Tumbler by Michiko Sakano Studio

The subtly striking Neon Decanter and Aqua glasses by Japanese glass artist Michiko Sakano, part of McGinnis’ collaboration, are made from hand-blown glass. The wide-lipped Vinum tumblers, ideal for generous pouring of wine, have a particularly appealing weathered appearance thanks to Sakano’s skillful knack for trapping air bubbles between layers of glass.

A Signurina by Antonio Aricò

The A Signurina chair by Italian artist and designer Antonio Aricò, originally for Myop, is crafted from ash wood and paper cord and features exquisitely restrained ripples.

Pikul Table Lamp by lvaro Catalan de Ócon

Part of the Pikul recycled plastic PET lamp collection, this calming table lamp, designed by Madrid-born Alvaro Catalán de Ocón and assembled by a trio of artisans, combines traditional weaving techniques with eco-conscious modernity, marrying bamboo and natural fiber with a PET bottle.

La Jacana à Cuadro by Maria Beckmann

Presented by the New York gallery Tuleste Factory, this square table in solid Tzalam wood is made by Mexico City designer Maria Beckmann. The table is distinguished by its group of four tapered legs.