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“The very first time I stepped into a dining showroom, I was awed by the dinnerware and its artisanal textures. But one thing that I had to struggle with was which material was which. I mean, it was so confusing- which one was porcelain, which was ceramic?”

You know what the most beautiful part of home decor is? Every house becomes home and is then remembered for years, less for its square footage and more for how it makes people feel.

It’s been years since lifestyle with awareness has become a global vision, still a huge part of our daily lives, i.e. tableware, has been kept far away from the league of knowledge.

If years back, you would have asked someone, “Let’s meet over high tea,” the sparkle in their eyes would have glittered as tea and conversations used to be the only medium to bond over. However, with hustle culture taking over, it started to fade away.

"The details are not the details. They make the design."
- Charles Eames

Have you ever thought why in some places visuals just feel different, they feel ‘designed.’ Nothing looks purchased in a hurry, every corner feels intentional but still far away from scripted and desperate.

We have seen it all, how the grandmother kept two sets of dining plates in her kitchen. One was the everyday set, chipped at the edges from years of Sunday lunches. The other lived in the top shelf of the cupboard, brought down only when guests came over.

There is a photograph that turns up in almost every family album around wedding season. A grandmother's hands, wrapping a set of tea cup sets or any dinnerware in cotton cloth before packing them off for a daughter's new home.

Who would not agree that the times we have thought to stop typing on those modern typewriters sitting on laptops, ditching the loop of approvals, instant gratifications, and scheduling the next day like a mechanoid and just feel the moments that we often overlook, are uncountable.

Tea is one of those rare things that almost every culture has claimed as its own. The leaves might travel the same route from garden to pot, but the cup that finally touches someone's lips looks nothing alike from one country to the next.

Ever locked your glance at the front of a shelf of gleaming dinnerware and thought why one dinner set is three times more expensive than an almost identical one? If yes, then you are also now an entity of one of the most popular debates in ceramics: ash-free bone china versus traditional bone china.

A lot of people own beautiful dining sets and still manage to make the table look like merely a makeshift or just an afterthought. You know, what disrupts the visual balance?

Every story has different plots, but the same feeling. Sometimes you think to buy a cup saucer set at a store once and put it back because you weren't sure if it was ceramic or porcelain, or whether that even mattered.