SCENE AROUND: Amalfi Rose Gold Dinnerware

Earthy and elegant at the same time, the new Amalfi Rose Gold dinnerware collection from celebrated Great Barrington, Mass.-based designer and sculptor Michael Wainwright [“Table Toppings” by Charlie Cameron, June 2008] is a surefire stunner.

“My pieces tend to trend with what’s going on in fashion,” Wainwright says. “Right now rose gold is really hot.”

Though he’s long decorated his handmade dishes with signature platinum and 24-karat-gold glazes, Wainwright faced a challenge upfront. “Rose gold doesn’t exist” as a glaze, he explains. “So I had to experiment and make it myself. I’m red-green colorblind, so my first samples were green! But that’s the fun part—the experimentation.”

Available on twenty-plus plates, bowls, and picture frames in the Amalfi crackle finish, the subdued metallic shade also adorns (as does platinum) Wainwright’s new Luna collection of platters, chargers, bowls, and serving pieces, featuring hand-tooled cutouts and piercings along their edges.
“We sculptors like to talk about negative space,” Wainwright quips. Yet one glimpse of his posh union of tone and texture prove that these functional works of art are positively spectacular. [SEPTEMBER 2010]

THE GOODS

Michael Wainwright
Jenifer House Commons
420 Stockbridge Rd./Route 7
Great Barrington, Mass.
413.644.0070