Once in a while, a piece or a line of white dinnerware comes along that is thoughtful, imaginative and offers something different that adds to the total presentation effort. Such is the case with Tognana Porcelaine's Graffiti
line of dinnerware. The rim on Graffiti has a matte finish, with raised relief concentric circles. Tognana offers Graffiti in all the traditional foodservice items (stack cups), but it also has a fantastic line of nouvelle cuisine bowls with oversized rims which provide a great showcase to the matte finished rims.  This nouvell cuisine bowl comes in 5 sizes form 10.75" down to 4"

Tognana Pocelaine has been producing dinnerware for restaurants and hotels for over two hundred years. Their products stand up easily to the rigors of dishwashing, chipping, and scratching that can occur in the foodservice industry. You can see the entire line of Tognana products at www.TognanaUSAinc.com and they will be exhibiting at the upcoming New York tabletop show at the 7 W. 34th Street building (6th floor) along with showing at the NRA Show in Chicago in May.

While we're not huge fans of undecorated china (we think it often shows a lack of imagination), there are times and places where it works well. For instance, in this photo, the spices provide a great colorful component and work great agsint the "canvas" of plain white of each of the ceramic spoons. Then, when displayed on the wood background, a third texture is brought into play. Here's a case where plain white works.