So I’m a bit of a bandit for homewares and a stickler for proper deportment so when both are combined I think I might just explode! Artist Emma Houlston has created a set of plates for design collective, Narrative entitled ‘Harrow Ladies Luncheon Club’ that are illustrated with lessons in good table manners from stern-looking matriarchs.
According to Houlston, they are “a series of plates inspired equally by meals with my gran and scenes of the immaculately dressed Harrow Ladies Luncheon Club as featured in John Betjamen’ s Metroland (1970). Either follow their rules or flaunt a total lack of respect by eating your TV dinner off one of these porcelain beauties.”
A set of six 26.5 cm English bone china plates costs £140 and can take between three and four weeks to be delivered. It’s like your nan says: good things come to those who wait.
Published on 14 August 2010 by Agony Uncle