Wiebke Meurer’s lace-inspired tableware designs are possibly the most exquisite thing you’d have seen on the table. Inspired by filigree work, the saucers, spoons, tea cups and more, look straight out of a historical romance. Since the tableware gets stripped of most of its utility, for the filigree wouldn’t allow the cups or spoons to hold any liquids, the designs are described as deconstructive art. Meurer who mainly works with porcelain, precious metals, and other natural resources, says she likes to use tradition as the starting point for her creation, but then deconstruct the objects for the creation of something finer, “to reach the heart of its integrity and reinvent it, both formally and functionally.” Meurer is a trained jewelry and object designer who has had her work exhibited at distinguished places ranging from Stedelijk Museum to Saatchi Gallery in London to Gustavsberg Konsthall, Sweden, to Art Genève, Switzerland and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
