Stripe Tease

Kate Spade's playful dinnerware

Photograph: Leonard Gertz
Shelf: West Elm
Kate Spade dinnerware brings the accessories designer's taste for playful elegance to the table. Her Cays Stripe fine china is banded with bright mix-and-match stripes equally at home in formal and informal settings. Salad plates, $17 each, and dinner plates, $25 each, at Kate Spade, 101 E. Oak St.

 

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