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This year, our favorite dinnerware and table linens are inspired by museum-worthy artwork, glassware is designed by a mixologist at one of London’s chicest bars, and chopsticks are given a French flatware twist. All together, the 2025 Domino Good Design Award winners in the Dining category make up an entire table setting, and then some.
Best Table Linens: Kpoikpoi Collection by The Met x Bolé Road Textiles
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, which showcases the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania, reopened this year with a fresh perspective on works in the collection. To mark the occasion, Hana Getachew of Bolé Road Textiles developed two sets of table linens, each inspired by an African textile on display. For the Kpoikpoi collection, named after Sierra Leone’s prestige hangings, Getachew reinterpreted the traditional geometric motif in vivid shades of persimmon, pink, and teal.
Best Dinnerware: The Matisse Collection by East Fork Pottery
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the organic forms of Henri Matisse’s work are a natural pairing with East Fork Pottery’s down-to-earth ceramics. It was a predestined partnership: East Fork founder Alex Matisse is the artist’s great-grandson. Matisse’s cutouts and drawings adorn platters, plates, and mugs, or you can keep it simple with solid-color dinnerware awash in La Sirène, a deep oceanic blue.
Best Revival: Studio Mug by Heath x Herman Miller
Two icons of American midcentury design and craft—Herman Miller and Heath Ceramics—teamed up to produce Gathered, a seven-piece tabletop collection that pulls from the former’s color theory and the latter’s archival designs and glazes. The standout is the quirky-handled Studio Mug, a reintroduction of an Edith Heath creation from the 1950s, available in four tonal shades of yellow.
Best Glassware: Bar Giani Collection by Nude Glass
Mixologist Giorgio Bargiani serves many a martini at London’s dazzling Connaught Bar, night after night. Naturally, he came to have ideas about what makes a good glass. His collaboration with Nude Glass serves up striking yet elegant silhouettes that are versatile enough for fancy cocktails or a little sparkling water.
Best Flatware: Bistrot Chopsticks by Sabre
The Parisian brand Sabre’s Bistrot flatware is a design classic, and a treat to eat with. Now, the French maker has added chopsticks in a rainbow of colors to the collection. They’re sold separately, so you can mix and match to create a personalized place setting.