Whether your kitchen lacks in square footage or offers a vast, open floor plan, storage space is a must, and these tasteful displays are perfect for spotlighting porcelain plates and vintage serving bowls. We’ve scoured the pages of Architectural Digest to find innovative kitchen storage solutions that neatly and elegantly showcase vibrant stoneware and colorful ingredients. From the antique china found in Jim Joseph and Scott Frankel’s upstate New York home to the tomato-jar-lined shelves in Count Benedikt Bolza’s Italy kitchen, these decorative arrangements add character and organization to the heart of your home.
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Antique Wedgwood and Coalport china is stored in the pantry of Jim Joseph and Scott Frankel’s upstate New York hideaway.
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Author and photographer Kelly Klein outfitted her Palm Beach, Florida, kitchen with a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Wolf range, and shelving to display stoneware.
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At Count Benedikt Bolza’s home in Umbria, Italy, the kitchen shelves are lined with jars of peeled tomatoes from the family’s garden.
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Renowned piano duo and sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque display colorful stoneware above a kitchen cabinet made of reclaimed 17th-century wood in their apartment in Rome designed by Axel Vervoordt.
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Decorator Rela Gleason’s kitchen in Calistoga, California, features stainless-steel islands and wood shelving.
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Dishes and platters passed down through Andrea Anson’s and Gordon McCollum’s families fill a 19th-century Welsh dresser in the couple’s New York City kitchen.
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Architect and decorator David Mann equipped a kitchen with custom-made stainless-steel cabinetry and counters that he offset with walnut shelves.
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To provide a handsome focal point in the storage pantry of a South Carolina kitchen, decorator Barbara Westbrook backed open shelving with a slab of Italian marble.
At the Los Angeles home of interior designer Brigette Romanek, a large shelving unit displays china and glassware. The burl-wood kitchen island features a marble top and a Wolf warming drawer and microwave.
At a Southampton, New York, home renovated by interior designer David Netto and architect David Hottenroth, tiles custom made by Tile Guild based on Gio Ponti designs animate the kitchen and complement the white shelving. The kitchen is appointed with pendant lights by Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co., a hood custom made by RangeCraft, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Wolf range, and a pair of BassamFellows tractor stools from Design Within Reach.
Dodie Thayer lettuceware enlivens a kitchen shelf in Christopher Spitzmiller’s upstate New York farmhouse .
Counters of reclaimed mahogany top pine cabinetry in the kitchen of Amanda Brooks’s English country house . The range is by Lacanche, and the brass sink fittings are by Barber Wilsons & Co.
At a Hudson Valley compound designed by architect Toshiko Mori, white cabinetry and a backsplash of back-painted glass lend a sleek look to the main house's kitchen, which is outfitted with a Miele cooktop, oven, and integrated dishwasher; the Boffi sinks have Vola fittings.
At the Martha's Vineyard summer home of Lynn Forester de Rothschild and her husband, Sir Evelyn, the kitchen's pot rack is from Ann-Morris, the reclaimed-oak open shelves feature brackets by Rocky Mountain Hardware, and the backsplash tile and farmhouse sink are by Waterworks; a Ralph Lauren Paint white was used on the Rivkin/Weisman Architects–designed cabinetry, and the antique granite flooring is from Exquisite Surfaces.
The well-used kitchen at photographer and antiques dealer Matthias Vriens-McGrath’s Los Angeles home contains a collection of antique majolica pitchers and Paola Navone woven-ceramic bowls.
Concrete countertops and shelving complement reclaimed-wood cabinet fronts in the kitchen of Anderson Cooper’s home in the Brazilian town of Trancoso; the framed artwork is a Ghanaian Asafo flag, and the hanging lantern is vintage.