{"id":18513,"date":"2010-08-20T04:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=18513"},"modified":"2010-09-07T02:33:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:33:19","slug":"mexicon-platters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/mexicon-platters\/","title":{"rendered":"MexICON Platters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Slim? Ver\u00c3\u00b3nica Castro? Maybe you&#8217;re familiar with these names, maybe not. But these MexICON Platters from the design studio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dfcasa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">DFC<\/a> sure steal my heart quicker than any <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fornasetti.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" >Fornasetti<\/a> piece I&#8217;ve seen. Originally DFC founders Tony Moxham and Mauricio Paniagua conceived this series as homage to Fornasetti, and used famous Mexican pop icons in place of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fornasetti\" target=\"_blank\" >Fornasetti&#8217;s ubiquitous choice<\/a>. The group includes faces of poet Pita Amor, telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, eyepatch-wearing \u00e2\u20ac\u212270s soap star Catalina Creeland, architect Luis Barrag\u00c3\u00a1n, and actors Andr\u00c3\u00a9s Garc\u00c3\u00ada and Ver\u00c3\u00b3nica Castro. I&#8217;d say any one of them is a safe bet for jazzing up your tabletop.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nPiero Fornasetti (November 10, 1913-1988) &#8216;created more than 11,000 items, many featuring the face of a woman, operatic soprano Lina Cavalieri, as a motif. Fornasetti found her face in a 19th century magazine. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What inspired me to create more than 500 variations on the face of a woman?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d asks Italian designer, Piero Fornasetti of himself. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he admits, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I began to make them and I never stopped.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8217; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fornasetti\" target=\"_blank\" >wikipediea.org <\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlos Slim? Ver\u00c3\u00b3nica Castro? Maybe you&#8217;re familiar with these names, maybe not. But these MexICON Platters from the design studio DFC sure steal my heart quicker than any Fornasetti piece I&#8217;ve seen. Originally DFC founders Tony Moxham and Mauricio Paniagua conceived this series as homage to Fornasetti, and used famous Mexican pop icons in place [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,129,128],"tags":[140,447],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}